The median UK contractor charges £575 a day. Most funded startups spend £30,000–£60,000 on a custom MVP. Here is what determines the price.
Quotes for the same WordPress site run from a few hundred pounds to several thousand. Here is what sets the price, and what it costs to run once it is live.
No-code will carry more of your product than most engineers admit, then stop dead at limits its own documentation already lists. Here is how to tell, before you build, whether your idea sits on the custom-engineering side of that line.
An internal tool takes 8–10 weeks. A complex SaaS platform takes up to 16. The honest answer to 'how long' depends less on your developers than on you.
The £4,500 report that tells you exactly what to build, what it will cost, and whether you should build it at all.
The median UK Seed round is £560,000. Eighty per cent of software features are rarely or never used. Four mistakes explain why funded founders — with budget, validation and a credible CTO — still burn through runway on a platform that ships wrong.
Requirements failure — not coding failure — is the single most documented cause of software project disaster. Here is what to put in the document that prevents it.
SaaS list prices rose 12.2% in 2024 — more than four times general inflation. But "custom is cheaper" is not the same as "custom is right." Here is the honest framework, with the maths and the specific thresholds where the answer changes.