North West England
Salford has turned old docks into a cluster of digital, creative and media businesses, while freight, health research and new visitor attractions develop around it. We build the web apps, SaaS products, websites and integrations those businesses rely on, and we work with every Salford client remotely.
Local context
MediaCity and The Quays define Salford for many people. The city council's draft local plan sets out to grow the cluster at MediaCityUK and the wider Salford Quays into a high-tech creative hub of international significance, able to attract a very broad range of digital, creative and media-related businesses, with MediaCityUK continuing to expand within the Quays.
Innovation here is not limited to media. MediaCity promotes the Salford Innovation Triangle, a partnership between MediaCity and The Quays, Salford Royal Foundation Trust and the University of Salford that links content, health and academic research. Closer to Manchester city centre, the local plan identifies the River Irwell and Chapel Street corridor for office growth and points to the area beside the university's main campus, near Salford Crescent station, as a place with real potential for start-ups and smaller firms.
Freight and visitors complete the picture. The local plan describes Port Salford as a tri-modal freight interchange that will let goods move by rail and water as well as road, making it a major asset for Greater Manchester. On the leisure side, in Worsley the Royal Horticultural Society has created RHS Garden Bridgewater, a modern garden rooted in a historic setting, which gives cafes, venues and accommodation providers in the west of the city another reason for people to come.
Sectors
Production companies and agencies around MediaCity juggle crews, kit, locations and client approvals. We build scheduling, asset tracking and review tools, and can work behind an agency's brand on its client projects.
Teams working with hospital and university partners need participant portals, consent records and secure data exchange. We design those with strict access control and a full history of who saw or changed what.
With rail, water and road freight converging at Port Salford, operators want booking slots, consignment tracking and customer portals that tie the different legs of a journey together in one record.
Founders near the university and along Chapel Street often have a product idea and a deadline. We help them launch a focused first version, with accounts and billing in place, without overbuilding.
Venues and event organisers across the Quays and beyond need ticketing, timed entry and capacity tools that cope with sell-out days, plus customer messages that reduce queries at the door.
Common requests
Projects from the city cover a wide range, but a handful of briefs come up often enough to be worth naming.
One calendar for people, equipment and rooms, with conflicts flagged before they happen and call sheets generated from the same data.
Cuts, drafts and designs shared through a secure link, with time-stamped comments and a record of exactly which version was signed off.
Design and build work delivered under the agency's own name, so it can offer software projects to clients without hiring a full team.
Participant sign-up, consent, questionnaires and file exchange for studies, with data separated by project and access granted only where needed.
Slot booking, status updates and documents for every consignment, visible to customers through their own login.
Services
In a city full of agencies, your own site is judged harshly. We build fast, accessible sites with service pages written for the buyer, clear calls to action and analytics that show which visits become enquiries.
For Salford teams whose schedules, assets or cases live in shared spreadsheets, we build a single application around the real workflow, with roles that match how responsibility is split.
Crews on location, researchers and warehouse staff can use the same web app on phones, tablets and laptops, installed from the browser and updated for everyone at the same moment.
If your idea has a market beyond your own business, we help ship a first subscription release with sign-up, billing and an admin panel. See SaaS development.
Producers, venues and makers in Salford can sell tickets, merchandise and products from one shop, with delivery, collection and stock rules built for their range.
We connect production, booking, CRM, accounting and freight systems so information passes between them automatically and the same detail is never typed twice.
How we work
Every Salford engagement is handled online. That suits teams who spend their days on shoots, in studios or across several sites: we hold short video check-ins at agreed times, share recorded walkthroughs, and keep designs, builds and decisions together in the client panel.
A written proposal setting out scope, milestones and price comes first, and nothing is developed until you accept it. Each milestone is shown to you and signed off before work moves on, so the project stays visible from the first sketch to launch.
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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FAQ
Prefer to give the full picture? The quote wizard asks about your business, your current systems and what should change, and we reply with a clear, competitive proposal.