Custom Software Development Process

Working with Beloved Robot consists of three distinct stages.

  1. Project Roadmapping
  2. The Build Out
  3. Lasting Partnership

Project Roadmapping

When we start a partnership together, we put a ton of time and effort into learning all about your business. With this knowledge, we can combine our technical expertise with your in-depth knowledge of your company. Meshing our expertise together ensures that what we build together is a perfect fit and will be a huge success.

This all starts with our Project Roadmapping process. It is a tried and true framework that we've developed to bring your ideas to life.

The most important part of your project is early planning and exploration. Early on, we do the research and discovery to make all of your great ideas come together. All the nitty-gritty details fleshed out and documented. Potential potholes and roadblocks are avoided. All resulting in a realistic plan of execution. Below are the Deliverables of Project Roadmapping.

Deliverables

  • Detailed Requirements Document
  • Roadmap and schedule for the next 12-18 months of features
  • Process Diagrams, flow charts, wireframes, and prototypes
  • Robust business case

The Build Out

Now that Project Roadmapping is complete, our team of expert developers, designers, testers, and project managers get to work. Taking your ideas and turning them into real-life products. There are usually three areas of focus.

Mobile Apps

Getting good data in real-time is often the biggest challenge that our customers face. And with all your employees carrying around these little supercomputers in their pockets. Mobile apps are a logical place to solve this problem. We build powerful native apps that are as reliable as the tools you use daily to get work done.

Dashboards

Back-office automation centers around a dashboard and command center to manage all the most critical workflows in your business. This includes robust reporting, scheduling, user management, and many more functions. All of your most important data in one place, easy to use and accessible from anywhere.

Integrations

No more double data entry, scanning in documents, dealing with stacks of paper. All of our tools integrate with the existing software systems that you are already using. We've worked with tons of these systems and are really good at it. From Quickbooks to SAP, we've seen it all. These direct integrations are the missing piece for most software systems.

Lasting Partnership

There's no secret sauce required when it comes to building software. But getting your team on board in a seamless and timely manner can be tricky. This is where our years of expertise in training, deploying and maintaining software systems come into play. We make sure that what we've built together stays in working order by maintaining and enhancing the tools.

We aren't interested in building a tool and walking away. Our success is dependent on your success. We take great pride in the fact that we have built our business on long-lasting relationships with all of our customers.

Common Questions:

Is it hard to build an app or software?

With the right partner, no, it's not hard at all. But if you take the wrong approach or don't fully understand the problem you are trying to solve, it can become increasingly difficult. And frankly, that's why you would partner with Beloved Robot. We've seen it all and will make sure that your project stays on track and focuses on the task at hand. Nothing that we do from a technology standpoint is proprietary. We insist on using industry-standard tools and frameworks across the board.

How much does custom software cost?

In general, software projects start in the $75k-100k range and can cost well into the six figures. As a general rule of thumb, your investment upfront with be substantial but will flatten out over time. Maintenance and Support cost is generally 20% of the total cost of the project per year.

What are the benefits of building custom software?

When you build your custom software, you can gain a level of control you've likely never had before. It removes so many friction points that today's modern enterprise software introduces. We have several articles that deep dive into this topic. Check them out:

What are some examples of custom apps and software?

We've tackled a lot of common workflows in the industrial space. Here are a couple of great examples of the type of tools we build.