App & Platform Development
Web App Development Services
At Knights, we create digital platforms that are either client or colleague facing, that help you run your business. If you’re running your company on Microsoft Excel or on paper, and you’ve outgrown it, it might be time to evolve.
Find your fit
App Development at Every Size
Starting Out
One tool that takes the worst job off your plate — quoting, bookings, job records — built properly so it still works when you get busy.
Starting Out Apps →Established
Your first system that actually runs things: quotes, jobs and clients in one place instead of three, with the admin handled rather than remembered.
Established Apps →Growing Fast
One platform instead of the chaos — the tools joined up, the double-entry gone, and everyone finally seeing the same picture.
Growing Fast Apps →Scaling Seriously
Partnership-led delivery: a dedicated lead, a roadmap that evolves, and phased work scoped through discovery before anyone commits.
Scaling Seriously Apps →Enterprise
A programme, not a build. Governance, legacy middleware, compliance and senior people who stay with it — delivered alongside your own teams.
Enterprise Apps →Not sure which one sounds like you?
Find Your Stage in Two MinutesWe Build Apps & Back Office Systems
Like many businesses starting out, we all crack open a spreadsheet and start using that to run our business, or perhaps even some paper forms and templates we've made in word.
When business starts to take off, these legacy systems can hold us back, or worse, cause serious problems with our growth in future.
With the Lockdown in 2020, and the ever changing world of Digital Business, there's never been a better time to cut the reliance on old tech and paper, and evolve to a truly digital business.
Types of Digital Platforms That We Build
Client Facing
Our client facing apps can be anything from web apps that allow people to place orders, eCommerce platforms, and data sharing apps, to full business systems that form the core of your service.
Apps that fall in to this category could be:
- eCommerce Websites
- Order Management Systems
- Digital Experiences
- Data Collection Apps
Back Office
Back office systems are used by internal staff, management, and various other parties, to assist the business in its day to day, strip manual admin, and give detailed reports and realtime information to the management team.
Example apps could be:
- Client Relationship Managers
- Business Intelligence Solutions
- HR Systems
- Time & Attendance Systems
There are no limits to what can be achieved. With bespoke apps, you don't have to fit into the workflows that off the shelf systems define.
Your Business — Ran Your Way
After spending years building your company, we don't think you should need to change your systems to conform to a piece of software that may not always operate the way it currently does.
We build our systems to enable your business to operate more efficiently, using your own processes and procedures.
We build around you, to save you time, and give you more freedom to make the important decisions.
We can't believe how sophisticated our app is, we were so excited to go live. It's a big USP for us, and the intelligence will be great for our supply chain.
Hayley Jones — Finance Director
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Every Build Comes With Merlin
Whatever we build for you is tracked in Merlin, our client platform: live project status, every milestone with its own progress bar, and your full digital history in one place.
You never have to email us to ask where something is up to.
Examples of Knights Digital Platforms
To see some examples of how Knights have helped our clients over the years, take a look at our App Development projects to get some inspiration as to how we might be able to speed up your workflows, and help your business grow.
We have many examples to browse, alongside our web development and marketing projects.
The business size guides
Or Start With Your Stage, Not the Service
Each guide covers the whole picture at that size — not just the systems, but what tends to break first and what to fix in what order.
- Starting Out — just you, or a couple of you.
- Established — a small team, under 15.
- Growing Fast — 15 to 50 people.
- Scaling Seriously — 50 to 250.
- Enterprise — 250 and up.
Not sure which one you are? Six quick questions will place you in about two minutes — and it runs in your browser, so nothing gets submitted anywhere.