South West England
Exeter is a cathedral city with the Met Office headquarters, a Russell Group university and a science park for STEMM businesses, so much of its economy runs on data. We build web apps, SaaS products, websites and integrations for Exeter organisations, and deliver each one remotely from scoping to launch.
Local context
The Met Office, the national weather service, has its headquarters on FitzRoy Road in Exeter. Its work spans forecasting, climate research and specialist services for aviation, marine, rail, road, energy and media customers, and that concentration of environmental science has shaped the city's identity. For smaller firms it opens room to build products and consultancy on weather and climate data, or to sell services to the organisations that use it.
The University of Exeter, a Russell Group member, has two of its three campuses in the city and its third at Penryn in Cornwall, with tens of thousands of students and thousands of staff. Exeter Science Park describes itself as the South West's centre of activity for businesses in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine, offering offices and laboratories, a SETsquared incubator and space within the Exeter and East Devon Enterprise Zone.
Exeter is also the administrative heart of Devon. Devon County Council runs county-wide services from County Hall on Topsham Road, so councils, health partners, charities and the advisers who work with them all deal with the city regularly. Add a cathedral that has been at the heart of Devon for nearly a thousand years, and Exeter mixes research, public service and a visitor trade in one compact place.
Sectors
Consultancies and start-ups working with weather, flood or climate information need dashboards, alerting and customer portals that present complex data clearly. We build interfaces that turn model outputs into decisions a client can act on.
Young STEMM companies often need a first product, a customer portal or a lab booking system before they need a full team. We help scope and ship a release that proves the idea without overbuilding.
Councils, health partners and voluntary organisations need accessible forms, case tracking and referral routes that meet WCAG 2.2 and keep personal data tightly controlled.
Law firms, accountants and surveyors serving clients across Devon want secure document exchange, online onboarding and progress updates that cut the number of status-check phone calls.
Shops, restaurants and venues around the cathedral and the city centre benefit from online ordering, table and event booking and loyalty schemes joined up with their tills.
Common requests
A city full of researchers, public servants and specialist consultancies tends to produce briefs that are heavy on data and on access control.
A web interface, API and subscription layer around data you already produce, so customers can self-serve instead of emailing for reports.
Applications, referrals and bookings that work with screen readers and on any phone, with submissions routed straight to the right team.
Secure upload, signatures, messages and status updates, with a clear audit trail of who saw and changed each document.
Shared resources booked online with rules for who can reserve what, plus usage reports for recharging costs between groups.
Clear explanations of complex services for non-specialist buyers, with plain, honest pages and a simple way to start a conversation.
Services
Technical firms in Exeter often struggle to explain what they do in plain English. We build fast, accessible websites that make complex services understandable and turn the right visitors into enquiries.
For research groups, consultancies and public bodies, we build data portals, case management and booking systems with careful permissions and a full record of changes.
Field scientists, surveyors and support workers can use one web app on phones, tablets and laptops, collecting readings or notes offline and syncing them when back in signal.
If your Exeter team has a model, dataset or method other organisations would pay to use, we help package it as a subscription product with accounts, billing and usage limits.
Independent retailers and producers around Exeter get online shops with click-and-collect, delivery zones for Devon and links to their stock and accounts.
We build and connect APIs so forecasts, sensor feeds, CRM records and accounting data move between systems automatically and reliably.
How we work
We serve Exeter organisations without travelling to them. Discovery sessions, design walk-throughs and acceptance reviews happen over video, and the technical detail that research teams care about is written down rather than left in someone's notes after a meeting.
A written proposal fixes scope, milestones and price before development starts. Progress, decisions and every deliverable sit in your client panel, and each milestone is reviewed with you before the next one is opened.
A video call to understand the business, the people who will use the software and what has to change.
Scope, milestones and price in writing. Nothing starts until you accept it.
Each milestone is reviewed with you; progress, files and decisions stay in your client panel.
Go-live when you are ready, then maintenance and hosting if you want them.
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