Custom software & internal tools
Operations portals, client portals, approval queues, booking and case systems: the line-of-business software no product on the market fits without three workarounds.
SpiderHunts Technologies is UK-registered, with a registered office in London E6 and its team in Lahore. We build the software London businesses cannot buy off the shelf: operations and client portals, internal tools, AI agents and integrations, and first products for scale-ups. You keep London hours, you are invoiced in pounds, and your systems run in a London cloud region.
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SpiderHunts Technologies Ltd is a UK company, registered at Companies House under number 16718403, with its registered office at 182-184 High Street N, Office 14607, London E6 2JA. The whole team works from Lahore. That is the honest description of us: a UK-registered business you contract with and meet by video call, and engineers four or five hours ahead who are already at work well before a London morning starts. You are invoiced in pounds, under English law, and nothing waits overnight for an answer.
London work clusters in a few recognisable places. Firms in the City and Canary Wharf want onboarding, reporting, reconciliation and control tooling built around a regulated core. Agencies, publishers and scale-ups around Shoreditch, Old Street and King’s Cross want a first product, or the internal system a spreadsheet has long outgrown. Law firms, accountants and consultancies in Holborn and Chancery Lane want document-heavy workflows handled properly. Property companies want portals, certificate tracking and deal pipelines. Distribution businesses on the M25, Park Royal, Heathrow, the Thames Gateway, want depot dashboards and carrier integrations. The detail of how each build is run sits on the custom software development page; this one is about what it is like to hire us from London. For AI receptionists, chatbots and agents, see AI agents and chatbots for London businesses.
Two questions come up on almost every first call. The first is data protection: we build software designed to support UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, lawful-basis and consent records, data minimisation, retention and deletion, subject access and erasure workflows, role-based access and audit logging, and we host in London regions inside your own cloud account. Registration with the Information Commissioner’s Office and the decisions a controller makes stay with you. The second is whether we are genuinely here. The company is UK-registered and you contract with it under English law, but the London address is a registered office only and the team works from Lahore, so every meeting is by video call, in UK business hours. For the picture across the rest of the country, see our United Kingdom page.
What we build
The engineering work you would otherwise give an in-house team, built around your process and released into your own cloud account.
Operations portals, client portals, approval queues, booking and case systems: the line-of-business software no product on the market fits without three workarounds.
Client onboarding and verification flows, reconciliation and reporting views, exception queues and the audit trails a City or Canary Wharf firm has to be able to produce on request.
Agents that triage a shared inbox, research, summarise, draft and prepare work for a person to approve, running inside your own tools with guardrails and logs.
AI added to Microsoft 365, Salesforce, HubSpot, Xero, Sage and your own database through their APIs, rather than a parallel tool nobody opens.
Customer-facing products, member and investor portals, and mobile apps for field, site and sales teams working across Greater London.
First releases and multi-tenant platforms for London software companies: authentication, billing, admin, partner APIs and the analytics you need to learn something real.
Invoices, delivery notes, certificates, applications and forms read on arrival, checked against your system of record, with only the unclear ones sent to a person.
Infrastructure as code in AWS London, Azure UK South or Google Cloud europe-west2, data pipelines, CI/CD with review gates, and monitoring your on-call engineer can actually read.
Why it matters
Most London projects we are asked about were already on someone’s roadmap. They stalled because the people who could build them were busy keeping the current systems alive, and because London engineering time is the scarcest thing in the building.
Based in London and stuck between a product that nearly fits and a build nobody has time for?
Tell us the workflow, the systems it touches and who uses it. We will say whether buying beats building, and what a first build would realistically cost.
Examples
Typical problems London teams bring to us, and the software that addresses them. Illustrative examples of what we build, not client results.
An application flow that collects identity and company documents, calls the verification vendors you already licence, records each check and decision, and sends only unclear cases to an analyst.
Aim: a consistent, documented decision on every application
Broker submissions and bordereaux spreadsheets read as they arrive, mapped to your schema, validated against the fields underwriters actually need, with rejects returned to the broker rather than silently fixed.
Aim: intake handled on arrival, with a record of what was changed and why
A tool that opens a matter from incoming documents, extracts the fields a fee earner would otherwise retype, and flags the clauses or missing items that need a human read before the file goes further.
Aim: review time spent on judgement rather than transcription
A portal that collects EPCs, gas safety records, electrical installation reports, references and identity documents, reads the key dates out of them and warns the property manager before one expires.
