Worktechlabs engineers designing a business system together
About us

Fifteen years building software that stays in service.

Software built around how you already work.

We are a team of developers. Not a consultancy that subcontracts the building, and not an agency that hands over a design and leaves. The people who scope your system are the people who write it and the people who still answer the phone about it three years later.

We work with organisations that have outgrown the software holding their operation together: the spreadsheet nobody dares touch, the licensed product that fits eight of their twelve processes. We replace it with a system shaped around the way the business actually runs.

Senior Worktechlabs engineer reviewing a system design

15+

Years building custom software

40+

Systems in production

10+

Years the oldest system we still maintain has been running

0

Projects subcontracted out

What we are actually trying to do

A solution, not a deliverable

The job is not to ship software. It is for the problem you brought us to stop existing. When the right answer turns out to be a change of process and half a screen, that is what we propose, even though it is the smaller invoice.

The process before the code

Automating a bad process makes it faster, not better. We spend the first weeks learning how the work is done today, and part of what we hand back is a list of the steps that do not need to exist at all.

The working day should not be tedious

People use this software for eight hours a day. Taking the repetitive part out of that day is not a nice extra, it is most of the value. What should be left is the work that needs a person's judgement.

Measured against the business, not the backlog

A project has gone well when the business can do something it could not do before. That is the conversation at the start, and it is the same conversation we come back to at the end.

How we operate

Four commitments on every engagement.

Written scope first

Nothing is developed until the deliverable, the price and the date are agreed in writing.

Weekly releases

Your users operate the system from early in the project, so feedback arrives while it is cheap.

In-house delivery

The engineers who scope the work are the engineers who build it. Nothing is subcontracted.

Long-term support

Systems we delivered a decade ago are still maintained by the same company today.

The technology we build on

We specialise in the Microsoft stack rather than covering everything. Working with one platform is why we can estimate accurately and still support a system years after it went live.

  • .NET
  • C#
  • Azure
  • SQL Server
  • Blazor
  • Angular
  • TypeScript
  • Docker
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Engineering articles from Worktechlabs

Our editorial articles explain engineering decisions behind business software: data ownership, integration, deployment and ongoing operation. They link to technical references and distinguish illustrative examples from named client projects.

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