Independent software studio / Manchester

We build what the work actually needs.

Bespoke business software, connected web platforms and original digital products for ambitious, complicated work.

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01 / The operation

When the work stops fitting together.

Important work spreads across websites, documents, inboxes, spreadsheets and people’s heads. We find the real shape of it before deciding what should be built.

Input reader / 01 Enquiries Documents People Evidence Repeated work

02 / What we build

Public presence. Private machinery. One working whole.

We design the parts around the operation and make them work together.

01 / Public Web platforms Distinct sites with dependable systems behind them. 02 / Private Business systems Tools and workflows shaped around the organisation. 03 / Between Connections and intelligence Integration, automation and controlled AI layers.

03 / Working proof

The visible site is only the beginning.

Public work in the cabinets. Private machinery behind the walls.

Accounts Direct website homepage

Website / Platform / Partnership

Accounts Direct

Inspect
BCA website homepage

Website / Nexus / The Lobbyist

BCA

Inspect

Evidence cabinets / Live systems

04 / The side door

Useful things. Unfinished things. Oddities.

The Workshop is where smaller tools, experiments and original products get room to become themselves.

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The straightforward version

Hire DevMuse to make a difficult digital thing work properly.

You work directly with the person shaping the product and making the technical decisions. We keep the process clear, the evidence visible and the machinery appropriate to the job.

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01 / Systems

Bespoke business software

Internal tools, operational platforms and role-based workspaces designed around the real organisation.

 02 / Web

Websites and platforms

Distinctive public sites, memberships, portals and the workflows that make them useful.

 03 / Connections

Integration and technical work

APIs, automation, WordPress and careful problem-solving between systems.

Private partnership work

Nexus

A private operational system developed largely in partnership with AD Group, connecting specialist tools, people, evidence and day-to-day work.

Restricted work. Not a product. Not commercially available.

An abstract physical model of a private connected operational system
AccessPrivate / Controlled

Original software

Products with their own point of view.

Our own products give difficult creative ideas the time and care they need.

INT.EXT screenplay writing surface Screenwriting / Private beta

INT.EXT

 Void Loom dark ambient instrument Audio instrument / Private beta

Void Loom

Start with the difficult bit

What needs to work better?

A rough explanation is enough. We will ask the useful questions and tell you plainly whether DevMuse is a good fit.

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