Veris Labs is a UK software company that designs and builds apps and business systems for small and growing businesses, shaped around how you actually work. We built Old Hands, a two-sided trades marketplace, end to end. And Veris Growth, our own product, runs your marketing.
Bespoke software is built for one business rather than sold to thousands, so it follows how that business already works instead of the other way round. Veris Labs builds custom apps, platforms, integrations and internal systems for UK businesses. Most companies should buy off the shelf rather than build, and we will tell you so, but some processes are the reason customers choose you.
Right, the tour starts here, in my workshop. Fair warning though: if off-the-shelf software would do the job, I will say so rather than sell you a build.
We pressure-test the idea, map the journeys and shape something people will actually use, before a line of code is written.
Bespoke web and mobile applications on solid modern foundations: clean architecture, secure by design and made to last.
We build intelligence in where it pays for itself, pairing modern AI models with your own data to remove work nobody wants to do.
We wire your existing systems together, from your CRM and accounting software to payment rails and HMRC, so information stops being copied by hand.
Multi-sided systems with payments, calendars, profiles and reviews: the moving parts that turn an app into a working marketplace.
From first release to production and beyond: deployment, monitoring and iteration so it keeps improving after go-live.
Not sure which side of that line you are on? Our guide on buying, subscribing or building walks through the decision honestly, including the cases where the answer is to keep what you have.
A clear, collaborative path that keeps you in the loop and gets working software in front of real users fast.
We dig into the problem, the users and the opportunity, and agree exactly what success looks like.
Journeys, interface and architecture. You see and shape it before we build it.
Engineering in focused iterations, with working software you can try at every step.
We ship to production, monitor closely and keep iterating as it finds its feet.
Old Hands is a platform we designed and built from scratch. It is the clearest example of the bespoke side of what we do, because almost none of it could have been bought off the shelf.
This one is mine. Escrow payments, a live booking calendar and a tax wizard for first-timers going self-employed. None of that came out of a box, which is rather the point of showing it to you.
Old Hands connects skilled sole traders with the customers who need them. It needed everything a marketplace needs and several things most do not, including payments held until a job is finished and a tax setup wizard for workers going self-employed for the first time.
Alongside client builds, we make software for the jobs small businesses most often end up doing badly by hand. Veris Growth is ours: AI marketing software for businesses without a marketing team.
This one is mine. Tell me about the business once, and I turn it into a plan, then the posts, visuals and campaigns to deliver it.
Veris Growth is AI marketing software for small businesses that do not have a marketing team. Veris Growth turns what you know about your business into a tailored marketing strategy, then produces the content, branded visuals and campaigns to deliver it, with one central brand profile governing everything.
Ten calculators and ten guides for running a UK small business, covering tax, pricing, hiring, VAT, getting paid and getting found. No signup and no email wall, because the quickest way to show you how we think is to be useful first.
End of the tour. Take something useful with you: the calculators are free, there is no email wall, and every one of them shows its working so you can check it rather than trust it.
Sole trader versus limited company, day rates, the true cost of hiring, VAT thresholds, pricing and more. Every one shows its working.
The decisions behind the calculators, explained for the person running the business rather than for their accountant.
What we are building, what we found when we checked the numbers, and what we would do differently next time.
Let's talk
Whether it needs a bespoke build or Veris Growth already covers it, the conversation starts the same way. Tell us what is taking the time.
