Custom Software, Northern Rivers NSW
Custom software for Northern Rivers businesses.
Custom software for a Northern Rivers business is a real application built to your process rather than bent around someone else's product: internal tools, dashboards, booking and admin platforms, and mobile field-ops apps. I design and build them end to end for operators across Ballina, Byron Bay, Lismore and Lennox Head.
The same person who built the Barden inspection platform and the Teven Golf Course rebuild, in your business end to end rather than handed to an offshore team. Custom software from $8,000 AUD.
What It Is
Software built to your process.
Most business software asks you to change how you work to suit the product. Custom software is the reverse: an application built around the way your business actually runs. Internal tools that replace the spreadsheet everyone secretly relies on. Dashboards that show the numbers that matter instead of the ones a generic product decided to surface. Booking and admin platforms that match your real workflow. Mobile apps that work in the field, on cellular, where the job actually happens.
The Barden Constructions inspection platform is the clearest example. Reports that used to take hours now take minutes in the field, the reinspection paperwork problem is gone, and the platform paid for itself in the first month. It works because it was built to the Barden process, not to a template.
Who It Is For
Businesses a spreadsheet outgrew.
Across the Northern Rivers, from construction and trades in Ballina and Lismore to hospitality groups in Byron Bay and multi-site operators in Lennox Head and Bangalow, the same pattern shows up. The business grew, the process got real, and the tools never caught up. The critical workflow lives in a fragile spreadsheet, or three apps that do not talk, or a founder's head.
That is who custom software is for. Operators who have hit the ceiling of off-the-shelf, who are paying for platforms and still working around them, or whose way of working is genuinely their edge and deserves software that respects it. If a product on the market does fit, I will point you to it. Custom is for the jobs where nothing off the shelf actually matches how you operate.
Real Local Outcomes
Real apps, shipped and in use.
Barden Constructions, a mobile inspection and reporting platform that killed the reinspection problem. Built for the field, fast on cellular, exactly to the Barden process. Over $10k saved on reinspection paperwork, instant reports, and it paid for itself in the first month. Live and in daily use.
Teven Golf Course, one of the Northern Rivers' best 9-hole courses, rebuilt with member admin, event management, scorecards and a partner program alongside the public website. Live, on retainer, in active use by club staff and members.
The through-line is that these are not demos. They are working systems that a real team relies on every day, built by one person who sat in each business first to understand the process before building the software around it.
How We Work
Scope it properly, build it in the open.
Custom software goes wrong when the scope is vague. So it starts with getting that right.
- 1. Discover and diagnose. Time in the business, then a written report on the process, the real requirements, and what to build first. Honest about what does not need building.
- 2. Build. Scoped properly, then built in a staging environment that mirrors your real setup. You see progress weekly, not at the end.
- 3. Integrate. Wired into the systems you already use, tested on real data, not synthetic happy-path examples.
- 4. Tune and embed. Team trained, runbook written, code in your accounts, one month of free tuning, then ongoing support so the software grows with the business.
Pricing
From $8,000 AUD, scoped in writing.
Custom software starts from $8,000 AUD, scoped after a requirements call. The final number depends on surface area: how many workflows and users, what it integrates with, whether it needs a mobile or offline surface. You get a fixed scope and a fixed price before any real build begins.
If your problem turns out to be smaller than a full application, AI automation starts from $1,500 AUD per workflow and a hand-built website from $3,000 AUD. I will point you to the right-sized answer rather than the biggest one. Start a project enquiry and we will scope it on the call.
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