We are an independent software consultancy that supports business owners and technical teams building their business-critical applications on Ruby on Rails and AWS Cloud Infrastructure.

With over a decade of experience working with Ruby on Rails and software platforms, we have the expertise to help your team develop, secure, maintain, and consistently improve your applications to meet your business goals.

All delivered using our simple, flat-rate monthly pricing plans.

Software and Data Services to Optimise and Grow Your Business.

“Simply the best external development team I have worked with.”

Allen, C.T.O at Leesman

Our Services

Consultation Call

Using our expertise in Ruby on Rails and other core technologies, we will help you and your organisation with all stages of digital product planning, prototyping, and development.

After your call, you'll receive an email summary of our notes, and recommendations for next steps.

£950 + VAT

Application Review

An in-depth audit for your Ruby on Rails application and architecture.

We'll carry out a full review of your code, security, hosting and infrastructure, and adherence to best practice.

You'll receive a complete, jargon-free report of our findings, and our recommendations.

£3950 + VAT

Adviser Plan

Ongoing monthly guidance and support for technical leaders and business owners, with access via online chat, phone, or email.

  • Unlimited one-to-one access via our project management system, online chat, email, and phone; all with business-hours response.

  • Initial application review. Your Advisor plan includes our initial Application Review service.

  • Regular one-on-one calls to discuss technical strategy and implementation.

  • Reviews and auditing of code committed by your team.

  • Assistance for your development team in debugging issues, planning features, and applying best-practice development techniques.

  • Proof-of-concept and demonstration code to help your team, and tackle complicated requirements.

  • Monthly insights and industry updates.

Custom Monthly Pricing

“Working with Plymouth Software feels like we have a skilled developer and web consultant as part of our own team.

As well as being a safe pair of hands in maintaining our site, they are great sounding board for ideas and improvements.”

— Samantha Starkey
Plymouth GAIN

“Plymouth Software has been a great find for us. It is encouraging to see such fantastic talent in Ruby on Rails in the South West.”

— Richard Stobart
Unboxed Consulting

“Plymouth Software delivered not only an excellent product, but really added value to our original proposal for a National Trust for Scotland mobile application.”

— Colan Mehaffey
The National Trust for Scotland

“In just a few hours, Plymouth Software's consultation revolutionised the way we operate our software business, saving us £000's in time and resources.”

— Nick Sanham
Aspex Research & Technology Ltd

“Plymouth Software have provided development consultancy for two high profile projects at Plymouth University.

They fundamentally understand and deliver using Agile, allowing customers to reap the benefits of fast, high-quality software delivery and rapid business benefit.”

— Joe Grant
Plymouth University

“Plymouth Software provided me with a clear and concise breakdown of my existing app with recommendations on how to improve it.

To have someone with their expertise and knowledge, advising me has enabled me to have confidence that the changes I am making are worthwhile and will make a very positive impact.

Working with Plymouth Software has had a huge, positive impact on the strategy and implementation of this side of my business.”

— Mark Bowden
Mark Bowden Ltd.

We Work With

Business owners and founders We work directly with you, acting as your technology partner or fractional CTO to provide expertise and guidance in decisions that affect your business’ software and technology architecture.

Small, Agile Development Teams We’ll work with you and your team to support and implement best-practice software development processes. From improving the developer experience and impementing continuous delivery to offering one-to-one guidance and technical support for your development team.

CTOs and Technology Directors We provide a unbiased, outside perspective to offer valuable guidance and direction to ensure that the technology being implemented aligns with the business goals and strategy.

You'll be building modern web applications using Ruby and Rails on AWS infrastructure. We can help you optimise your development process, delivery pipeline, take advantage of cloud architecture, and set up strong maintenance processes.

With over a decade working with Ruby on Rails, we have expertise in what it takes to develop, secure, maintain, and constantly improve your applications.

AWS Cloud Infrastructure Expertise means we can design, build, and deploy the right composition of AWS services to power your businesses’ needs. We’ll help you leverage AWS to reduce maintenance and operational costs and time, and deliver the critical information and insights to help your business grow.

We do this by helping you and your development team optimise processes, providing expertise and guidance in application architecture, best-practice development processes, security and data protection, and more.

Let's talk about how we can help your organisation.