Custom software & technology · Brisbane
Darren James,
Corepoint Solutions
I help small businesses make the right technology decisions, not just build the thing they first asked for.
Twenty years turning business problems into technology that actually fits. You deal with me directly.
Representative screens from systems I've designed and built.
01 / The approach
Most providers skip the hard part.
Right now everyone wants to add AI, automate a process, build an app. The trouble is that automating something means making it faster, and if it was the wrong thing, you have just made the wrong thing faster, for more money.
AI is a genuinely powerful tool at that last step. Knowing whether you have actually reached that step is the part that takes judgement.
That order is not new. It is a principle I have applied across twenty years of project delivery. Most people skip straight to the end. I won't let you.
I work in the other order
02 / What I build
The kinds of things I build.
Most of it is custom software shaped around how a business actually works, rather than forcing the business to fit the software. A few of the shapes that tends to take.
Custom web applications
Software shaped around your actual process, not an off-the-shelf tool you have to bend the business around.
Customer and member portals
A place for clients or members to log in and self-serve, instead of emailing you the same questions.
Online ordering and configurators
Let customers browse, configure and order custom products, with the workflow behind it handled properly.
Booking and payments
Take bookings and payments directly, without paying ongoing fees to a platform that owns the relationship.
Workflow and document automation
Take the repetitive, error-prone work off people so their time goes to the parts that need judgement.
System and accounting integrations
Make disconnected tools talk to each other, so the same data is not keyed in three times.
AI where it genuinely helps
Applied to a problem we have already understood and improved, not bolted on because it is the thing to do.
Rescuing stalled builds
Pick up a project that went sideways, work out what actually went wrong, and get it finished.
03 / How a build runs
See it before you fund the build.
When a project genuinely needs a custom build, it runs on a defined path with approval gates. You are never funding something you have not already seen.
- 01
Discover
Understand the business before the system.
- 02
Envision
A concrete, visual view of the solution, early enough that corrections cost nothing.
- 03
Define
The detail that drives development: requirements, refined mockups, and the work split into deliverable pieces.
- 04
Build
Working software delivered epic by epic, not a long silence then a big reveal.
- 05
Launch
A fixed, predictable path from acceptance to live.
Here is one screen from a real build, at three stages: a rough sketch, the agreed wireframe, then the software running.
Representative screens from a system I designed and built.
Selected outcomes
recovered for a Brisbane health practice, back into seeing patients.
up to, with no ongoing software subscription to run it.
on a custom ordering build, delivered early and under budget.
04 / Who this is for
This is for you if…
You run a small business and you want a partner who understands what you are trying to do, not a vendor who wants to sell you the biggest possible build.
You would rather be told “you don't need that” than be quietly upsold.
You want someone who has seen technology projects succeed and fail at scale, and who can tell the difference before you have spent the money.
I'm probably not your person if…
You already know exactly what you want built and you just need hands on a keyboard. There are cheaper options for that, and I will happily point you to them.
05 / Background
No sales team.
No surprises.
When you work with Corepoint, you work with me. The first conversation is about working out what you actually need and whether I am the right person to help.
Sometimes the answer is that you need less than you came for. I would rather tell you that early than bill you for it later.