Cost & Budgeting
Centricone TechnologiesSoftware Management
Custom software development for the systems your revenue runs on
Centricone Technologies designs, builds, and looks after custom applications: the internal platform holding your operation together, the customer-facing product you sell, and the integrations between them. Product development services from one team, first prototype to long-term support.
Software is only delivered when someone else can change it. Every engagement leaves you with tests, documentation, and a repository your own team can pick up.
24/7
support coverage across US and Canada time zones
100%
of code reviewed, tested, and documented before release
The software that runs the business is the software nobody can change
01
Every change takes a quarter
Untested code and a build only one person understands mean a small feature carries a large risk, so the roadmap stops moving.
02
Off-the-shelf almost fits
Licences are paid, workarounds are documented in a spreadsheet, and the process the business actually runs still lives outside the system.
03
The original team is gone
No documentation, no tests, and a dependency list years out of date — every fix starts with an archaeology dig.
for teams whose systems have to keep working
Centricone covers discovery and architecture, the build itself, the integrations either side of it, and the maintenance agreement after launch.
Stack
What we build with
Frontend
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- React Native
- Flutter
- Tailwind CSS
Backend
- Node.js
- Python
- Java
- .NET
- Go
- GraphQL
- REST
Data and delivery
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- AWS
- Azure
How a software engagement runs
1
Discovery with the people doing the work
The workflow, the edge cases, the systems either side, and what would make it obviously better. Scope written down and priced.
2
Architecture and a first working increment
A decision record you own, then something running in a fortnight — narrow, but real, and in your hands.
3
Sprints against a visible backlog
Working software every sprint, tests alongside it, and a demo you can interrupt.
4
Launch, then support
Handover with documentation and repository access, and a maintenance agreement if you want us to keep carrying it.
Why teams choose Centricone as their product development company
Senior engineers on the build, not just on the pitch
Tests and documentation as deliverables, not extras
You own the code, the repository, and the decisions
US and Canada time-zone overlap, with senior contacts
What teams get out of it
A system that can keep changing
Tested, documented, and owned by you — so the second year of changes costs less than the first rather than more.
Fits the actual process
Built around the work, not a package's guess
Releases without drama
Automated tests and a repeatable pipeline
Integrated systems
One source of truth instead of four
No lock-in
Your repository, your cloud, your decisions
Moving a live store to headless commerce?
How we plan the migration as a series of reversible cutovers — catalogue and checkout integration, SEO-safe routing, and a rollback at every step — on the headless commerce replatforming page.
Frequently asked questions
Still weighing it up? Book a free consultation and we’ll scope it with you.
It scales with scope, integrations, and compliance load rather than with screens. A focused internal tool is a different order of magnitude from a multi-tenant platform with audit requirements. We publish how the variables move the number in our guide to custom software development cost, and the written estimate after a discovery call is free.
Buy when the process is genuinely standard and the package fits without a spreadsheet of workarounds. Build when the process is how you compete, or when the integrations and exceptions cost more than the licence saves. We will tell you when buying wins — it often does.
Yes, entirely. Repositories, infrastructure, and accounts are in your name from day one, and the handover includes documentation written for someone who wasn't in the room.
Usually. We start with a short audit of the code, dependencies, infrastructure, and deployment path, then give you an honest read on whether to continue it, refactor it in place, or replace it a piece at a time.
In the same repository, on the same board, with the same review standards. Some teams want us to lead delivery, others want extra senior capacity alongside their own — both work, and the second is what IT staff augmentation is for.
A focused first version is usually a matter of months, not weeks, and the honest variable is how much of the scope survives contact with real users. We build toward something usable early and expand it, which gets the schedule risk in front of you at the point it can still be acted on.
Yes, and we would rather you asked before the build than after. Software that is used gets changed, and a project that budgets for delivery but not for the year after it tends to decay into exactly the legacy system it replaced. Ongoing support is a defined engagement, not an assumption.
Yes. Operational software for a specific trade is a common custom build — gym management software with membership billing and door access, valet parking software with digital tickets and damage photos, or digital solutions for real estate built around MLS data. In most of these markets we recommend buying the system of record and building the member app, portal, or integration on top. Our guides on gym management software, valet parking software, and real estate software explain where that line usually falls.
By discovering the expensive things early and telling you while there is still a choice. Fixed scope with a fixed price transfers risk to us but prices that risk in; time and materials costs less when scope is genuinely uncertain, provided you get a running forecast rather than an invoice. Our engagement models page sets out the trade-off in full.