Bespoke Software Development

Many companies and organisations outside of the software industry rely exclusively on off-the-shelf software for their operations. But what if your organisation's unique needs makes existing solutions inadequate? Developing custom software to replace inefficient standard offerings becomes easier every year, yet many organisations lack the technical competence to attempt to develop software in-house. Our Bespoke Software Development service enables organisations to hire Shellhex to construct software tailored specifically to their needs. We hope that such software can offer significant productivity gains more than capable of recuperating development costs.

Shellhex's Unique Technical Competency

Many companies offer custom software development contracts. What Shellhex distinctively offers is a set of technical competencies that are much more specific than general programming expertise. Not only do our team members all have over 15 years of programming experience, we specifically have experience with many more specialist areas, including:

  • Scientific computation - We have experience creating complex software combining numerical methods, machine learning, and big data processing, and deploying such software on real high-performance computing clusters. Our team has more academic training in mathematics than in computer science, and we are comfortable with most of the maths underlying modern physical science and engineering. We also have experience with writing software for computer vision, natural language processing, and other areas of artificial intelligence.
  • Low-level and embedded - We are proficient in low-level languages, and at a general level understand modern compilers, assembly code, chip architectures, and operating system design. We are able to create software for embedded systems or other domains with hard-real-time constraints or strict memory limitations, and we know how to ensure software utilises the parallelism and caching of modern chips efficiently.
  • Advanced user interfaces - Many teams are able to create simple web interfaces, but our experience with user-facing software is far broader. Our team has written GUI software with hardware-accelerated 3D rendering from scratch, with no framework or game engine. We also have experience with shader programming for non-photorealistic 3D rendering, as well as with computational geometry. Furthermore, we have experience deploying complex data visualisations in real-world operationally critical contexts.
  • Security-first engineering - We can apply our offensive security mindset to design software that aims for security from the ground up. We have familiarity with advanced security-relevant areas of theoretical computer science such as pure functional programming, cryptography, and formal verification. We also are familiar with real software vulnerabilities and security engineering, and have experience deploying end-to-end encrypted systems.

What we can offer is far more than just building a website or configuring a database. As an example of the type of contract we feel comfortable taking on, we have the company experience needed to do all the software for a robotics project.

What We Can Deliver

Imagine a tradesperson doing a physical job on a building or other site. If their toolbox lacks the proper tools for the job, the whole process could be heavily slowed due to inefficient workarounds, or even grind to a halt. Now consider your organisation and its processes. Are you confident all the proper tools are already in your toolbox?

We offer the opportunity to meet for a free consultation to discuss how your organisation could benefit from novel software tools, or to discuss specific ideas for software if you already have a concrete need in mind. Once we have an understanding of your needs, we can draft a proposal of what software we could develop for your business. If you give the go-ahead, we can then develop the software. During development, we can meet with your enterprise repeatedly to get your opinion and see how your team operates with it in practice. This lets us ensure that the final product is what benefits your organisation the most - in practice, what software would provide the most for you may be impossible to estimate in advance.