Custom Software Development
Applications built around the way your business actually runs, not around the limits of an off-the-shelf product.
DetailsSoftware consulting
Software that fits
the way you actually work.
Westedge Technical Services is a software consulting firm. We build the custom applications, mobile apps and CRM, ATS and VMS platforms that businesses run on, and we build them to be understood by whoever comes next.
How we work
- Discovery before estimates
- Working software every sprint
- Full source and access handover
- Direct line to the people building it
The situation
You already know what is broken. You need someone who can fix it.
Most of the companies that call us are not starting from zero. They have systems that work, mostly, held together by exports, macros and one person who knows how it all fits.
That arrangement holds until it does not: the person leaves, the volume doubles, the vendor sunsets the platform, or a customer asks for something the software simply cannot do. Our job is to replace that fragility with something deliberate, and to do it without stopping the business while we work.
Common starting points
- A spreadsheet has quietly become a core business system.
- Two systems hold the same data and disagree about it.
- The application still runs, but nobody left knows how.
- Reporting takes three days and everyone gets a different number.
- A vendor is sunsetting the platform you depend on.
- Growth is capped by manual work nobody has time to automate.
What we do
Eight practices, one team
Most engagements touch more than one of these. You get one team across all of them rather than a handoff between specialists who have never met.
Custom CRM, ATS & VMS Platforms
Recruiting, sales and vendor platforms shaped to your desk process instead of a vendor roadmap you do not control.
DetailsMobile App Development
Native and cross-platform apps for the people doing the work away from a desk.
DetailsWeb Applications & Portals
Fast, accessible, mobile-ready web software that works on the first try for the people who use it all day.
DetailsSystems Integration & APIs
Getting your systems to agree with each other, reliably, without a person re-keying data in between.
DetailsData Engineering & Analytics
One version of the numbers, refreshed on a schedule, that everyone in the room can trust.
DetailsCloud, DevOps & Infrastructure
Deployments that are boring on purpose: repeatable, reversible and monitored.
DetailsLegacy Modernization
Moving critical systems forward without the big-bang rewrite that never lands.
DetailsThe process
No mystery about what happens next
The same four stages on every engagement, whether it is a two-week assessment or a nine-month build.
01
Understand
We start by watching the work happen. Who touches this process, what breaks, what that spreadsheet on the side is really for. Requirements written without that context are guesses.
02
Scope
You get a written plan: what we will build, what we will not, what it costs, and what has to be true for the estimate to hold. Surprises get raised before the work starts, not in the invoice.
03
Build
Short increments with working software at the end of each one. You review real screens against real data instead of approving a document and hoping.
04
Hand Off
Source code, documentation, credentials and a walkthrough for whoever maintains it next. If that is us, good. If it is your team, the handoff still happens.
Ways to work together
Pick the shape that fits the problem
Advisory & Assessment
A short, fixed-fee engagement to answer a specific question: is this architecture going to hold, what will the migration really cost, why is this application slow. You get a written recommendation you can act on with or without us.
Project Delivery
We scope the work, agree on what done looks like, and deliver it in increments you can see and use along the way. Fixed-fee where the scope is clear, time and materials where discovery is part of the job.
Team Augmentation
Senior engineers embedded in your team, working in your repositories, your standups and your process. Useful when you have the roadmap and the domain knowledge but not enough hands.
Support & Managed Services
Ongoing care for software we built or inherited: monitoring, patching, small enhancements and a defined response time when something breaks at 6am.
Technology
Tools chosen for your situation, not our resume
We work across the stacks below, and we pick based on what your team can maintain, what your infrastructure already supports, and what the problem actually needs.
If the right answer is a boring, well-supported technology your team already knows, that is the answer we will give you. Novelty is a cost, and you are the one who pays it after we leave.
Languages
Web
Mobile
Data
Platform
Questions
The things people ask first
How does a project usually start?
With a call. Thirty minutes is normally enough for us to understand the problem and tell you whether we are the right fit. If there is a project there, the next step is a short paid discovery that produces a written scope and a real number.
Do you work fixed-fee or hourly?
Both. Fixed-fee when the scope is well understood and stable, which is fairer to you. Time and materials when discovery is genuinely part of the work, with a not-to-exceed ceiling and weekly reporting so the budget never surprises you.
Who owns the code you write?
You do, on delivery. It lives in your repository, under your accounts, with your credentials. We use open-source and commercially licensed components where it makes sense, and every license is disclosed in writing before it goes in.
Can you work with our existing development team?
Yes, and often that is the better arrangement. We work in your repositories, follow your conventions and join your standups. The goal is to leave your team stronger than we found it, not to build a dependency.