Southampton · Software & IT consultancy
Ours don't. We build the thing you actually asked for, put it in front of you inside four weeks, and stay on the hook once it is live.
Who you'd be hiring
Ventirotech is run by Sp Systems & Technology Ltd, a small software firm working out of Southampton. Most of our clients are owner-managed businesses between five and two hundred staff, and most of them come to us with something half-built.
The first two years we took anything that paid. That was a mistake. We spent eight months on a logistics platform for a client who rewrote the brief every fortnight, and we let them, because we wanted the invoice more than we wanted the argument. It went live nine months late. Almost nobody used it. We wrote off the last £6,400 and started saying no.
What changed was the order of things. We scope hard before we quote, and we put working software in front of you in week four rather than month nine. If the shape is wrong you find out while it is still cheap to change.
We don't do fixed-price builds off a brief written in one meeting. We don't take projects where nobody on your side is allowed to make a decision. And we won't hand over a repository and vanish: if we built it, we keep it running.
Half this job is infrastructure nobody wants to think about until it stops. We audit what you are actually running before we propose anything, because a clever application on a server in a cupboard with untested backups is still one flood away from gone.
Four weeks in, you get something you can open, click and break. Not a slide deck, and not a discovery phase that quietly renews itself every quarter. If it isn't useful to you by then, stop paying us.
What you can buy
Prices are starting points for UK work, quoted properly once we have scoped it. Everything below is billed against a written estimate, never an open clock.
Two weeks pulling the brief apart, mapping your data and telling you what the build will genuinely cost. The documents are yours whether or not you hire us to write the code.
Web applications, internal tools, client portals and the unglamorous back-office systems that run a business. Delivered in fortnightly increments you can log into.
Getting your CRM, accounts package and stock system to stop disagreeing about the same customer. Usually the cheapest problem on this list to fix, and the one costing you the most.
Off the box under the stairs and onto AWS or Azure, with restores we have actually run rather than assumed. Includes a rollback plan you could execute without us.
Two days a month of somebody who has shipped before. Vendor calls, architecture decisions, reviewing the quote another agency just sent you, and hiring your first developer.
Patching, uptime alerting and a named engineer who answers the phone. Four working hours to first response, thirty days' notice to cancel, no exit fee.
How we work
We go through the brief line by line and delete about a third of it. What survives is the part that earns its keep, and you sign off the cut before anyone writes code.
Data model, integration points and the awkward edge cases your current system quietly ignores. You keep the documents regardless of what happens next.
One real workflow, deployed, running on your data where we can get it. You open it in a browser and tell us everything that is wrong with it.
Monitoring, patches and changes as the business changes. Rolling monthly, thirty days' notice, and we hand over documentation good enough for whoever comes next.
Next step
Half an hour, no charge, and we will tell you plainly if we are the wrong firm for the job. Ring us, email, or leave the details below.
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