You have an idea for a product, an internal tool to transform into a service or an application to modernize? We design and develop custom web applications and SaaS platforms, ready to welcome your first users.
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Your project, in practice
A SaaS is software accessible as a service. Its first version must demonstrate the usefulness of the main journey for a specific audience, before multiplying modules or markets.
Software publishers, B2B service companies, and teams wanting to transform their business expertise into a product must first choose an audience and a primary use to serve.
On the ground · Fepi
For its ESG reporting platform, Fepi had to gather information from invoices, CSV files, and ERP systems. The problem was as much in data collection as in data reading.
The mandate focused on a reporting platform that gathers these flows in a structured interface. This example shows why source connection and information presentation are designed together before adding new indicators.
Discover the project Fepi
For your SaaS, start with the information and action that make the service useful to its first user. Accounts, rights, support, and possible billing then extend this journey.
The problem
A SaaS or a web application almost never fails on the idea: it is the passage to a first solid, usable, and sellable version that blocks.
The consequences
Every month without a product online is a month without users, without learning, and without revenue.
Each discussion adds an "indispensable" feature. The first version is delayed month after month.
A simpler but online competitor takes the place while the project is refined.
The quickly assembled demo impresses, but does not support real users or real data.
Money goes into restarts instead of reaching users.
Without architecture or method, each addition costs more than the previous one.
Bugs, slowdowns and poorly isolated accounts: the first impression is hard to recover.
Authentication, payment, emails, data: services pile up without an overall vision.
Code hastily accumulated becomes a barrier to each new feature.
The solution
Developing a web application or SaaS starts with the uses of the first version. MVP scoping defines users, accesses, and essential functions to test product value. We then plan launch steps and feedback to guide evolutions.
The problem, the users, the business model, and the scope of the first version: everything is set before coding.
Registration journey, key screens and roles are mocked up and validated with you.
Multi-account architecture, subscriptions, security, and integrations: a clean base, ready to grow.
Production deployment, measurement of real usage, and evolutions by short iterations.
What You Get
A SaaS platform may include user management, roles, subscriptions, billing, and administration. The scope of the first version retains the functions necessary for the product model. Access and data separation rules between accounts are defined from the design stage.
Custom web software development can also address business use: structured entry, validation workflows, reports, and role-based access. We distinguish the internal tool used by your team from the SaaS product for multiple clients to frame appropriate functions and operations.
Payment (Stripe and others), accounting, CRM, transactional emails, external services: your application fits into an ecosystem, we connect it properly.
Your application already exists but is reaching its limits? We audit the code and data, then modernize step by step, without stopping the service.
The process
A 30-minute discussion about your idea or current application. You will leave with an honest assessment of feasibility, risks, and the scope of a first version.
Mockups validated, then deliveries by short iterations: you test a functional version at each milestone and the product remains continuously usable.
Production deployment, usage and performance monitoring, quick fixes, and roadmap for evolutions. The contract specifies delivered code, accesses, and third-party licenses; data export is included in the scope.
Our Work
Products we have designed and developed, used daily by their users.
Your next project
A website to rethink, a process to simplify or a tool to build: tell us where you want to start.
To decide
Examine possibilities based on your usage, deliverables, and operating costs.
| Criterion | Prototype to try | First version in production |
|---|---|---|
| Objective | Check understanding and interest of the journey. | Allow real users to complete a task. |
| Data and access | Demonstration data and sometimes simulated journeys. | Accounts, permissions and data separation between organizations. |
| Administration | Manual interventions possible to observe reactions. | Tools necessary for support and usage monitoring. |
| Investment | Design and testing to reduce uncertainties. | Development, testing, hosting, monitoring and maintenance. |
These references do not replace the written scope. Choices and commitments are validated after reviewing your needs and the selected tools.
A concrete first scope
A SaaS targets users who do not know your internal workings. For a B2B service, a reporting platform, or a tool for professionals, the first challenge is to make the product’s value accessible without permanent support.
The first version can include registration, access to a space, a central function, and the necessary administration to assist users. The framework defines accounts, roles, and data separation between organizations. The prototype tests this journey with an identified audience.
Recurring billing, multiple plans, partner integrations, a mobile app, and advanced features are planned based on feedback. An initial version does not assume reproducing all options of an established product.
Development is added to hosting, transactional emails, APIs, storage, and support. Volumes per client, maintenance, and availability needs influence operating costs. These assumptions are reexamined with initial usage.
Tests follow a user from registration to their first result, then verify access between accounts and administrative actions. Launching with a limited group helps understand dropouts and prioritize next steps.
Before starting
Everything depends on the scope of the first version: number of screens, roles, integrations and security requirements. We work in fixed-price phases, and the free technical audit serves to give you a realistic order of magnitude before any commitment.
The schedule is established after defining the first user journey, accesses, and integrations. It depends on content, approvals, and technical complexity. An MVP must be usable by an identified group to collect feedback; its launch does not guarantee commercial adoption.
Yes. We first audit the code, database, and infrastructure, then recommend gradual modernization or targeted reconstruction, depending on the actual product condition.
Yes. Subscription plans, free trials, billing and payment (Stripe and other gateways) are part of the foundations we set up for a SaaS.
The contract specifies the delivered code, data, documentation, and accesses provided, as well as the conditions of ownership and transfer to another provider. Third-party components and services retain their own licenses. Export options and the exit procedure are defined during planning.
Yes. We deploy on infrastructures hosted in Canada when your data or clients require it, and we document the chosen architecture.
Yes. SaaS operation includes monitoring, backups, patches, and support according to the agreed scope. Evolutions are prioritized based on usage and user feedback. We distinguish these recurring costs from initial development and document responsibilities of your team and ours.
A free 30-minute technical audit to evaluate your idea or current application. You leave with an honest assessment of feasibility and a plan for the first version.
