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title: "Web app development"
description: "When off-the-shelf doesn’t cut it."
url: https://www.pivale.co/services/web-apps/
publisher: Pivale (https://www.pivale.co)
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# Web app development

If off-the-shelf tools force you to change how you work, a custom web application cuts the manual effort, connects your systems and grows with you. You own the code.

| | |
|---|---|
| Typical builds | Portals, dashboards, workflow and compliance tools |
| Approach | API-first, with automated tests on each build |
| You own | The code and the roadmap |
| Trusted by | M&S, In-Space Missions and Argus |

## The problem: Outgrowing off-the-shelf?

Your subscription software sets limits, adds third-party risk and forces your processes into someone else’s shape. Your team fills the gaps with spreadsheets.

- **Juggling systems:** Staff copy data between tools that don’t talk to each other.
- **Working the software’s way:** You changed how you work to fit the software.
- **Manual effort:** Your team repeats admin that software could handle.
- **Hitting limits:** Performance and pricing stop scaling with you.

## How we help: Move fast and don’t break things.

You show us how the business runs. Together we set priorities, then build in short iterations alongside your team, so you stay in control.

1. **Map:** Find the workflows, data and inefficiencies worth fixing.
2. **Prioritise:** Agree a focused first release and the roadmap beyond it.
3. **Build:** See progress each sprint, backed by automated tests and continuous deployment.
4. **Grow:** Add features, integrations and hardening as usage grows.

## What changes: Value, delivered.

- **1** platform for M&S food technologists, auditors and suppliers
- **Minutes** to roll out a change on In-Space Missions’ platform once their team has verified it
- **0** licence fees, because you own the software

## Proof

In-Space Missions: Mission control in a browser The problem: Customers needed to control their satellites, and no existing software fitted In-Space's business rules. The solution: An API-first customer data portal with a web interface, a REST API and automated access tests. The outcome: Live before the Faraday-1 satellite launched, with changes released in minutes. Read the case study: https://www.pivale.co/work/in-space-missions

> Pivale have been excellent at working in partnership with us to design our customer facing frontend in an agile manner that has been shaped during the development and operational phase. They have helped identify the appropriate technologies at each stage and have provided a pragmatic, cost-effective solution that we have been able to build together to deliver value to our customers.

— Andy Schofield, Principal Ground Systems Engineer, In-Space Missions

## Related

- [Portals & intranets](https://www.pivale.co/solutions/portals-intranets): Custom systems that support daily operations.
- [Integrations](https://www.pivale.co/services/integrations): CRM, ERP and DAM connections you can trust.
- [Artificial intelligence](https://www.pivale.co/services/ai): AI that works for you and keeps you in control.

Working around your software? Let’s build what fits.

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Source: https://www.pivale.co/services/web-apps/. Pivale is a UK digital consultancy. Book a 30-minute call at https://www.pivale.co/contact/ or email hello@pivale.co.