Software development company · London

Software Development Company for London Businesses

Web apps, mobile apps, SaaS products, AI features and the integrations that tie them together — built for London SMEs, startups, scale-ups and in-house product teams by engineers who keep your hours, show you working software every fortnight and hand over code you own.

  • Remote-first, on UK business hours
  • Working software to review every fortnight
  • A contract with a UK company, priced in pounds

The London problem

Why software projects stall in London businesses.

The ideas are rarely the issue. Capacity, cost and coordination are — and London makes all three harder.

What to expect from a partner

  • Senior engineers without a months-long hiring process
  • Working software to look at every fortnight
  • A contract with a UK company, priced in pounds
  • Engineers who keep your working hours

Senior hires take months

London’s engineering market is crowded with banks, big tech and well-funded startups. A senior hire can take months to land, and the best candidates arrive with counter-offers.

Contractor day rates add up

Contractors fill the gap, but at London day rates a small team gets through a budget quickly — and the knowledge leaves when the contract ends.

Spreadsheets running the business

Quotes, bookings, rotas and month-end reporting live in spreadsheets and inboxes that one or two people truly understand.

Systems that do not talk

The CRM, the accounts package and the operations tool each hold part of the picture, so staff re-key the same data every day.

Agencies built for launches

Plenty of agencies build a good-looking first version. Fewer want to own the backend, the integrations and the releases for years afterwards.

Stakeholders who want to see it

Directors, partners and investors want working software, not status reports — and now and then they want everyone in one room.

Who we work with

Across London, who we build software for.

Different corners of London, different briefs. What they share is a need for software that ships and keeps working.

Startups and scale-ups in Shoreditch

From first version to next release

A first product built properly, or a managed team shipping the roadmap while you recruit your own engineers — then a clean handover.

Research teams around King’s Cross

Research into usable software

Knowledge Quarter teams turning models, datasets and lab processes into dashboards, portals and APIs that non-specialists can use.

SMEs across the boroughs

Spreadsheets into systems

Quoting tools, booking systems, customer portals and dashboards for growing businesses that have outgrown their spreadsheets.

Law, accountancy and consulting firms

Client portals and internal tools

Secure document portals, matter and engagement trackers, and AI assistants for professional firms in the City and around Holborn.

Media and creative businesses in Soho

Tools behind the creative work

Asset libraries, production trackers, rights and licensing records, and client review portals for studios, agencies and publishers.

In-house product teams

Capacity for one workstream

A mobile app, a set of integrations or a migration your own engineers have no room for, delivered inside your tools and sprints.

Working together

How London clients work with us day to day.

We are remote-first. Our engineers sit in the UK and India and keep UK business hours, so your working day is our working day: meetings fall in normal London hours and there is no overnight gap built into every question.

Day to day, you get a shared Slack or Microsoft Teams channel with the people writing the code, a video call whenever something is easier to talk through, a written update every week — what shipped, what is next, what is blocked, what we need from you — and a sprint demo every fortnight on a staging environment your team can use at any time.

The moments that matter most — a discovery kick-off with directors, a workshop with the staff who will use the system, a launch review with your board or investors — run as focused video sessions with a shared board, and the decisions are written up so everyone works from the same notes. Remote delivery keeps costs sensible and progress visible.

Techsleight Labs is a London-based trading name of Krapton IT Consultancy, a UK company registered at 128 City Road, London EC1V 2NX, so your contract, your invoices and your recourse are all with a UK company.

  • A shared Slack or Teams channel with the engineers doing the work
  • A sprint demo every fortnight on a staging environment you can use
  • A written update every week: shipped, next, blocked, decisions needed
  • Workshops on video, with decisions written up afterwards

Useful building blocks

London and UK data worth building on.

Public APIs and open data that make a feature genuinely useful to Londoners. We check licences, usage limits and data quality in discovery before designing around any of them.

TfL Unified API

Line status, live arrivals, disruptions and journey data from Transport for London — for apps, booking flows and screens that need to know how people are getting around.

London Datastore

Open datasets from the Greater London Authority — population, housing, transport and environment — useful for site selection, borough-level reporting and civic tools.

Companies House

Company profiles, officers and filing history from the free public API, for pre-filled sign-up forms, supplier checks and B2B onboarding.

Open Banking

Account data and pay-by-bank through authorised Open Banking providers, for lending, accounting and personal finance products.

Fintech software

Accounting and payments

Xero, QuickBooks and Sage integrations, and Stripe for cards and subscriptions, so month-end stops depending on copy and paste.

Microsoft 365 and Google sign-in

Single sign-on for internal tools, so staff use the accounts they already have and leavers lose access in one place.

How we work

How a project runs, from first call to launch.

The same seven stages on every project, run remotely on UK business hours with your team involved at every step.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    A kick-off on video with the people who own the problem, then interviews with the staff or customers who will use the software.

    Problem, users and success measures in writing

  2. 02

    Strategy

    We agree the first release and what waits, and how we will work together: channels, demo slots, who signs off, and the budget in pounds.

    Scope, working agreement and quote

  3. 03

    UX & architecture

    User journeys, wireframes and a clickable prototype, alongside the architecture, data model and integration plan that will carry it.

    Prototype and architecture decisions

  4. 04

    Development

    Work runs in two-week sprints, each closing with a demo, plus a written update every week. Your team can use the staging environment at any time, not just on demo day.

