We look after your organisation's Ruby on Rails applications.
Optimise, secure, upgrade, and maintain the Ruby on Rails applications, databases, and infrastructure that power your business.
All delivered using our simple, flat-rate pricing plans.
Software Consultation
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; or even just fixing a one-off code bug!
Consultations can be booked as required or retained on an ongoing monthly basis according to the needs of your organisation.
Call scheduled to suit you via a simple booking system.
Pre-call Questionnaire to help identify key topics for our call.
Actionable Advice.
After your call, you'll receive an email summary of our notes, and recommendations for next steps.
Service Plan
Our flagship service for organisations building their business on Rails. Service Plans deliver continuous updates, improvements, and optimisations for your Ruby on Rails apps.
Unlimited one-to-one access.
Get advice via our project management system, online chat, email, and phone; all with business-hours response.
Initial application review.
Your Service Plan plan includes our initial Application Review service.Ongoing maintenance and improvements.
Security updates, third-party integrations, and Rails upgrades.No more quotes and budget overrun.
Pay a simple fixed monthly price for unlimited requests.No more time-draining meetings. Everything handled through our simple project management system.
Continuous Improvement.
We’ll always be improving and optimising your code as we work.Simple Project Management.
We use a simple card-based project management tool, to communicate with you and manage your project asynchronously.
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Automation Consulting
Our Automation Consulting service examines the key workflows and processes in your business, and identifies where software can be used to optimise them.
We'll then build the systems, and any custom code, to automate those processes, freeing up your valuable time to concentrate on growing your business.
Business Processes Audit
We’ll review the systems and processes you currently use in your business and provide feedback and advise on where they can be optimised and improved through software automation.
Automation Systems
We’ll use best-practice systems and tooling to build custom automations tailored to your business’ needs, and write any necessary code to “glue” services together.
Support & Guidance
We’ll guide you through the automation systems we build for you. We can also be on-hand to help out with further development and improvements via the Adviser Plan.
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Application Review
A one-time, 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.
Adviser Plan
Fractional CTO (fCT) and consulting services for ongoing monthly advice and support for technology leaders and business owners, with access via online chat, phone, or email.
Unlimited one-to-one access.
Get strategic level technical advice and support via our project management system, online chat, email, and phone; all with business-hours response.Initial application review.
Your Adviser plan includes our initial Application Review service.Regular one-on-one calls.
Discuss technical strategy, and how you can make use of cutting edge technology in your business.Code Reviews and Auditing. Reviews, auditing and best-practice recommendations for code committed by your team.
Assistance for your development team.
Senior level support for your team in debugging issues, planning features, and applying best-practice to your business’ code.Proof-of-concept and demonstration code.
Help your team, and tackle complicated requirements.
“We recently partnered with Plymouth Software to upgrade one of the University's existing Ruby on Rails applications to Rails 8.
With their expertise, they successfully updated the full stack of our application and its dependencies, and migrated the app to a new hosting architecture. ”
— Paul O’Neill
University of Exeter
“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
Enterprise Solutions
“What really sets Plymouth Software apart is their communication and support throughout the project. They kept us in the loop at every stage, providing clear and fast responses to our questions, and resolving any issues we found as part of the [Rails application] upgrade.”
— Nathan Burden
Universtity of Exeter
“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
“To have someone with Plymouth Software’s expertise and knowledge advising me has enabled me to have confidence that the changes I am making are worthwhile, and will have 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
MB Hypnotherapy
Established in 2010, Plymouth Software is an independent software consultancy.
As well as expertise in Ruby on Rails, we have experience a crafting business-critical software solutions across multiple technologies.
For 15 years, we have worked with teams from multiple industries and sectors, ranging from start-up to enterprise scale organisations. We pride ourselves on providing clear, independent, and actionable advice and services to help you make the right technology decisions for your business.
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.
We can help you with…
Software Engineering.
With specialist expertise in Ruby on Rails application design, code maintenance, security, upgrades, and improvements.
Data Engineering.
Consolidate, transform, optimise, and prepare your data for analysis and insights, and to help you make better decisions.
Business Process Automation.
Take advantage of connected modern software to automate and streamline the day-to-day tasks in your business. We will design, build, and support you with tailored automation solutions using ready-made and bespoke tooling.
Cloud Infrastructure.
Take advantage of cloud architecture, and set up strong, long-lasting maintenance processes.
Expertise in AWS 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.
Developer Experience (DevOps / DevEx.)
We’ll help you optimise processes, providing expertise and guidance in application architecture, best-practice development processes, security and data protection, and more.
Ready to get started?
Book your free consultation call to discuss how we can help your organisation.