SaaS development
Turn your software
into a subscription business.
We build software-as-a-service products that customers sign up to and pay for monthly, from a first version that proves demand to the full platform, with accounts, billing and security done properly.
Sound familiar?
- You have built a tool for yourself and other businesses keep asking to buy it.
- Your MVP worked, and now it needs accounts, teams and billing to become a business.
- Each new customer means a new copy of the software to set up and maintain.
- Getting paid is manual: invoices, reminders and switching access on and off by hand.
- Larger customers ask about security, permissions and single sign-on, and you have no answer.
- The product has outgrown its first build and is getting slower and harder to change.
SaaS (software as a service) means customers sign up online, pay a subscription and use your product in their browser. Behind that simple experience sits the machinery that makes it a business: customer accounts, teams, billing, permissions, and keeping each customer's data safely separate.
We build SaaS products for founders and businesses, from a first version that proves people will pay, to the full platform it becomes. We build all of it: the feature your customers pay for, and the accounts, subscription billing and security underneath it, so adding your next customer costs nothing but their sign-up.
It is work we know from the inside. We run our own SaaS products, including Scout and Time Hive, on the same foundations we build for clients.
What we build
- Customer accounts and teams
- Each customer gets their own secure space, with team members and roles, so you can sell to real organisations from day one.
- Subscription billing
- Trials, plans, per-seat or usage pricing, automatic renewals and failed-payment chasing, with access that follows payment on its own.
- Security and permissions
- Sign-up, single sign-on, roles and fine-grained permissions done properly, so the right people see the right things and nothing leaks between customers.
- From first version to platform
- Start with the one feature that proves demand, then grow it into the full product on the same foundations, with no rebuild when it takes off.
- Tools to run the business
- Admin dashboards, onboarding, support tools and usage insight, so you can see how customers use the product and help them quickly.
- Fast, reliable and looked after
- Performance and reliability built in; hosted, monitored and improved by us, or handed to your own team as clean, documented code.
How it works
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Shape the product
1 to 2 weeks
We agree who the customers are, what they pay for and how pricing should work, then plan the first version around it.
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Launch a first paying version
A few weeks to a few months
The core feature, wrapped in accounts, billing and the essentials, live for your first customers at a fixed price.
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Grow with your customers
Ongoing releases
Regular releases driven by what customers use and ask for, with the platform scaling as sign-ups grow.
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Run it with you
Retainer
We host, monitor and support the platform on a retainer, or hand it to your in-house team when you're ready.
Work we've shipped
Questions people ask
What does SaaS development involve?
Building a software-as-a-service product means more than the features customers see. It needs customer accounts, secure separation between customers, subscription billing, roles and permissions, and the day-to-day running to keep it reliable. We build all of it, designed so that adding your next customer costs nothing but their sign-up.
How do you build a SaaS MVP?
We start with the one feature your product must nail, wrap it in the minimum accounts, billing and security it needs, and get it live for early customers. That MVP then grows into the full platform on the same foundations, with no rebuild.
How much does SaaS development cost?
The first version is a fixed price, typically around £10k to £15k, so you know exactly what it costs. After that, most clients move onto a retainer that covers both support and ongoing development. If you prefer to work in cycles, we quote per cycle (a milestone or a new version) on top of a minimum retainer. You are never locked into one opaque number for a year of work.
Can you build B2B software for teams and organisations?
Yes. Separate customer spaces, team accounts, role-based access, per-seat or usage billing and admin tooling are our standard foundations, not add-ons. That is exactly what business customers expect before they sign up.
Do you handle billing and subscriptions?
Yes. We use proven billing providers, usually Stripe, for subscriptions, trials, usage billing and failed-payment chasing, connected to your product so access follows payment automatically.
Will we own the platform?
Unless we agree otherwise, you own the code, built on mainstream technology chosen to grow with your customer base. We can host, monitor and keep shipping, or hand it to your in-house team, with no lock-in either way. In some engagements we instead license the application to you on a minimum term, and we make clear which model applies before we start.
Let's talk
Tell us what you
need built.
Book a call. We'll ask about the problem, tell you honestly whether we're the right people, and scope what we'd build.