Bespoke software development
Custom systems built around how your business actually works — not around the shape of an off-the-shelf licence.
- Typical scope
- 3–9 months
- Team
- 3–6 people
- Pricing
- Fixed price or sprint
- You own
- Code, data, infra
The premise
Packaged software is a good deal until the day your process stops matching it. Then you pay twice: once for the licence, and again for the workarounds, the spreadsheets on the side, and the person whose job is to reconcile the two.
Bespoke means we model your operation as it is, build the smallest system that removes the manual work, and leave you owning the code, the data and the pipeline that ships it.
The parts of the work
Discovery and written scope
We sit with the people doing the work, time the steps, and write a scope you can hold us to. If the numbers say the project should not be built, we say so.
Product and platform build
Web applications, internal tools, back-office platforms, APIs and integrations with the ERP, CRM or accounting system already in place.
Legacy replacement
Strangler-pattern migrations off ageing systems, one module at a time, with both versions running in parallel until the numbers match.
Handover and maintenance
Documented architecture, CI/CD, monitoring, and a support agreement — or a clean handover to your internal team if you would rather run it yourselves.
Five steps, and what you hold at the end of each
Frame
Two to five days on-site or on-call, mapping the process and the cost of the current one.
Scope, budget, risk list
Shape
Architecture, data model and clickable flows for the screens that carry the value.
Prototype + architecture note
Build
Two-week sprints, a staging release at the end of every one, no invisible months.
Working release each sprint
Land
Rollout one team or depot at a time, with the old process running alongside until trust is earned.
Production system, trained users
Stay
Support, iteration and a roadmap owned jointly, because the first release is the beginning of the value.
SLA and quarterly plan
What this looks like in numbers
−85%
Manual data entry removed on fleet SaaS
100%
Scoped in writing before the first invoice
2 wk
Sprint cadence with a demo every time
50+
Systems shipped since 2017
Asked first, every time
Fixed price or time and materials?
Both, and we will tell you which fits. Well-understood scopes go fixed price. Open-ended platform work goes sprint-based with a capped budget and a monthly stop point.
Who owns the code?
You do, from the first commit. Repositories are yours, hosted in your organisation where you have one.
Tell us what you’re trying to ship
A first call is thirty minutes and costs nothing. Bring the problem, not a spec — working out what to build is the part we are good at.
Or email office@symphonyapps.ro. We reply within one business day, in English or Romanian.