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Software development services, from first sketch to production support.

Eleven service lines, one delivery team and one roadmap. You can buy any one of them on its own — most engagements use three or four, quoted as a single outcome rather than a stack of invoices.

What these services cover

Canopus IT Solutions builds and runs software across eleven service lines — custom software, SaaS products, AI systems, mobile apps, enterprise applications, API integration, cloud and DevOps, web development, eCommerce, digital marketing, and dedicated engineering teams. Each is delivered by the same team, under one contract, with full IP transferred to you.

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Which service do I actually need?

Buyers rarely arrive knowing the service name. They arrive with a sentence. Find the sentence closest to yours.

Match your situation to a starting service — and to what that engagement usually involves and how long it runs.
If you're saying this…Start hereTypical scopeTypical timeline
"Our team runs the whole operation on spreadsheets." Custom Software Spec, build, handover10–20 weeks
"We want to sell this as a subscription product." SaaS Development Multi-tenant MVP with billing8–12 weeks to MVP
"We have thousands of documents nobody can search." AI & Intelligent Systems Retrieval, evaluation, guardrails6–14 weeks
"Our field staff need something that works without signal." Mobile Apps Offline-first iOS and Android10–18 weeks
"Two systems disagree and someone re-keys the data." API & Integration Two systems, one data contract4–12 weeks
"The server falls over and nobody knows why." Cloud & DevOps Migration, CI/CD, alerting3–14 weeks
"Our CRM doesn't match how we actually sell." Enterprise Applications Custom build or Zoho/Odoo fit6–20 weeks
"The site is slow and we're invisible in search." Digital Marketing & SEO Retained technical SEO and paid3–6 months to compound
"We need more engineers, not another vendor." Dedicated Teams Named squad on your backlogLive in 3–4 weeks

Scroll the table sideways to see scope and timeline.

Timelines assume a single production system with normal integration load. Regulated domains — hospital systems, payments infrastructure, anything touching HL7/FHIR or PCI scope — carry extra review, evidence and audit work that lands at the top of the range or beyond it, and we say so during scoping rather than after. A number comes out of discovery rather than out of a table: stage one ends with a written estimate set against a specification you keep either way.

How they combine

Nobody buys one service. They buy a working system.

A logistics client "bought mobile app development". What they actually needed was a driver app, a dispatch web console, a telematics ingestion pipeline, two carrier integrations and a monitoring setup that pages someone at 3am. Five service lines, one team, one statement of work.

This is the reason we don't sell services as separate contracts. The interesting failures happen at the seams between them — and seams are exactly where two vendors point at each other.

One statement of work One named team lead One roadmap and backlog One escalation path

Buying delivery under your own brand

Agencies and consultancies buy the engineering lines above white-labelled: we build under your brand, on your process, invisible to your client and contractually barred from approaching them. It is a way of contracting rather than a twelfth service line, so it sits with the engagement models — see white-label development partnerships for what we do and do not white-label.

Included as standard

What comes with every service line

These are not upsells and they are not conditional on the size of the project.

  • Full IP assignment on paymentRepository, infrastructure, credentials and documentation — transferred, not licensed.
  • A named team lead for the whole engagementThe person who scoped it stays through launch.
  • Two-week sprints with a working demoSlippage surfaces in a fortnight, not at a deadline.
  • Automated tests and code review on every changeNo merge without a second pair of eyes.
  • Written architecture and runbook documentationEnough for another team to take over without us.
  • Staging environment matching productionIncluding data shape, not just an empty database.
  • Dependency and secrets scanning in CIFindings triaged, not just reported.
  • A 30-day post-launch defect windowBugs from our build are fixed at no charge.
Delivery

The same five stages, whichever service you buy

STAGE 01

Discover

1–3 weeks. Requirements, constraints and a costed plan you can take elsewhere.

STAGE 02

Design

2–4 weeks. Flows, data model, architecture decision records and a clickable prototype.

STAGE 03

Build

The bulk of the engagement. Sprint demos, staging deploys, QA inside each cycle.

STAGE 04

Launch

1–2 weeks. Load testing, observability, rollback plan and a documented handover.

STAGE 05

Operate

Ongoing. Monitoring, patching and continuous delivery under an AMC retainer.

Questions

Choosing between services

Do I have to pick one service, or can they be combined?

Almost every engagement combines several. A SaaS build typically pulls in custom software, API integration and cloud work under one statement of work and one team lead. You are quoted for the outcome, not billed separately per service line.

What is the smallest project you will take?

It depends on the shape of the work rather than a floor figure. A new build has to carry discovery, architecture and a production launch, so it needs a problem worth solving that way. Scoped work on a system you already run starts smaller — a single integration, a cloud migration, a two-week AI evaluation — because the scope is already known and there is less to coordinate. We don't take website projects under $3,000 at all. Maintenance and AMC retainers sit lower again because the work is continuous rather than a build.

How do you decide which technology to use?

By what your team can maintain after we leave, not by what is newest. If your engineers know Laravel, we don't hand you a Go microservice estate. Where you have no in-house team, we default to TypeScript, PostgreSQL and a managed cloud runtime because hiring for that stack is easiest anywhere in the world.

Can you work alongside our existing development team?

Yes. We run as an embedded squad inside your process — your board, your standups, your code review rules — or as a separate workstream with a defined API contract between us. Both are common; the second causes fewer arguments when the two teams use different stacks.

Which service should I start with if I only have an idea?

A discovery engagement inside custom software or SaaS development. Two to three weeks produces a scope, an architecture, a costed plan and a clickable prototype. It's paid work, it's yours to take elsewhere, and it's the cheapest way to find out whether the expensive part is worth doing.

Do you offer fixed-price contracts across all services?

For anything with a written specification, yes. For AI work, discovery-stage products and legacy modernisation we recommend time and materials with a capped sprint budget — fixed price on an unknown forces both sides to pad the estimate and argue about scope later. Compare the models.

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