Independent web & software studio

Software, drawn to scale.

ABK · DataLab builds corporate websites, internal CRM tools and custom AI agents — and does the SEO that gets them found. Every project starts as a drawing, so you approve the whole thing before we write a line of code.

5 practicesFixed-price scopesWorking under NDA
  • ACorporate & organizational sites
  • BInternal software & CRM
  • CCustom AI agents
  • DSEO and local search
  • ECare after launch

Client

Real estate

Listings, enquiries, sales desk

Client

Construction

Corporate site, project tracking

Client

Healthcare

Clinic site, appointment intake

Client

Corporate

Organizational and brand sites

Client names withheld. Every project above shipped under a signed NDA, and we intend to keep it that way.

Practice

Schedule of works

Five kinds of work. Each one is quoted as a fixed scope at a fixed price, agreed in writing before we start.

Corporate & organizational sites

The site your company is judged by. Built to load fast, read well on a phone, and be edited by your own team without calling us.

  • Design and build
  • Content editing
  • Search-ready markup
  • Multi-language

Internal software & CRM

Small, sharp tools for the work you currently run on spreadsheets. Leads, enquiries, inventory, approvals — whatever your team keeps losing track of.

  • Custom CRM
  • Admin dashboards
  • Role-based access
  • Reports and exports

Custom AI agents

Agents that handle the reading and writing your team does by hand — sorting enquiries, drafting replies, answering questions out of your own documents.

  • Answers from your documents
  • Enquiry triage
  • Workflow automation
  • Runs on your data

SEO and local search

Being found when someone searches for what you do. We work on the pages themselves, the technical side a crawler sees, the links pointing in, and your Google Business Profile.

  • On-page SEO
  • Technical SEO
  • Off-page and links
  • Google Business Profile

Care after launch

Launch day is not the end of it. We stay on for hosting, updates, and the small changes that come up once real people start using the thing.

  • Hosting and domains
  • Updates and fixes
  • Backups
  • Monthly changes

Selected work

We can show you the work. Not the names.

Most of our clients ask us not to publish their brand. Here is everything we can tell you without breaking that. The rest we will walk you through on a call.

File RE—01Confidential

Client

Real estate

Property listing site with map search, saved shortlists, and enquiry routing straight to the sales desk. Admin console for the listing team.

ScopeWebsite + admin
StatusLive
StackNext.js · PostgreSQL
File CN—01Confidential

Client

Construction

Corporate site with a project portfolio, plus an internal board for tracking sites, stages and handover dates across the company.

ScopeWebsite + tracker
StatusLive
StackNext.js · PostgreSQL
File HC—01Confidential

Client

Healthcare

Clinic website with department pages, doctor profiles, and an appointment request flow built to collect only what the front desk actually needs.

ScopeWebsite + intake
StatusLive
StackNext.js · PostgreSQL
Want the full picture? We can talk you through any of these, names included, once an NDA is in place.Book a walkthrough

Specification

What it is built from.

We work from a short list of tools we know well. Here is each layer, what we use for it, and when we reach for which.

  • FEFrontend
    AstroNext.jsReact

    Pages are rendered on the server, so a search engine reads the same page your visitors do. Astro for content-led sites, Next.js when the page has to do more than read.

  • APIServer
    DjangoFastAPI

    Django where the admin panel, users and permissions should come built in. FastAPI where the job is to move data between systems quickly.

  • DBData
    PostgreSQLSupabaseFirebase

    PostgreSQL by default. Supabase or Firebase when you want logins, file storage and live updates without paying to have them built.

  • AIAgents
    Pydantic AI

    Agent replies come back in a fixed shape and get checked against it before anything touches your data. An agent that goes off script fails loudly instead of quietly.

Your project is quoted with its stack named in the scope note, so you know what it is built on before we start.

How it runs

From first call to handover.

Four stages, in order. You always know which one we are in and what has to happen for the next one to start.

  1. 01

    Survey

    We sit with you and write down what the site or tool actually has to do. You get a scope note and a fixed quote before anything is built.

  2. 02

    Draft

    You see the layout and the flows before there is any code. Changes are cheap at this stage, so this is where we make them.

  3. 03

    Build

    We build against a live preview link. You can look at progress any day of the week, not just at the end.

  4. 04

    Handover

    You get the code, the accounts, the domain, and a walkthrough. Everything is in your name from day one.

The studio

A small team, on purpose.

ABK · DataLab is a working studio, not an agency layer. A group of developers who wanted to build things properly and answer their own emails.

  • Direct lineYou brief the person who writes the code. There is no account manager in between, and no margin paying for one.
  • Fixed scope, fixed priceWe quote after the survey, and that number holds unless you change what you asked for. No hourly surprises.
  • You own everythingCode, domain, hosting and content are registered to you. If you ever want to move on, nothing is held hostage.
  • NDA by defaultIf your work is confidential, it stays confidential. That is why half of this page is covered in hatching.

Start a project

Tell us what you are building.

One email is enough to start. We read every one and reply, usually with a few questions before we quote.

abkdatalab@gmail.com
Write to us

What to put in the first email

  • 01What you are building, in a sentence or two.
  • 02When you need it live, even if it is a rough date.
  • 03A budget range, if you have one in mind.