Custom Applications & Tools turns the data Professional Services extracts into a dashboard, a calculator, or an alert panel your commercial or pricing team can actually use — with every hosting and infrastructure cost quoted and approved before it's ever billed.
Every build pairs a custom application with the infrastructure it needs to actually run — each one scoped and billed on its own terms, so nothing recurring sneaks into a one-time project fee.
Dashboards, calculators, and alert panels built around your business logic — homologation across brands or catalogs, cleaning and outlier detection, suggested pricing, confidence scores. Built on the data Professional Services extracts, or on your own external data.
Exports in the format your team already works in — Excel with native formulas, for example — plus the integrations that make the tool usable day to day: a Google Sheet as a no-code control panel, automatic email or Slack alerts.
Hosting, database, and a scheduler for programmed jobs — priced at real resource cost and quoted before the phase that needs it begins, never folded invisibly into a development fee or a spider maintenance retainer.
A data dictionary, technical architecture docs, an operating manual, and a maintenance guide — plus a knowledge-transfer workshop so your team can run the tool without calling us for every question.
Development and infrastructure are scoped, quoted, and approved separately at every phase — so the invoice never surprises whoever signed off on the budget.
Most CAT projects start inside a Professional Services engagement already in motion, once it's clear the data needs an interface, not just a delivery. We can also scope a tool on its own, over data you already have.
We break the build into phases with clear deliverables, and identify every recurring resource the tool will need — hosting, database, scheduler.
Development and infrastructure are quoted separately, and you approve both before anything is built or hired — never after the fact.
Each phase closes with a demo against explicit, pre-agreed acceptance criteria — not a subjective call. Small edge cases found in final testing are logged for maintenance rather than blocking go-live.
You get the user manual, technical docs, and a transfer workshop. An optional annual support allowance covers the occasional fix — most tools, once running on stable data, need very little.
Every recurring resource is quoted and must be approved before the phase that needs it begins.
Professional Services and our Platform team co-approve every piece of infrastructure before it's hired.
If an optional annual support allowance reaches 80% use, you get a heads-up estimate before it runs out.
Infrastructure is paid for the contract term upfront to avoid service interruptions — the unused portion is refunded if you end early.
Custom Applications & Tools is for building the interface and infrastructure around your data — not for extracting it, or for running spiders that already work.
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View Data as a ServiceDevelopment and infrastructure are never bundled into one number, so you always know what you're paying for.
There's no published flat rate, because the real cost depends on the tool's complexity and the infrastructure your use case needs.
Tell us what your team needs to see and decide, and we'll scope the tool and the infrastructure together.
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