Aim: renewal dates surfaced before they are missed
One view of consignments, exceptions and proof of delivery pulled from the transport system and carrier APIs, with delivery paperwork captured on a phone at the kerbside instead of returning to the office in a folder.
Aim: fewer status calls between depots, drivers and head office
Authentication, the one workflow that proves the idea, billing, an admin view and the analytics you need to learn from real users: built so the second release is not a rewrite.
Aim: something real in front of users before the next round of planning
How we work
Short stages with a clear output each time, run inside your working day so nothing sits waiting until tomorrow.
Thirty minutes on the problem, the systems involved and what ‘done’ looks like. It runs by video call. You get a written quote with scope, exclusions and an estimated timeline.
We agree which cloud account and London region the work runs in, who grants access to which systems, and what personal data is involved, before any of it moves. Where we handle personal data for you, that sits under a written data processing agreement.
Work lands in your repository from the first week. There is a written update each day and a demo each week in London hours, so you see the real thing rather than a status report.
Automated tests and scans run in the pipeline, your team reviews access and logging, and we release in stages with monitoring switched on and a rollback path agreed in advance.
Documentation, runbooks, infrastructure definitions and code stay in your own accounts and repositories, so your team or any other firm can pick it up. Ongoing development or support is quoted separately if you want it.
Clear scope · Regular demos · Full handover
Is it right for you?
We would rather tell you a product already on the market covers this than build you something you did not need.
Make an informed choice
Nearly every London enquiry starts as this question. We answer it before quoting, because getting it wrong is expensive in both directions.
| Factor | Buy a SaaS product | Hire an in-house team | Build it with us |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fit to an unusual process | Only if your process bends to it | Whatever you can build once staffed | Built around the process as it is |
| Time to something usable | Days, if it fits | Months, once hiring is done | Typically 4–8 weeks for a focused tool |
| Cost shape | Per seat, rising with headcount | Salary, employer costs and recruitment | A quoted build, then hosting and changes |
| Where the data sits | The vendor’s regions and terms | Wherever you choose | Your own account, in a London region |
| Meeting face to face | A sales call | Down the corridor | By video call |
| Who can change it later | The vendor | Your team | Any developer, from your repository |
| What you own at the end | A subscription | Everything | Code, documentation and infrastructure |
Pricing
The same prices as on our service pages, quoted and invoiced in pounds sterling against a written scope. There is no London loading and no discount for being somewhere else.
Free
30 minutes
A video call on the problem, the systems and the constraints, followed by a written scope and range.
Get a quote →£8,000–£20,000
4–8 weeks
One focused system, a portal, queue, tracker or approvals workflow, built, deployed into your cloud account and handed over with documentation.
Get a quote →£20,000–£45,000
2–4 months
A multi-role application with integrations, reporting and an access model your compliance or IT team can review properly.
Get a quote →£3,000–£12,000
1–3 weeks
One AI feature inside a system you already run, extraction, search, summarising or drafting, with a person approving the outcome.
Get a quote →Cloud hosting and third-party licence fees sit in your own accounts and are not included. Where UK VAT applies it is shown as a separate line and the position is confirmed in the quote before you sign. Every build gets a written quote with scope and exclusions agreed up front.
Technology
Mainstream languages and platforms, the systems and data sources London businesses actually depend on, hosted in UK regions inside your own cloud account.
Sectors
London is not one market. These are the clusters that send us the most work, and the software each one asks for first.
FAQ
The questions London buyers ask before they sign, answered plainly.
Still have a question?
Ask us directly. A senior engineer reads every question.
Ask about your projectNo. SpiderHunts Technologies Ltd is registered at Companies House under number 16718403, with its registered office at 182-184 High Street N, Office 14607, London E6 2JA. You contract with that company, under English law, and the London address is the one on the contract and the invoice. Nobody works at that address: the whole team works from Lahore, and we say so openly. This is a UK-registered company with its team in Lahore, not a Soho studio with forty desks. If a supplier tells you every engineer sits in Zone 1, ask to see them.
No. All meetings are by video call, including at the start of a project: our team works from Lahore, and our London address is a registered office only. Day-to-day work runs over video, Teams or Slack and a shared board, because a weekly demo you can invite your stakeholders to beats a monthly meeting in a room.
