Custom Software Built On A Monthly Subscription

AsyncForge builds custom software for business owners on a subscription from €2,000/month. Internal tools, portals, booking systems, dashboards, and automation, without a big-bang project budget.

When Off-The-Shelf Software Stops Fitting Your Business

Every growing business hits the same wall. The spreadsheet that ran the operation for three years now has fourteen tabs, three people editing it at once, and one formula nobody dares touch. Orders get missed. The same information is typed into four different systems. Somebody spends most of Friday copying numbers from one place into another so the numbers can be looked at on Monday.

You look for a tool that solves it, and either it does not exist, or it does eighty percent of what you need and forces you to change how you work for the other twenty. So you pay for the tool, bend your process around it, add a spreadsheet on the side to cover the gap, and end up with more admin than you started with. The subscription fees stack up and the underlying problem is still there.

The traditional route to custom software is a project quote, and that is where most business owners stop. An agency scopes the whole thing up front, quotes forty or eighty thousand, and asks you to sign off a specification for a system you have never used and cannot yet picture. Six months later you get something built to a document, not to reality, and the changes you now know you need are billed as change requests.

The truth is you almost never know exactly what you need on day one. You know the pain. You know the hours being wasted. What the software should actually do becomes clear once you start using a first version of it. Any process that demands a complete specification before a line of code is written is optimising for the invoice, not for you.

AsyncForge builds custom software the other way around. A flat monthly fee, unlimited requests, one at a time, and something usable in front of you early. Light is €2,000/month with delivery within 4 business days per request, Standard is €4,000/month within 2 business days, and Pro is €8,000/month within 1 business day. You start with the thing that hurts most, we build it, you use it, and the next requests come from real experience rather than guesswork. 7-day free trial, pause or cancel at the end of any period, and the software is yours, not ours.

What You Get

Internal tools

The system your team actually needs to run the day: jobs, orders, stock, clients, schedules, approvals. Built around your process rather than forcing your process into somebody else's template. Usually this replaces a stack of spreadsheets and a lot of chasing, and it pays for itself in hours saved before it pays for itself in anything else.

Customer and client portals

A place your customers log in to see their orders, their documents, their progress, their invoices. It cuts the volume of "just checking in" emails dramatically and makes the business feel bigger and more organised than a shared inbox ever can. We build it to match your brand so it feels like part of your company.

Booking and scheduling systems

Availability, bookings, reminders, rescheduling, deposits, and the rules that are specific to how you actually operate. Generic booking tools break the moment your business has real constraints. We build yours to handle the exceptions, because in most businesses the exceptions are the business.

Dashboards and reporting

The handful of numbers you actually run the business on, pulled together automatically and shown in one place. No more waiting for someone to compile a monthly report from four systems. You get the current picture on demand, and so does anyone else who needs it.

Automation of manual work

The repetitive tasks that eat your team's week: re-typing data, chasing confirmations, generating documents, sending the same emails, moving information between the tools you already pay for. We automate them so people spend their time on the work that needs a person.

Connecting your existing tools

Your accounting software, your shop, your CRM, your payment provider, your email platform. We make them talk to each other so information flows once instead of being entered three times. Most of the waste in a small business hides in the gaps between the tools it already owns.

Technologies We Use

Custom web appsMobile appsInternal dashboardsAny modern stack

How It Works With AsyncForge

Intro call

AsyncForge is invite-only, so we start with a short call. Not a sales pitch. You describe where the time and money are leaking, and we tell you honestly whether custom software is the answer or whether something simpler would do.

Start with the biggest pain

We do not ask you to specify the whole system up front. We pick the single most painful part, build that first, and put it in your hands quickly so you can react to something real.

Build in small, usable pieces

Each request on your board comes back as something you can actually use, on the cadence of your plan. The system grows week by week, and you steer it based on what you learn from using it.

Adjust as you go

Revisions are unlimited and priorities are yours to reorder at any time. When the software does what you need, you can pause the plan and pick it up again when the next thing comes up.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does custom software cost with you?

It is a flat monthly fee, not a project quote. Light is €2,000/month, Standard is €4,000/month, and Pro is €8,000/month, and the difference is how fast each request comes back. You keep the plan for as long as you are getting value from it and pause it when you are not.

I do not have a detailed specification. Can we still start?

Yes, and that is normal. You need to know what problem you want solved, not how the software should be built. We ask the questions, propose the simplest thing that solves it, and refine it once you have used it.

How long before I have something I can use?

Sooner than you expect, because we do not build the whole system before showing you anything. The first useful piece usually lands within the first couple of requests, and then it grows from there.

What if it turns out an existing tool would work?

We will tell you. Building custom software you do not need is a bad outcome for everyone, and we would rather point you at the right off-the-shelf tool and work on something that genuinely needs building.

Do I own the software?

Yes, entirely. The code is yours, it lives in your repository, and it runs on your accounts. You are never locked in, and any other team could take it over if you decided to move on.

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AsyncForge is invite-only

We work with a small number of founders at a time. New clients come on after a 15-minute intro call with Stef — request one below.