From scratch
Build it from scratch
You have a process that spreadsheets stopped holding a year ago. We design it, build it, put it live, and show you how it works.
Edinburgh · bespoke software
We build the software you can’t buy off the shelf.
A small studio for founders and SMEs who need a real system, not another subscription. We scope it in a week, build it in weeks, and hand you every key at the end.
Recently shipped
Fleet dispatch rebuild7 weeks
LiveDrivers get next-day runs on their phones
Angular, Spring Boot, Postgres
Membership portal & billing5 weeks
LiveMembers sign up and pay without anyone rekeying it
Node, Stripe, AWS
Warehouse stock sync3 weeks
In buildOne stock count both warehouses can trust
Python, AWS Lambda, SQS
Grant reporting portal4 weeks
LiveFunders get their numbers without chasing anyone
Angular, Spring Boot, Azure
Client names on request — most of this sits behind a login inside someone else’s business.
- Edinburgh, UK
- 2–8 week builds
- You own the code
- Fixed price, fixed date
What we do
Four ways this usually starts.
Half finished
Rescue a stalled build
Someone else started it and stopped answering. We read the code, tell you honestly what is worth keeping, then finish it.
Two systems
Join up your systems
Your CRM, your accounts package and your warehouse should be talking to each other. We make them, and we check every night that they still are.
Already live
Keep it running
Hosting, monitoring, backups you have actually restored from, and a named person who picks up when something breaks.
How we work
Three stages. No mystery in the middle.
Week 1
Scope
A written spec, a fixed price and a date. If we think you should not build it, we say so in week one, not month four.
Weeks 2 onwards
Build
Every fortnight there is something new you can click, on a real web address. Not a status report with a green tick on it.
Handover
Hand over
You get the lot. The code, the servers, the instructions, and an hour with whoever inherits it. Nothing held back as a hostage.
Outcomes
What “done” has actually meant.
Three numbers from three recent builds. Full write-ups are with the clients for sign-off — ask and we will walk you through whichever is closest to your problem.
6min
to build a next-day run sheet, down from 95 minutes by hand.
£41k / yr
of manual invoice reconciliation removed from a finance team of three.
0days
of downtime across three switch-overs, including one on a Monday.
In their words
The bit we didn’t write.
PBF · Logistics
“They picked up six months of someone else’s half-finished code and had it in production in five weeks. It has not fallen over since.”
J. Hughes · Operations Director
LLD · Legal services
“First developers who told us what we did not need to build. That conversation saved us more than the project cost.”
T. Ponton · Managing Partner
CW Group · Manufacturing
“We had a working version in front of real customers before we had finished arguing about the logo.”
E. McCowen · Founder
Burrito Development is a small Edinburgh team that builds line-of-business software for people who have outgrown the off-the-shelf version. The person who scopes your project is the person who writes the code and the person who answers the phone eighteen months later.
We work in the open: a shared board, a real web address from week two, and a weekly note that says what moved and what did not. Everything we build is yours — the code, the hosting, and the instructions for both — handed over at the end whether you keep working with us or not.
The name started as a joke about wrapping everything you need into one thing you can carry one-handed. It stuck, and the burrito in the logo has been leaking code ever since.
Start here
Tell us what’s broken.
A paragraph is plenty. If it is not something we should take on, we will say so and point you at someone who should.
- Reply
- Within one working day, usually the same one.
- hello@theburrito.dev
- Studio
- Leith, Edinburgh — happy to come to you.
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