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Araxys

What we buildCustom Software

Software shaped around the process you already run well

Off-the-shelf products encode one opinion about how the work should be done. Where yours differs, the gap becomes permanent manual effort — a spreadsheet beside the system, forever. Purpose-built software closes it, and you own the result.

Internal tool — interface walkthrough

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The terms of the engagement

Yours
100%
Source in your repository from the first commit. No licence, no lock-in.
To architecture
2 wks
A documented design and a fixed price, before any code is written.
Deployment
Your cloud
Runs in your accounts, under your controls and your data residency.
Per-seat fees
0
Cost tracks usage and support, never how many people log in.

01What we build, and how you get it

Built to be handed over, not to create dependency

The measure of this work is whether your team could take it forward without us. Everything we produce is aimed at that outcome from the first week.

Your Application
Your team uses an application built by Araxys, comprising its interface, business logic and data layer. It connects to your systems of record, AI services, database and identity provider, and the entire source lives in your own repository.

What we build

Applications that sit where no product fits — usually because your process is the thing that makes you competitive.

Internal operations tools
The system your team runs the business in, replacing the spreadsheet everyone actually uses.
Customer-facing portals
Self-service for your clients, connected live to the systems that hold the real data.
AI-native applications
Products where retrieval, agents or voice are the core of the workflow, not a bolted-on panel.
Data and reporting products
Interfaces over your operational data that reconcile, refresh and can be trusted in a board pack.

What you receive

Not a black box. Everything required for a competent engineer to pick it up cold.

The source, from day one
Your repository, your history — not a delivery dropped at the end of the engagement.
Tests and evaluations
A suite that proves it works and catches regressions, so changes are safe to make.
Architecture and runbooks
Why it is built this way, how it deploys, and what to do at 3am when something breaks.
Enablement
Your team walked through the codebase and the deployment until they can operate it unaided.

02How it is delivered

Nothing is built before the expensive decisions are settled

  1. 01

    Discovery

    We sit with the people doing the work and map the process as it genuinely runs, not as the handbook describes it.

  2. 02

    Architecture

    Data model, integrations, security and failure modes decided on paper, while changing our mind is still free.

  3. 03

    Two-week increments

    Working software every fortnight, used by real people, with direction corrected by what they actually do.

  4. 04

    Integration

    Wired into your systems of record with your existing permissions mirrored rather than reinvented.

  5. 05

    Deployment

    Into your environment, with monitoring, alerting and a tested rollback before the first real user.

  6. 06

    Handover

    Documentation, walkthroughs and support sized to what is actually running — not a retainer by default.

03The hard parts

Why custom software gets a bad reputation

Bespoke projects fail in predictable ways. Being explicit about them up front is most of the fix.

  • 01

    Scope with no edges

    Open-ended builds drift until the budget runs out. Work is quoted as fixed-scope phases against an agreed architecture, so you approve cost per phase rather than signing a blank cheque.

  • 02

    The 90%-done project

    Shipping in two-week increments that real people use means value arrives continuously. There is no six-month gap ending in a launch that misses the point.

  • 03

    Nobody can maintain it

    Conventional stack, ordinary patterns, tests and documentation. We optimise for the engineer who inherits this, not for how clever it looks.

  • 04

    Dependency by design

    Some firms leave you unable to change anything without them. Handover is a deliverable here, and we would rather you did not need us next year.

  • 05

    Built for the demo

    Software that works on clean data and collapses on yours. We build against your real data and real edge cases from the first increment.

  • 06

    Security as an afterthought

    Authentication, authorisation, audit and data handling are architectural decisions made in week two — not a penetration test panic before launch.

04Where it earns its place

When the spreadsheet beside the system is the real system

If your team has quietly built a workaround that the official tool cannot support, that workaround is a specification.

  • Replacing the critical spreadsheet

    The shared workbook the business depends on, rebuilt with validation, history and concurrent access.

  • Operations consoles

    One screen across systems that were never designed to be used together.

  • Client portals

    Status, documents and requests self-served, cutting the email that consumes your team's day.

  • Quoting and configuration

    Complex pricing rules encoded once, so quotes are consistent and no longer tribal knowledge.

  • Compliance workflows

    Evidence, approvals and audit trails captured as work happens rather than reconstructed later.

  • AI-native products

    Where retrieval, agents or voice are the product itself, not a feature added to something existing.

Screenshot — in context

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Screenshot — result

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05FAQ

What teams ask before they commit

  • Usually you should buy. For anything commodity — email, accounting, payroll, CRM — a product will beat a build comfortably, and we will tell you so. Building earns its place where the process is genuinely yours, where the gap between the product and your workflow is being paid for daily in manual effort, or where that process is a competitive advantage you should not standardise away.

Next Step

Let's build your next system.

Bring us the process costing your team the most hours. We'll tell you honestly which parts are worth automating.

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  • Fixed-scope phases
  • You own the source
  • NDA on request
  • No obligation