Custom software development services for Houston, Texas

No. SpiderHunts Technologies Ltd is registered in the United Kingdom, with an office at 182-184 High Street N, London E6 2JA and engineers in Lahore, Pakistan. There is no Houston address, no Energy Corridor suite, no Texas entity and no local sales team, and we are not going to invent one. If having an engineer physically on site every week is a hard requirement, hire a local firm — we will tell you that on the first call rather than after the contract.

Houston runs on Central Time, six hours behind London for most of the year and five for the few weeks when the clocks change on different dates. Our afternoon is your morning, so standups, demos and decisions all sit in roughly 8am to midday Central. Lahore is five hours ahead of London again, which means a blocker you raise at the end of your day is often cleared before you sit down the next morning. Anything later than early afternoon Central is scheduled deliberately rather than promised as round-the-clock cover.

Projects are quoted in pounds sterling and invoiced in US dollars at the rate agreed in the quote, so both sides know the dollar figure before work starts. Invoices are raised by SpiderHunts Technologies Ltd against a written scope with milestones, and we can complete a W-8BEN-E for your accounts payable team. Payment by ACH, wire or card. Your legal team is welcome to work from your own master services agreement rather than ours.

In your accounts, not ours. Houston teams often choose Azure South Central US, which is in Texas, or Google Cloud us-south1 in Dallas; AWS has no Texas region, so that work usually lands in us-east-2 in Ohio or us-east-1, with Dallas Local Zones where latency to on-premises systems matters. Code goes to your GitHub, GitLab or Azure DevOps. Engineers get named, least-privilege access you can revoke at any time, and production data stays out of development environments unless you ask otherwise.

It shapes the design. The TDPSA gives Texas residents access, correction, deletion and portability rights and an opt-out of targeted advertising, sale and profiling, and it requires consent before processing sensitive data — which includes biometric identifiers and precise geolocation, so it lands directly on crew-tracking and field apps. Browser-level universal opt-out signals have to be honoured, and biometric identifiers are separately covered by the state’s capture-and-use law, enforced by the Attorney General rather than by private lawsuits as in Illinois. We build the request, consent, retention and audit machinery to support all that; the compliance judgement stays with your organisation and its counsel.

We build to the technical safeguards HIPAA expects: encryption of protected health information in transit and at rest, unique user identity, role-based least-privilege access, automatic logoff, integrity controls and audit logs of who saw which record. We will not call the result HIPAA-compliant, and you should be wary of anyone who does, because compliance covers your policies, training, contracts and physical controls as well as the software. Texas also has its own medical records act, which reaches more organisations than HIPAA does and adds training obligations of its own. Whether a business associate agreement is needed, and what it should say, is a decision for your counsel.

Yes, and for Houston work we treat it as the starting assumption rather than a later enhancement. Coverage fails on a Permian or Eagle Ford pad, offshore in the Gulf, inside a plant during a turnaround and in half the yards along the Ship Channel. So the app holds its own local database, caches the work orders and reference data a crew needs before they leave, captures readings, photos, signatures and barcode scans offline, and syncs on a queue with explicit conflict resolution when the signal returns. We also design for the hardware people actually carry, including intrinsically safe devices in hazardous areas, and for gloves and sunlight rather than an office screen.

Yes, this is a large part of what Houston clients ask for. We ingest sensor and telemetry data, normalise it, store it in time-series form and turn it into dashboards, alerts and forecasts people act on. We connect to anything with a standard interface: OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus gateways, REST APIs, historian exports or a scheduled file drop. One limit we state up front — we are an application software company, not a control-systems vendor. We do not write code that operates safety-critical equipment, and we will say so rather than take the work.

Yes. The problems around Port Houston are visibility and paperwork: cargo and container tracking that merges EDI, carrier and terminal data into one timeline, customs and documentation workflows where a missing form costs real money, drayage and yard scheduling across Barbours Cut and Bayport, and demurrage and detention audit that reconstructs the clock and checks a charge against contract terms before it is paid. Integrations are built defensively, with retries, idempotency and reconciliation, because these feeds will eventually send a malformed record at three in the morning.

You get a written quote after a free scoping call. As typical ranges from our service pages: an internal tool or MVP is £8,000–£20,000 over 4–8 weeks, a business web application £20,000–£45,000 over 2–4 months, and a larger platform or modernisation £45,000–£80,000+ over 3–6 months. A cross-platform mobile app is £15,000–£35,000 and a focused machine learning model £8,000–£25,000. Those are quoted in pounds and invoiced in dollars; cloud and third-party licence costs are separate and stay in your own accounts.

Not in Houston. We are remote-first, so day-to-day work happens over video, Slack or Teams and a shared board. If you are ever in London, you are welcome at the office there. Where a project would normally open with a site visit or a workshop, we run a longer video session across two or three Central Time mornings and ask your own people to walk us through the site on camera, which over a six-hour gap works better than one long day.

We work in English, in writing as well as on calls. Software can ship in more than one language, and in Houston that usually means Spanish: a field app, a plant screen or a patient portal often has to work for a crew or a patient group who would rather read it that way. We build the interface so text, dates, units and number formats are translatable from the start rather than retrofitted. We do not supply translation as a service — your team or your translator provides the wording, and we make sure the product carries it correctly.