Yes. Calls, demos and reviews are booked in London business hours, GMT or BST. The engineers are five hours ahead in winter and four in summer, so their working day has already started before yours and covers your whole morning and early afternoon live. Something raised late in a London afternoon is at the top of the list first thing, rather than sitting through a full overnight gap: which is the usual cost of working with a team on another continent.
Projects are quoted and invoiced in pounds sterling by SpiderHunts Technologies Ltd against a written scope with milestones, under English law. Where UK VAT applies it is shown as a separate line and the position is confirmed in the quote before you sign, so the VAT figure is known well before the first invoice arrives. Payment by bank transfer or card. If your organisation has its own supplier terms, purchase order process or procurement portal, we work through them; larger London firms usually do.
In your accounts, not ours. We deploy to AWS eu-west-2 in London, Azure UK South or Google Cloud europe-west2, inside your own cloud organisation, and code goes to your GitHub, GitLab or Azure DevOps. Engineers get named, least-privilege access that you can revoke at any time, and we keep production data out of development environments unless you specifically ask otherwise. If a project uses a large language model, we can route it through UK or EU endpoints and tell you exactly which data leaves your systems and which does not.
We build software designed to support UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, but compliance is a property of your organisation rather than of one system, so it stays your responsibility. In practice that means lawful-basis and consent records, data minimisation, retention and deletion rules, subject access and erasure workflows, encryption, role-based access and audit logging, documented so your DPO or adviser can review it. Registration with the Information Commissioner’s Office, your privacy notices and the decisions a controller makes are yours. Where we handle personal data on your behalf we work under a written data processing agreement, and we would rather develop against anonymised or sample data in the first place.
We build software for them; we are not a regulated firm and we do not give regulatory advice. What that looks like in practice is engineering controls your compliance function can rely on: immutable audit logs of who saw and changed what, segregation of duties and four-eyes approvals, retention rules, evidence that can be exported rather than screenshotted, and reporting views that reconcile back to the source. Your compliance, risk or legal team defines the obligation; we build the system that enforces it and write down what it does. Any permission, attestation or regulatory sign-off remains entirely with you.
Mostly three things. Portals, so applicants, tenants, contractors or investors submit documents once instead of emailing them around. Trackers, which read the dates out of EPCs, gas safety records, electrical installation condition reports and tenancy paperwork and warn a property manager before something expires. And pipelines, which pull listing, deal and building data out of the systems an agency or landlord already runs into one view. Our real estate page goes into the sector in more depth.
Yes. London’s distribution ring, Park Royal, the Heathrow air-freight estates, Croydon, the Thames Gateway and the London Gateway and Tilbury ports, runs on transport systems, carrier APIs and a great deal of paper. Typical builds are a depot dashboard that merges consignments and exceptions from more than one system, integrations with carrier and courier APIs, and capture of delivery notes and proof of delivery from a driver’s phone at the kerbside. Where routing and access charges matter, the administrative side of low-emission and congestion zones can be folded into the same workflow.
Yes, and the useful question is usually not ‘what could we build’ but ‘what is the smallest thing that proves this works’. A first release is typically authentication, the one workflow that proves the idea, billing, an admin view and enough analytics to learn something from real users. We keep it deliberately small so you spend the rest of the runway on what the users actually tell you, and we will push back if a scope is trying to be version three on day one. See SaaS development for how those builds run.
You get a written quote after a free scoping call. As typical ranges from our service pages: a focused internal tool or first release is £8,000–£20,000, a business web application £20,000–£45,000, a platform or modernisation £45,000–£80,000+, a single AI feature or integration £3,000–£12,000, and a single-purpose AI agent £5,000–£12,000. Those are our prices everywhere; being in London does not add a loading. Cloud hosting and third-party licences are separate and stay in your own accounts, and VAT is stated in the quote.
We work in English, in writing and on calls. London is one of the most multilingual cities in the world, so customer-facing products often need more: we build interfaces so text, dates, currency and number formats can be translated, and so a right-to-left language does not break the layout later. The wording comes from your team or your translator, we do not sell translation, and we make sure the product carries it properly rather than having it bolted on after launch.
Start here
Tell us what needs building, which systems it has to touch and who will use it. You will get an honest view on whether it is worth building, a likely approach and a realistic range, free and with no obligation, on a video call.
Thanks, that’s with us.
A senior engineer reads every enquiry and will reply as soon as they can.
Book a time that suits you, or send a message on WhatsApp.