Specified properly.Built quickly.Owned by you.
We're a Dublin software studio building websites, internal tools and custom apps for small and medium businesses. AI helps us write the code faster. Engineers with 30 years of enterprise delivery make sure it's right. You get a fixed quote before we start and the code when we finish.
01 / What gets in the way
Most SMEs we talk to have tried at least one of these. Some have tried all 4. None of it is a skills problem on your side.
Agencies staff projects with account managers, project managers and juniors, then bill for all of them. A simple booking system ends up quoted like an ERP rollout.
Long discovery phases and big-bang launches mean you pay for most of the project before you can click a single button. By then the business has moved on.
3 subscriptions, a spreadsheet holding them together and one person who knows how it all works. It's fine until that person is on holiday.
The code sits on their servers, under their accounts. Changing supplier means starting again, so you don't, and the price of every change goes up.
02 / What we build
Every quote is fixed once the spec is signed, and every line of it says what you're paying for.
Fast, accessible sites you can edit yourself. Built to rank in Google and to turn visitors into bookings, calls and quote requests.
Job trackers, quoting tools, staff rotas, stock systems and dashboards. Built around how your team already works, so they actually use it.
Customer portals, booking apps, integrations and automations. Where AI earns its place we add it, for example to read incoming documents or sort enquiries by urgency.
03 / How a project runs
We'll take a 4-page spec over a 40-slide pitch deck. Every single time.
A 30-minute call about the problem and the people who live with it. It's free, and you'll leave with a rough budget range either way.
We write a plain-English spec covering every screen, every integration and what's left out. You get a fixed price and a delivery date against it.
AI-assisted development with a senior engineer reviewing every change. You see a working version each week and can click through it yourself.
Code, accounts, documentation and a training session for your team. After that, support is optional and comes from the engineer who built it.
Scope changes mid-build are written up and priced before they're done. You'll never get a surprise invoice.
04 / Why it costs less
A large share of any software project is routine code. Forms, screens, database plumbing and tests. AI tools now write that in hours instead of days, and that's where most of the saving comes from.
What AI doesn't do is decide what to build, spot the edge case that loses you an order, or take responsibility when something breaks. That's the job of a senior engineer, and it's the part we never automate.
We're a small team with no account managers to pay for, and the hours AI saves go straight into a lower quote. That's the whole trick.
| Item | Typical agency | DCM Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Day rates or estimates that grow | Fixed, against a written spec |
| First demo | Often months in | Within [X] weeks |
| Who builds it | Mixed team, often juniors | Senior engineer plus AI tools |
| Code ownership | Varies, check the contract | Yours, from day one |
| Progress | Monthly status reports | A working version every week |
| Support | Ticket queue | The engineer who built it |
05 / What 30 years of enterprise delivery brings
We've spent 30 years shipping systems for global organisations where an hour of downtime cost more than most SME websites. The useful habits came with us. The steering committees stayed behind.
Automated tests on the parts that handle money, bookings and customer data. Checked again after every change.
Access controls, encryption, backups and GDPR decisions are written into the spec on day one. Bolting them on after a scare costs more.
A short runbook for your team and proper technical notes for any future developer. Nobody needs to call us to understand it.
Optional support plans with a stated response time of [X] hours, monitoring and monthly updates.
06 / Work
Each case study shows what was built, how long it took, what it cost and what changed for the business afterwards.
07 / Questions
No. AI drafts a lot of the routine code, which is why we're quicker. A senior engineer designs the system, reviews every change and is accountable for what ships. If AI would make a part worse, we write it by hand.
You do. It lives in your repository, and hosting, domains and third-party services sit under your accounts. The contract says so in one sentence.
We write the change up, price it and give you a new date. You approve it before we start. Small changes that fit inside the agreed time are often free, and we'll tell you which is which.
Yes. We work across Ireland and the UK, invoice in euro or sterling, and keep data in the EU or UK depending on where your customers are.
Usually. Xero, Sage, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, HubSpot, Stripe and most tools with an API are routine. We check every integration during the spec, before you commit to a price.
Hosting and any third-party services are listed in the spec with monthly costs. Support is optional and priced per month from [€ PRICE]. If you'd rather maintain it yourself or use another developer, the documentation lets you.
Next step
Tell us what's slowing the business down. The engineer who'd build it will reply within 2 working days with a rough price range.