Software consultancy

Software solutions to digital problems.

Holt & Gander is a small, senior software consultancy. We design, build, and run dependable software for real business problems, without the bloat, and we stay around to keep it running.

What we do

The work we take on.

Most of it starts the same way: something that matters is being held together by manual effort, and it has stopped scaling. These are the places we usually come in.

Build

Custom software & web applications

When the off-the-shelf option almost fits but never quite does, we build the thing that does. Internal tools, customer-facing applications, and the unglamorous systems a business actually runs on.

Connect

Automation & integrations

The job someone re-does by hand every Monday, handled properly by software. We connect the systems you already pay for so information moves on its own instead of via a spreadsheet and a reminder.

Measure

Data, reporting & insight

Get the numbers out of the systems holding them and into a form you can act on. Pipelines that hold up, reports that reconcile, and dashboards someone will actually open.

Rescue

Modernization & rescue

Aging systems, half-finished builds, and code nobody wants to open. We work out what is really there, make it safe to change, and move it forward in steps rather than one risky rewrite.

Plan

Strategy & scoping

Before anyone writes code, work out what is worth building. You get a clear scope, a sensible order to do it in, and an honest view of the cost and the risk.

Run

Ongoing operation & support

We run what we build. Monitoring, updates, and a real person who knows the system to email when something looks wrong.

How we work

A straight answer, then the work.

Most software problems are not really technical. They are what happens when nobody stopped to ask what the work actually needs to do.

So we start with your problem rather than our toolkit. You get a scope you can hold in your head before anything is built, a small senior team doing the building, and progress described in the words you would use yourself.

We would rather tell you a project is not worth doing than take the money and find out together. If we are not the right people for it, we will say so.

Senior people only

The people who scope the work are the people who build it. Nothing gets handed to a junior team once the contract is signed.

A scope you can hold

Clear scope, clear price, clear finish line, agreed before we start. If the problem turns out to be a different problem, you hear that early and in plain terms.

Plain communication

No status theatre. Straight answers about progress, cost, and risk, from someone who knows the code.

We run what we build

Handover is not the end of it. We keep things patched, monitored, and reassuringly boring.

The studio

About Holt & Gander.

Holt & Gander is a software consultancy. We pair careful engineering with a real eye for the people who have to use what we make.

We keep the team small on purpose. That means fewer projects at a time, no layers between you and the person writing the code, and work we are prepared to put our name on.

We build software the way we would want it built for us: focused, tested, documented, and free of features nobody asked for. Nothing ships that we would not be happy to run ourselves, because usually we are the ones running it.

Start a conversation

Get in touch

Have a problem worth solving?

Tell us what is not working. You will get a straight answer about whether we are the right people to fix it, what it would take, and roughly what it would cost.

solutions@holtandgander.com