— ETHELIUM · TECH
The systems your business runs on.
Ethelium Tech is the engineering side of the studio: the internal software, the infrastructure it runs on, and the hardware when a screen isn't enough. One person who builds the whole stack, so nothing gets lost between vendors.
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— What this covers
Three kinds of work.
Most jobs are one of these. Plenty are two of them at once, which is the point of having them under one roof.
Internal tools
The system that replaces the spreadsheet: job tracking, scheduling, quoting, timesheets, reporting. Built around how you already work, with the manual steps taken out.
Hosting & plumbing
Domains, email, hosting, deployments, backups and the glue between the services you already pay for. Set up properly once, documented, and handed over.
Devices & embedded
When the job needs a physical thing — a sensor, a controller, a purpose-built box — rather than another dashboard. Prototyped first, so you see it before it is built properly.
— How it works
Four steps, no surprises.
Describe the problem
Not the solution — the problem. What takes too long, what breaks, what lives in someone's head. Rough is fine.
Fixed scope, fixed quote
We agree what the first version does and what it doesn't, and you get a price and a timeline before anything is built. No hourly meters running.
Build, with something to look at
You see working software or a working prototype early and often, not a status report. Course corrections are cheap while it is still being built.
Hand-over
Deployed, documented, and yours — accounts in your name, source in your hands. Ongoing support if you want it, no lock-in if you don't.
— What you get
Yours, properly.
- You own it — the code, the accounts, the domains, the hosting. All in your name at hand-over.
- One person, start to finish — no account manager, no hand-off to a junior halfway through.
- Documented — how it works and how to run it, written down, not locked in my head.
- Built to be handed on — if you ever move to another developer, nothing about this stops you.
- Fixed price — agreed before the work starts, so the number doesn't move.
- Support if you want it — ongoing maintenance is available, never mandatory.
— Questions people ask
The honest answers.
What does it cost?
It depends on scope, so step one is free: you describe the problem, I tell you what a first version would cost as a fixed number before anything starts.
Do I need all three?
No. Most jobs are one thing — a tool, a migration, a device. They sit together because the same work often touches more than one, and it is cheaper when one person handles the whole chain.
Can you work with what we already have?
Usually. Replacing a working system is rarely the cheapest answer. If the sensible move is to connect what you already pay for rather than rebuild it, I will say so.
What if it turns out I need an app or a website instead?
Then that is what gets built. Ethelium Apps and Ethelium Design are the same person, so the answer does not depend on which page you landed on.
Start with the problem.
Tell me what is slow, manual or held together with tape. I will tell you whether it is worth fixing.
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