    Working software every fortnight

  5. 05

    Testing

    Automated tests written as we build, then manual QA, accessibility and performance checks before anything goes live.

    Test evidence and a release checklist

  6. 06

    Launch

    Production release with monitoring, backups and a rollback plan, timed around your trading calendar rather than ours.

    A live system and a handover pack

  7. 07

    Optimisation & support

    A support retainer for fixes and improvements, or a handover to your own engineers with documentation and walkthroughs.

    Support plan or clean handover

Engagement models

Ways to start, and ways to scale.

Start with a discovery sprint while the scope is still forming. Move to a fixed-price project, named developers or a managed team once you know what you need.

Discovery sprint

From £2,000 fixed fee

You have an idea or a problem, but not yet a scope you would trust a quote against.

  • Workshops with your team
  • Prototype or technical spike
  • Written scope, plan and estimate

Dedicated developers

From £2,900 per developer / month

Ongoing roadmap work where you want named engineers inside your own sprints.

  • Named, senior engineers
  • Work inside your tools and sprints
  • Scale up or down as the roadmap changes

Managed product team

From £9,500 per month

A small cross-functional pod — engineering, QA and delivery lead — that owns an outcome.

  • One accountable delivery owner
  • Sprint planning and reporting
  • QA and code review included

Prices are in GBP. Every estimate is confirmed in writing after a discovery call — the figures above are where engagements start, not a quote.

Why Techsleight

What working with us is actually like.

No inflated numbers — just how we run projects, and what you can hold us to.

Product engineering, not ticket-taking

We ask what the software is for before we estimate it — and we will tell you when something should not be built, or should be bought instead.

AI where it earns its place

LLM features, retrieval and automation built with evaluation, guardrails and cost controls, and plain software where that is the better answer.

Full-stack under one roof

Design, frontend, backend, mobile, cloud and QA in one team, so nothing falls between suppliers.

UK-focused delivery

UK business hours, estimates in pounds, and a contract with a UK company. Our engineers are based in the UK and India.

Flexible engagement

A fixed-scope project, dedicated developers or a monthly retainer — and you can move between them as the work changes.

You own everything

Code, IP, cloud accounts and documentation are yours from day one. We sign an NDA before discovery if you need one.

Support after launch

We stay on for fixes, upgrades and new features, or hand over cleanly to your in-house team with the documentation to match.

FAQs

Questions we get asked.

Straight answers on scope, cost, timelines and how we work. If yours is not here, ask us directly.

Ask us a question

How much does software development cost for a London business?

It depends on scope, integrations and how much already exists. A discovery sprint to define the first release starts from £2,000, and the build that follows is priced as a fixed sum, billed at milestones. Ongoing capacity is priced monthly — named developers from £2,900 each, a managed team from £9,500 — which is worth comparing, like for like, with the same capacity from London contractors.

Where are your engineers, and how do we work together?

Our engineers are in the UK and India, and all of them work UK business hours. Delivery is remote: video calls, a shared channel, a written update every week and a demo every fortnight, with workshops such as a discovery kick-off or a launch review run on video.

Who is our contract with?

Krapton IT Consultancy, a London-based UK company — Techsleight Labs is its trading name. Its registered office is at 128 City Road, London EC1V 2NX. Estimates and invoices are in pounds, and an NDA can be in place before discovery starts.

Will we be waiting overnight for answers?

No. The team works UK business hours, so there is no overnight lag built into every question. Emails get a reply within one working day, and during a project the shared Slack or Teams channel with your engineers is there for the quicker back-and-forth.

Can you work alongside our in-house team?

Yes. We can own a workstream end to end or add named developers to your sprints, working in your repositories, tools and ceremonies. We agree code review standards and who approves releases at the start, so nothing reaches production without your team seeing it.

A previous supplier left us with half-finished software. Can you help?

It is a common starting point. We begin with a short review of the code, hosting and access — who holds the passwords matters as much as the code — then give you a plain-English view of what to keep, fix or replace before any new features are built.

How quickly can you start?

Most projects start within 5–7 working days of sign-off. If a date matters — a funding milestone, a trading peak, a contract start — tell us on the first call and we will plan discovery backwards from it.

Who owns the code and the cloud accounts?

You do. Source code, designs, documentation and the cloud and domain accounts are registered to your organisation from day one, so you can bring development in-house or change supplier without asking anyone’s permission.

Can you build for councils, charities and public services?

We can. Public sector bodies have specific accessibility duties, so the work is built and checked against WCAG 2.2 AA and we help draft the accessibility statement. Where a project uses open data — from the London Datastore, for example — we check the licence and update schedule before building on it.

Is it better to buy a SaaS tool than build our own?

Often, yes — if a mature product fits the way you work, buy it, and we will say so. Building makes sense when the workflow is what sets your business apart, when off-the-shelf tools force expensive workarounds, or when per-user fees for a growing team outstrip the cost of owning the software.

Start a project

Planning software for your London business?

Tell us what you want to build or fix, who will use it and any dates that matter. We reply within one working day with questions, a suggested first step and a view on budget.

  1. 1A senior engineer reads your brief within one working day, and replies with questions or a first view.
  2. 2A 30-minute call to understand the goal, constraints and what good looks like — no sales script.
  3. 3A written proposal with scope, milestones, team and a GBP estimate you can take to your board.

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