Custom Software & App Development Services — Perth WA

Which of these do you actually need?

Most enquiries arrive describing a symptom rather than a service — a team re-keying the same data into three systems, a spreadsheet that has quietly become business-critical, an app that passed its last security review two years ago. The mapping is usually straightforward once the symptom is clear:

• Your process does not fit any product you can buy. That is custom software development — a platform built around your workflow instead of a workflow bent around someone's licence terms.
• Your systems each hold part of the truth. That is systems integration: APIs and automated data flows so finance, operations and the field see the same numbers without anyone re-typing them.
• Your people need it in the field, offline. That is app development — iOS, Android and cross-platform builds that keep working past the edge of coverage.
• You have to prove the thing is secure. Before launch that is app security — secure code review and penetration testing; for the infrastructure around it, cloud security and Essential Eight alignment.
• It works, but nobody is watching it. That is cloud maintenance, or managed Linux infrastructure if you would rather own the servers than rent them.
• Everyone is asking what AI means for you. That is AI and automation consulting — a prioritised, vendor-neutral answer rather than a pilot that never ships.

When you need the strategy before the build

Sometimes the honest answer is that nobody yet knows what to build. We run that work as technology consulting — and unlike a firm that only writes reports, we are the team that would implement the recommendation, so the roadmap is costed against what it actually takes to ship.

• IT consulting — independent IT strategy, architecture and roadmaps, with no reseller product list behind the advice.
• Cloud consulting and migration — choosing between AWS, Azure, GCP and private cloud on the merits, then doing the move.
• Data and analytics consulting — pipelines, dashboards and real-time analytics for teams still reconciling by hand.
• Cyber security consulting — Essential Eight, IRAP readiness, penetration testing and independent audits.

What an engagement typically costs

We publish our numbers because vague pricing wastes everyone's time. Custom platform builds start at $30,000 for a focused starter build and run to $1M+ for enterprise programmes. App projects start at $35,000 for an MVP. Security work is smaller and faster: a secure code review from $3,500, a cloud security audit from $5,000. Ongoing infrastructure cover is a retainer from $1,500 per month. Where the scope genuinely is not knowable up front, we start with a paid discovery from around $2,500 and hand you a fixed-price proposal you are free to take elsewhere.

Why a Perth team, specifically

We are in Fremantle, so you get same-timezone support and people who can sit in your office. We have been an approved supplier on the WA Government CUAICTS2021 ICT panel since 2021, which lets agencies engage us through the CUA quote process instead of running an open tender. Everything we build defaults to open source on infrastructure you own, with Australian-resident engineers and Australian data sovereignty — so leaving us stays a decision you can make. The 50+ projects we have delivered since 2013 span government, mining, not-for-profit, education and professional services; if a similar problem has crossed our desk, we will tell you what it actually took.