Software for the way your business works.
A customer portal with its own approval rules. A research platform built around specialist material. A new product people can subscribe to and use. We design and develop the software that makes these services possible, including the systems behind them.
Scope and price agreed before the build. The first conversation is free.
A closer look at what that can mean
Archivist Lab · Historical research platform
Searchable material, cited reports, maps and timelines come together in one research environment. Readers can follow a question through linked records and back to the evidence behind an answer.
From a research question to a cited analysis
How a research question moves through Archivist Lab, from the question to an analysis that cites its sources.
- 1. The reader starts with a research question rather than a keyword.
- 2. Search, identities, events, relationships and the map work across the whole collection at once.
- 3. The analysis comes back with tables, figures and sources, and each claim links to the passage it came from.
What would your software need to do?
Give customers a place to get things done
Applications, bookings, orders, account information and service requests, with a clear view of what happens next.
Keep a complex operation in order
Assign work, review submissions, control access and follow decisions across the people involved. The rules that matter to your organisation become part of the system.
Turn an idea into a digital product
Build the experience your users see and the administration behind it, from account creation and payments to content and reporting.
Which parts need to be custom?
Existing products may already cover payments, communications or standard business tasks. We work out where they fit and where your requirements call for development.
Using established services for familiar functions can keep the build easier to maintain. We explain the choices, including subscription costs and any dependencies they introduce.
Custom work makes sense when a particular service, workflow or user experience is central to what you want to offer. That decision belongs early, while the scope and budget are still being set.
You should be able to try the work as it develops
We agree the first release, its connections and how it will be reviewed. At planned review points, you use working software and give feedback on the tasks it needs to support.
The scope also sets out deployment, documentation and the support window after launch. Ownership and access are agreed at the start.
If a new request changes the agreed work, we explain the effect on price and timing before you decide to add it.
What would you like your software to make possible?
A short description, a current system or an early sketch gives us somewhere to begin.
Scope and price agreed before the build. The first conversation is free.