Product discovery & scoping
Two weeks with your team, your users and whatever you already have running. You end up with a build plan, a cost, and a written list of the things we think are a bad idea.
from £2,400
Software studio · Wilmslow, Cheshire
Software built to be lived with.
Most of what we are asked to fix worked perfectly on launch day. It stopped working in year two, when the person who wrote it had gone. We build for year two.
A brief is a hypothesis. We test it before anyone writes a line of code.
We do not quote on the first call. Two weeks understanding the problem costs less than three months solving the wrong one, and we would rather lose the work than take it on that footing.
We also turn down design-only briefs. If nobody is going to build it, we are the wrong studio.
What we take on
The work
Six things, priced from. Every figure below is a starting point for a scoped piece of work, not a rate card — we quote properly once we know what we are building.
Web application build
A working product for a real audience. Typed end to end, tested, deployed on infrastructure you own. Handover includes the runbook, not just the repository.
from £18,000
SaaS platform development
Multi-tenant from the first commit: billing, roles, audit trail, and the boring parts of onboarding that decide whether anyone renews.
from £34,000
Systems & API integration
Getting two pieces of software to agree. We have wired Xero, Salesforce, NHS Spine and a good deal of undocumented SOAP into things that had never met them.
from £4,800
Internal tools & automation
The spreadsheet that four people maintain by hand, turned into something that maintains itself. Usually the cheapest work we do and the fastest to pay for itself.
from £6,500
Support & maintenance
Monthly retainer. Dependency updates, security patches, an on-call number, and a standing hour every fortnight to talk about what broke and why.
from £1,450 / month
Fixed price once scoped · no hourly billing
Day rate for ad-hoc work: £680
All figures exclude VAT
The studio
Trickdevelop is run by Phill Ltd, from a first-floor office on Westbourne Drive in Wilmslow.
Four of us. Eleven years between us in fintech, logistics and NHS integration work — the kind where a bad deployment is somebody's Tuesday morning ruined.
We started in 2025 on the back of a job that went badly. We inherited a half-finished rewrite from a team that had already left, with no documentation and a client who had stopped answering the phone. It took five months to finish. Somewhere in month three we worked out that this was the part we were actually good at: the unglamorous middle of a project, after the excitement and before the launch.
So that is what we sell. Not the pitch. The middle.
Next step
Tell us what is not working.
Send us the problem in plain English. We will tell you within two working days whether it is ours to solve, and roughly what it costs.
Get in touch
Book a consultation
An hour, no charge, no slide deck. If we are not the right studio for it we will say so and point you at someone who is.
- [email protected]
- Telephone
- +44 7848 451 167
- Address
- 6 Westbourne Drive
Wilmslow
SK9 2GY