02 — Build

Sized by the misfit.
Not by your company.

Your business runs on software. Shouldn't the software fit the business? We build what your process actually needs, at whichever scale it hurts: one workflow, one system or the platform itself. Delivered in months, not years. Owned outright.

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Three scales

Process. System. Platform.

I

Process Build

2–8 weeks 2–3 senior

The misfit

One workflow stitched across three to five tools. One team bending its process to a near-fit SaaS. The duct tape works, but somebody maintains it daily.

What you end with

One owned tool that replaces the stitch. The workflow runs the way the team actually works: no glue, no swivel-chair, no per-seat fees.

Examples

  • Campaign operations tool replacing a five-tool marketing stitch
  • Sales pipeline shaped to how the team actually sells, not a CRM's object model
  • The operational spreadsheet layer, replaced by software that owns its data
II

System Build

2–6 months 3–5 senior

The misfit

An operational system that runs a department: rented, near-fit and taxing the operation every day it stays. The customisation quote rivals the cost of building.

What you end with

An owned system shaped to the department's real process. The operations tax drops in the first quarter.

Examples

  • ATS processing thousands of CVs daily, integrated with your ERP
  • Order management, inventory orchestration, fulfilment routing, shaped to your flow
  • A painful SaaS tool replaced outright with a fit-built alternative you own
III

Platform Build

6–18 months 4–8 senior

The misfit

The platform the business runs on no longer matches the business. Every department has its workaround. The vendor's roadmap is not your roadmap.

What you end with

The platform your operation actually needs: multi-site, integrated, owned outright. Your roadmap, your data, your asset on the balance sheet.

Examples

  • Property management platform built around your portfolio and tenants
  • ERP extension or replacement designed around your supply chain
  • Industry-vertical platform where no vendor fits your market

Not sure which scale you're at? That's exactly what the two-week Fit Assessment answers, before you commit to anything.

How we deliver

Four phases. No big-bang reveal.

Phase 1 · 2 weeks

Fit Assessment

Discovery, scoping, architecture at proposal level. You get a written diagnosis whether or not we proceed.

Phase 2 · 2–4 weeks

Design & Architecture

Detailed technical design: a package you can review, approve or take elsewhere.

Phase 3 · scale-dependent

Build

Small senior AI-augmented team. Two-week sprints. Working software shipping every sprint, no big-bang reveal.

Phase 4 · 2–4 weeks

Handover

Code to your repositories, infrastructure to your cloud, documentation and knowledge transfer. Optional 3–6 month support tail.

The team model

Small. Senior. AI-augmented.

No junior army, no offshore pyramid. Every engineer is senior and orchestrates AI agents daily: the agents handle the volume, the engineers handle the judgment. That's where the timeline compression comes from and why a team of four ships what bigger teams can't.

The handover

Owned outright.

Code in your repositories. Infrastructure in your cloud. Documentation, test suites, runbooks and knowledge transfer included. No licence fees, no per-user pricing, no Insightive dependency. If we disappeared the day after handover, your software wouldn't notice.

Start where it hurts.

A Fit Assessment is two weeks: we map the misfit, price it and return a recommendation you can act on, at whichever scale it lands.

Book a Fit Assessment