.NET, frontend and hosting, for businesses & agencies
How we build.
Not a menu of services: one engineering practice with a bar everything has to clear. Rob scopes the project and stays involved when associates join the delivery.
.NET platforms
The backend nobody should have to think about.
Half of what we build has no CMS in it at all: APIs, internal systems, integrations and the services behind someone else's product. New builds start on the current LTS release of .NET, API-first, with versioned endpoints, structured logging and health checks from the first commit rather than bolted on when something breaks.
Greenfield platforms
APIs, portals and SaaS backends, with a domain model that survives contact with real data and EF Core over Postgres or SQL Server, tuned by hand where the ORM stops being the easy answer.
Modernisation
.NET Framework estates moved to modern .NET in planned phases, with an API layer extracted first so the thing stays shippable the whole way through.
Integrations & background work
Payments, CRM, PIM, identity, search. Hangfire queues and scheduled jobs that fail safely and can be replayed, rather than re-run by hand at midnight.
Frontend
Your design, built faithfully.
React and Next.js frontends built to the design you hand us, to the pixel and to the interaction. Server-rendered where it matters, accessible to WCAG 2.2 AA as standard, with performance budgets agreed up front rather than apologised for later.
React & Next.js builds
Server-rendered, statically generated or hybrid, chosen per page, not per fashion.
Design-system faithful
We build what was designed. Deviations get raised, not silently shipped.
Static templates
Frontend templates to slot into another team's backend workflow, if that's all you need.
The bar
Every project clears this. No exceptions.
These aren't aspirations. They're the working defaults on every engagement, whatever its size.
Reviewed, always
No code reaches a client environment without a second senior pair of eyes.
Tested, not just built
Every backend we run ships with a test project, and so does this website. Tests are part of the work, never a line item you can decline.
CI/CD from day one
Automated builds, tests and deployments before feature one is written.
Staging that matches prod
You sign off on an environment that behaves like the real thing.
Accessible by default
WCAG 2.2 AA as the baseline, not a paid extra.
Performance budgets
Page-weight and Core Web Vitals targets agreed up front and tested against.
Documented handover
Readmes, runbooks and architecture notes: you're never hostage to us.
Hosting
And we keep it running.
Azure-first hosting sized to your actual traffic, not a shared-tier guess, with 24/7 monitoring and a named developer who knows the estate. Available standalone or folded into a care plan.
- Azure-first, AWS where it fits
- 24/7 monitoring & alerting
- Sized from real traffic metrics
- Standalone or folded into a care plan
Questions
Before you scope it with us.
- Which versions of .NET do you build on?
- New .NET builds start on the current LTS release. We can maintain an older version already in your estate and plan its move to a supported release. We will not start a new project on a release approaching end of life.
- Can you modernise a .NET Framework application without a full rewrite?
- Usually, yes. A .NET Framework estate can often move to modern .NET in planned phases, with an API layer extracted before functional slices migrate. That lets the application stay shippable during the move. Sometimes a full rewrite is the honest answer; we will say so after looking at the estate.
- Do you build to designs we provide, or do you design too?
- We build to the design you hand us, to the pixel and to the interaction. We are an engineering practice, not a design studio. Where a design cannot be built as drawn, usually an accessibility or responsive edge case, we raise it with you rather than silently shipping something different.
- What accessibility standard do you work to?
- WCAG 2.2 AA is the baseline on every project, included in the price rather than sold as an extra. That covers keyboard operability, colour contrast, focus visibility, semantic structure and reduced-motion support, tested with automated tooling and manual keyboard passes before sign-off.
- How is hosting priced?
- Per estate. Helitz sizes hosting from your actual traffic and resource profile. A transactional platform at peak and a brochure site have no business on the same plan. Hosting is available standalone or folded into a care plan alongside monitoring and patching, with retained developer hours depending on the plan.
- What happens if we want to take the work in-house later?
- You take it. The code lives in your repositories throughout, with readmes, runbooks and architecture notes written as we go. The team who maintains the project after us should be able to do so without us. That is a deliberate design goal, not a courtesy.
Scope it with the person
who'll build it.
No account managers, no hand-offs. Tell us what needs building and we'll give you a straight answer on fit, timeline and cost.