■ About · Siftware

Twenty years of building apps

We build the app, keep it running, and run the server it lives on. We've done all three since 2006.

■ 01 · Origin

Siftware Ltd started on 12 April 2006. Our registered office is Powys House, on the market square in Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, in mid Wales. We've worked remote-first for over ten years, with the team spread across several countries.

For most of that time we've built web apps for organisations that depend on them, and kept other people's apps running: apps whose developers had moved on, which we made portable, audited and looked after, often for years.

These days we build more than ever: an educator site on Salesforce Experience Cloud and, over the last two years with AI in the loop, our own platform Siftware Dev on the web and iPhone, a health app on iPhone and a Garmin watch, and the Permaculture Academy's Android app. Carefully: tests first, and a person reading every change.

Underneath all of it, the servers. We run our own, all of it written down in code, and we run our clients' apps the same way.

■ 02 · The named humans

■ Founder · Since 2006

Darren Beale

I've been building for the web since before the dot com crash: custom applications, and the racks of servers in London data centres they ran on. I founded Siftware in 2006.

In the last year I've built Siftware Dev, the platform we run the company on, and its iPhone app; a health app for iPhone and a Garmin watch; the Permaculture Academy's Android app and the backend behind it; and the tooling that runs our own servers. All of it with AI in the loop, and a person reading every change.

If you've got an app that needs building, or one that needs keeping running, I'd like to hear about it.

I've been writing about building, servers and stuff since 1998 at bealers.com.

I've been building apps, and running the servers under them, since before broadband. These days I build more than ever.

■ Head of Operations · With us 7 years

Sara Chandler

Sara is primary customer contact and is responsible for maximising our client and commercial relationships. She keeps the work flowing through the business and with the developers.

She's also the product manager for Siftware Dev, and its primary client: she runs the business on it every day, so what she needs is what we build next.

Having previously been a client of Siftware (whilst she was the MD of a London design agency), Sara has been with the team for 7 years and brings a robustness of senior-level operations to our business.

Her diverse background, both on the client and service side, includes a stint in-house as Head of Marketing at Ernst & Young.

■ Closing

We're developers who'll build your app, keep it running, and run the servers it lives on.

Every app's different, so we price after a call rather than on a web page. Tell us what you've got and we'll tell you straight whether we're the right people for it.

Want to talk it through?

If you'd like to see if Siftware is a good fit for you and your project, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

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