We are Hocsoft, a six-person software team off Commercial Road. We write the code, then we write the notes that let someone else pick it up when we are gone.
By then the first developer has moved on, the person who wrote the requirements has changed jobs, and the only complete picture of how the thing works lives in someone's head. Usually a head you are no longer paying.
So we build for that month. Plain stacks with long support windows. Decisions written down where they happened, including the awkward ones. A repository you can hand to any competent developer in the country.
We do not take on work we cannot finish, and we do not bill for the meetings. If a project needs a team of twelve, we will say so and give you two names worth ringing.
Prices are London rates for a scoped piece of work. Every figure below is a starting point, not a quote — we give you a fixed number after the scoping week, and we honour it.
Fixed-price work is invoiced in stages against agreed milestones. Nothing is taken on this website — we quote by email or on the phone first, and payment terms come with the proposal.
Five days, paid, fixed fee. We map the actual problem and leave you with a written specification and a real number. It is yours whether or not you carry on with us.
Working software every two weeks on a link you can open on your phone. No status decks. If a fortnight goes badly, you hear about it that Friday.
Repository, documentation, deployment runbook and a recorded session with whoever inherits it. Access is transferred to your accounts, not held in ours.
Take the retainer or take the code elsewhere. Both are fine. We would rather be the team you choose to keep than the one you cannot get rid of.
Two of us used to work at an agency that sold fixed-price builds and then made its margin on change requests. One client — a distributor out near Barking — paid for a warehouse system, got it, and then found that changing a shipping rule cost £900 and took eleven days. Nobody in their building could open the code. That was not a bug. That was the business model.
We left, badly and with some burnt bridges, and spent most of the first year taking rescue work nobody else wanted. It turns out that reading other people's abandoned code teaches you exactly what to write down.
Hocsoft is run by Discloura Ltd from a studio in Stepney. Six people: four who write code, one who tests it properly, one who talks to you. We take on four to five projects at a time, which is why we sometimes say no.
Fifteen minutes is usually enough for both of us to work out whether we are the right people. If we are not, we will point you at someone who is.
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Bespoke software development services: custom business systems, web applications, mobile applications, systems and API integration, technical audits and rescue work, and ongoing support and maintenance. We provide services to businesses and to individuals acting in a business capacity.
Unless a proposal says otherwise, the fee does not cover third-party licences, hosting or domain charges, paid API usage, content or copywriting, or the cost of hardware. Those are yours to buy, in your own accounts.
Nothing is bought on this website. Prices shown are indicative starting points, not offers. Work begins only after we issue a written proposal or statement of work and you accept it in writing. The accepted proposal, together with these terms, forms the contract between us.
Written quotes are valid for 30 days from the date of issue. After that we may reprice, and we will tell you why.
We invoice in stages against agreed milestones, or monthly in arrears for retained support. Invoices are payable within 14 days of the invoice date by bank transfer. We do not take card payments on this website. Late payment may attract statutory interest and compensation under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998.
We deliver in two-week increments to an environment you can reach, with the dates set out in the proposal. Those dates assume you give us the access, content, test data and decisions the proposal lists, within five working days of us asking. Where you cannot, the timeline moves by the same number of days and we will confirm the new dates in writing. If we are late for our own reasons, we make the time up at our cost.
Either party may end a project on 30 days' written notice; you pay for work completed and for anything already committed on your behalf up to the end of the notice period. A scoping week may be cancelled up to five working days before it starts for a full refund. If you are a consumer contracting away from our premises, you have 14 days from the date of the contract to cancel without giving a reason under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013; if you ask us to begin within that period you must pay for what we have done by the time you cancel.
Milestone fees for work already delivered and accepted are non-refundable. Where a milestone is not delivered, or is rejected in writing on reasonable grounds and we cannot put it right within 14 days, we refund the fee for that milestone.
On payment in full for a milestone, the intellectual property in the deliverables for that milestone passes to you, together with the source code, documentation and access credentials. We retain our pre-existing tools and libraries and grant you a perpetual licence to use them within the deliverables.
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Last updated: 21 August 2026.