AI and software development in Croydon
Augustova builds custom AI systems, websites, web and mobile applications and business automations for companies in Croydon and across South London. Fixed price, agreed against a written scope, typically two to four weeks to a working system. We run our own software in production, so the work is done by the people who carry it.
Working in Croydon
Croydon is the largest business district in South London and the third largest in the capital after the City and Docklands. That mix produces an unusual concentration of mid sized professional firms, recruitment agencies and care providers operating with head office responsibilities but small company headcounts.
The office stock around East Croydon and the Whitgift area has drawn in professional firms that would once have sat in the City, and the tram network puts a large recruitment catchment within half an hour of a desk here. The result is a business district where firms serve London clients from South London cost bases, and where headcount stays deliberately flat while workload does not.
Firms here are big enough to have a real administrative burden and small enough that the person carrying it is usually the owner. That is the shortest distance between a problem and a decision we work with anywhere.
Who we tend to work with here
Also covering
Purley, Coulsdon, Selsdon, Thornton Heath, South Norwood, Sanderstead.
What we build for Croydon businesses
What Croydon businesses keep asking us to fix
Head office duties on a small team
A Croydon firm with twenty staff often carries the reporting obligations of one with two hundred, because the client base expects it. The work lands on whoever has capacity, which is usually the owner.
Candidate response time
Recruitment businesses here compete with central London agencies for the same people. First contact within minutes rather than hours changes placement rates, and manual processes cannot hold that pace through a busy week.
Compliance evidence assembled by hand
Care and construction firms in the borough hold records that must be produced on request. When those records live across email, spreadsheets and a filing system, producing them costs days that nobody quoted for.
Working in person in Croydon
The studio is at 60 Tottenham Court Road in Fitzrovia, a direct train from East Croydon to Victoria or London Bridge, then a short hop. Scoping interviews, the walkthrough of the written report and the handover session are the three points where being in the room changes the outcome, and we do those in person for Croydon clients at no extra cost. The build itself runs remotely with weekly demos, which is faster for everyone. A founder answers directly throughout; there is no account manager between you and the people building the software.
Prices are the same everywhere: an AI adoption audit at £2,500 to £6,000 fixed, credited in full against any build; a first implementation at £4,000 to £15,000; a custom AI system at £8,000 to £25,000; applications at £8,000 to £30,000 per phase; websites at £4,000 to £16,000; training from £1,200. Every quote is fixed in writing before work starts, with a list of what is not included.
Which Croydon businesses the work lands in
Croydon has one of the largest concentrations of recruitment and staffing agencies in south London, alongside care providers, training providers, accountancy and legal practices, logistics operators along the Purley Way and a retail and hospitality centre that is being rebuilt. The work that lands most often is exactly what we run ourselves: screening, chasing and booking for the agencies, recruitment and rota for the care providers, enquiry and enrolment automation for the training providers, and onboarding and document intake for the practices.
What a Croydon firm should automate first
For an agency or a care provider, the hours after someone applies. The applicant who hears nothing until Wednesday has taken another job; screening in seconds, a message within minutes and an interview booked automatically is the difference, with a recruiter deciding and the candidate told AI is used. For a training provider, the enquiry and the enrolment. For a practice, client onboarding and records chasing before the busy season. Our recruitment platform is in daily use across a national network, which is why the advice for Croydon’s agencies is specific rather than general.
Questions from Croydon businesses
Do you work with businesses in Croydon in person?
Yes. Croydon is our closest business district and we can meet in person for scoping and handover sessions. The written scope, the fixed price and the weekly demos work the same way whether the project runs in person or remotely.
What does a software project for a Croydon business typically cost?
Published ranges apply everywhere: £4,000 to £16,000 for a website, £8,000 to £30,000 for an application, £8,000 to £25,000 for a custom AI system, £2,500 to £6,000 for an adoption audit. The price is fixed against a written scope before anything is built.
Based in Croydon? We can meet.
Tell us what your team still does by hand every week. A founder reads every message and replies personally, usually within one working day.