We Build Software That Works With You.
Custom Software Development in Melbourne
When an off-the-shelf product will not do the job, that is where we come in. We build everything from small internal tools to large marketplaces and platforms, here in Melbourne, with an in-house team you can actually talk to.
Drop us a lineStrategy First, Then Your Data
Every engagement starts with tech strategy: what needs to exist, why, and for whom. Only once that is settled do we touch the technical foundation, and the smallest building block there is your data. Get that layer right and everything above it stays simple. Get it wrong and no amount of front-end polish saves you later.
From that foundation we build secure APIs, folding in the way your organisation actually works as we go. That gives you software that scales without becoming complicated. Whether it is a web platform, an internal system, or a set of mobile apps, the approach is the same.
The best part: you own all of it. The code, the IP, the infrastructure, the servers, the apps, all of it. That means your company grows with your tech, and if you later build an in-house development team we help hand it over rather than holding onto it.
Not in Melbourne? We work with clients around the country, and there is a page on software development across Australia that covers how that runs, including the onshore versus offshore question and what a build actually costs here.
Strategy comes first, so before we write code we work out what needs building and why. Read more about how we approach tech strategy, or get in touch and tell us what you need built.
Melbourne software we have actually built
A boutique team's portfolio should be readable in an afternoon, so here is ours. We have built and still support a hospital access and compliance platform (AirVendor, since 2016), a clinician and patient health information service (Leaflet, since 2022), and the emergency relief platform behind Community Choice. We spent nearly a decade as the development team for Yume Food, a national surplus food marketplace.
The pattern worth noticing is the dates. These are multi-year relationships on software still in production, not a list of launches. Plenty of our other work sits under agreements we cannot write about, so if you want to know whether we have built something like your thing, ask.
Industries we know
We are not industry-agnostic, whatever that would even mean. Three areas come up repeatedly: healthcare, where compliance and auditability drive the design; not-for-profit and social enterprise, where the budget is finite and the funding acquittal is a requirement rather than an afterthought; and marketplaces and platforms, where both sides have to get value before either side arrives.
A Melbourne team, in the room when it matters
Being local is worth something specific rather than something sentimental. Discovery workshops are materially better in person, and that is the session where the expensive decisions get made. After that, most delivery is the same wherever you are, which is why we can also work with clients interstate. But if you are in Melbourne, we would rather start face to face.
We are in Richmond. We have been in-house since 2016, we are deliberately small, and you talk to the people building your product rather than an account manager. There is more on who we are and on who we are and are not a good fit for.
Custom software in Melbourne: common questions
How much does custom software cost in Melbourne?
Small internal tools can start in the low tens of thousands. Full platforms run well beyond that. Anyone who quotes you a firm number before understanding what you are building and why is guessing, which is why we do strategy first, scope second and quote third.
How long does a custom software build take?
A first usable version is commonly around three months. Larger platforms ship in stages, so you get something real in market early rather than waiting a year for one big release.
Should I build custom software or buy off the shelf?
Buy off the shelf when your process is genuinely the same as everyone else's. Build custom when the way you work is the thing that makes you competitive, or when you are stitching five tools together with spreadsheets and goodwill.
Who owns the software you build for us?
You do, completely. The code, the IP, the servers and the infrastructure. We do not licence it back to you and we do not hold your product hostage.