Custom software for mid-sized companies, built around your workflows
Standard software fits as long as your process is standard. Where the process sets you apart from competitors, or where your team works around its tools with spreadsheets, custom software pays off. Sortia Labs builds it for mid-sized companies, at a fixed price or agile, and documents it so that another team could carry on with it.
- Custom software
- Bespoke software
- Mid-sized companies
- Replace spreadsheets
- Fixed price available
What companies use custom software for
Your core process
Quote calculation, dispatch, inspection workflows or project billing: where your know-how lives, the software follows your rules instead of forcing you into the logic of a standard product.
An end to spreadsheet islands
When every department keeps its own list, it is often unclear which number is right. One shared application with a database, permissions and history replaces the lists, and the usual reports remain available as exports.
An add-on to standard software
Your ERP or accounting stays; a lean application fills the gap next to it and exchanges data through interfaces. That is often cheaper and easier to maintain than deep customising of the standard product.
Roles, approvals, records
Who may enter data, who approves, who only reads? A four-eyes principle, approval levels and a history of every change help with internal reviews and in talks with auditors.
Automating recurring work
Reports, imports, reminders and documents that someone puts together by hand today are produced by the software itself. Where texts or receipts need to be read, AI can help; the final check stays with a person.
How your workflow becomes software
- 1
Capture the workflow
We sit down with the people who do the work today and write down how it really runs, including exceptions, workarounds and the steps that take the most time.
- 2
A first useful version
Instead of planning everything at once, we define a first version that already saves work in daily use. A clickable prototype shows in advance how it will be operated.
- 3
Fixed price or agile
If the scope is clear after the prototype, we quote a fixed price for that version. If requirements are still moving, we work agile by effort and show working interim versions regularly.
- 4
Hand-over or operation
You receive the source code, documentation and credentials. We run the system if you want, or your IT takes over, and we stay available for extensions.
Software we build and run ourselves.
Questions about Custom software
Custom software or standard software?
Three questions help you decide. Does your process run differently from your competitors'? Does your team work around the standard software? Would licences and customising cost more over a few years than a solution of your own? If you answer yes more than once, a closer look is worthwhile.
Who owns the software?
You do. On acceptance the source code, documentation and credentials pass to you, and you pay us no licence fees. You can develop the software further yourself, hand it to another provider or keep working with us.
How long does a project take?
That depends on the scope of the first version. Because we deliver in stages, your team works with real interim versions early instead of waiting months for one big deadline. We agree the schedule for the first version together after the prototype.
What if our requirements change?
That is normal and planned for. After each stage you decide again what comes next. With a fixed price we agree changes as separate packages priced in advance; when working agile, you simply shift the priorities.
Read on.
Tell us about the workflow that slows you down.
A short paragraph is enough: what happens today, with which programs and where it gets stuck. We suggest what a first version could look like.