Augustova builds web and mobile applications for UK businesses at £8,000 to £30,000, quoted as a fixed price per phase and delivered in two to six weeks. The team has shipped two live SaaS products, apps in both the App Store and Google Play, and a published browser extension. We deliver this for businesses in Islington and across North London.
Price range£8,000 to £30,000
TimelineTwo to six weeks depending on surface area
ServingIslington and North London
How this usually starts in Islington
An Islington build often turns project reporting and approvals into something generated and recorded automatically, which returns billable hours immediately.
Why Islington businesses ask for this
Islington concentrates design, architecture, media and professional services around Clerkenwell and Angel, with a large independent hospitality sector alongside. Studios here tend to be small, senior and project driven, which makes their reporting burden disproportionate to their size.
Project based studios spend a surprising share of the week reporting on projects rather than doing them. That reporting follows rules, which makes it the first thing worth removing.
Sectors we work with in Islington
Design and architectureMedia and productionProfessional servicesHospitalityTechnology
What this covers
React and Next.jsReact Native and ExpoTypeScript and NodePostgres and SupabaseVercel and cloud infrastructureApp Store and Play Store release
How it runs
01Requirements and wireframing
02Interface design and prototyping
03Build with working demos throughout
04Testing, performance and security
05Launch, monitoring and iteration
What you receive
✓A working application on the platforms agreed, web, iOS, Android or all three
✓The repository and the infrastructure accounts in your name
✓Store submission handled, including the review process and the assets it demands
✓Documentation, credentials, a runbook and a recorded walkthrough
✓A training session for the people who will use it daily
✓A monthly support arrangement agreed in the original document
What this does not include
✗A design system built from nothing when your brand already has one
✗Ongoing content entry, which is your team knowing your business rather than ours guessing
✗Features discovered mid build, which are quoted as a new phase rather than absorbed silently
Signs this is the right call
A spreadsheet is doing a job that several people now depend on
Your process works but only because one person remembers the exceptions
You need customers or staff to do something on a phone and there is currently no way to
Where projects like this go wrong
Scope that grows quietly
Most overruns are not engineering failures, they are additions nobody wrote down. Each phase has a fixed price and a written scope, and a new idea becomes a new phase rather than a delay with no explanation.
Built for the demo, not the Tuesday
Software is judged on the dull week, not the launch. We build with the awkward cases in from the start, because the exception your team handles by hand is usually the reason the old process was slow.
A launch with no handover
An application nobody but the builder understands is a liability. Handover is documentation, credentials, a runbook and a recorded walkthrough, so another developer could pick it up without calling us.
Common questions
How much does it cost to build a business app in the UK?
Augustova quotes £8,000 to £30,000 depending on surface area, fixed per phase so the budget does not drift. A single process automation sits at the lower end and a multi user platform with mobile apps at the upper end.
Do you build for web and mobile?
Both. We run our own products on web, iOS and Android, and we handle the App Store and Google Play submission process, which is usually the part that surprises teams doing it for the first time.
What happens after launch?
A handover pack of documentation, credentials, a runbook and a recorded walkthrough, plus a training session for the people who will use it daily. A monthly support arrangement starts at go live and is agreed in the original document rather than negotiated afterwards.
Do you work fixed price or day rate?
Fixed price. A day rate pays a supplier for being slow and penalises them for being fast, which is backwards. Fixed price forces the scope conversation before the money is committed, and the risk of being wrong sits with us.
app development for your Islington business
Tell us what happens today and roughly when you need it changed. Close enough to meet in person.