Scorchsoft
ChatGPT & AI App Development Services

Build AI-Powered Apps, Portals and Business Tools

Scorchsoft helps businesses integrate ChatGPT, OpenAI, and modern AI tools into apps, portals, workflows, and digital platforms that solve real business problems.

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How we work · VelocitySprint®

Bespoke software, without the usual risks

Software projects usually go wrong in three ways: the bill keeps growing, nobody can see progress, and you're locked in. VelocitySprint® is designed to stop all three.

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Daily progress through the week. Every Friday is your call: continue, change or stop.

Pay for output, not hours

Each deliverable is scoped and priced in OutputUnit® units, a unit of finished work rather than time spent. The bill doesn't grow because a task took longer.

See progress every day

Short sprints with daily updates and working software early, so you judge real screens rather than status reports.

Escape Hatch Friday™

You're never locked into a sprint that stopped making sense on Tuesday. Change direction or stop at the end of any week.

What will it cost? Bespoke builds under £7.5k are rare. Every sprint is priced before it starts and payments are phased with delivery, so you agree the cost of each step before it begins.

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AI Development Agency in Birmingham

If you would like to consider us to develop your project, then please let us know what you want to achieve, and we will let you know our ideas and an indication of cost.

ChatGPT and modern AI tools can do far more than answer questions in a chat window. When they are connected properly to your app, portal, database, CRM, documents, or internal workflows, they can help users find information, automate repetitive tasks, generate content, process data, and make your software feel significantly more intelligent.

Scorchsoft helps businesses build practical AI-powered apps using tools such as ChatGPT, OpenAI, Claude, and other large language models. We are a UK-based development team with over fifteen years of experience building complex apps, portals, integrations, and scalable software platforms, so we can help you move beyond AI hype and turn useful ideas into working products.

We are a strong fit for projects where AI needs to be embedded into real software, not just bolted on as a novelty feature. That could include AI assistants, customer support tools, writing assistants, intelligent search, document processing, product description generation, workflow automation, internal knowledge tools, AI agents, or apps that transform unstructured data into something your business can actually use.

Our approach combines AI implementation, app development, UX/UI design, API integration, security awareness, and practical commercial thinking. We can help you identify the right AI use cases, choose the right technical approach, build the surrounding software, and integrate it with your existing systems. If you are exploring an AI app idea, book a free strategy call and we will help you work out what is realistic, valuable, and worth building first.

Got an App Idea? Let's Build It Together

Tell us what you want to achieve with AI and we will come back with our ideas, a realistic plan and an indication of cost.

In our clients' words

On time, on budget, and sold before it was finished

4.840+ Google Reviews
  • “It was delivered on time - early in fact - and on budget. Highly recommend.”

    Dragonfly Intelligence logoRebecca PalserDragonfly Intelligence
  • “We were able to sell the product for use by our first customer before the product was finished.”

    Since launching, they’ve secured a major television network as a client.

    Aimee SpinksMD, ImageApprovals.com
  • “They have been accurate with timelines and budget, delivering a solid product.”

    A web portal for monitoring patients remotely while they use a novel at-home medical device.

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Frequently Asked App Development Questions

Here are answers to common questions we receive about our app development and quoting process:

Yes. We can build custom apps, portals, and internal tools that use ChatGPT or other AI models to support real business workflows. That might include an AI assistant, customer support tool, content generator, intelligent search feature, document analysis system, or a more complex AI-powered product.

ChatGPT can often be integrated with websites, mobile apps, web apps, portals, CRMs, databases, APIs, documents, spreadsheets, support systems, and other business tools. The best approach depends on what data the AI needs, what actions it should perform, and how much control, security, and reliability your business requires.

Yes, in many cases. If you already have an app, portal, or software platform, we can review the existing system and advise whether AI features can be added safely and sensibly. Sometimes that means integrating directly into the current product, while in other cases it may be better to build a separate AI-powered module or workflow around it.

We can build AI features such as chatbots, AI assistants, writing tools, smart search, document summarisation, text rewriting, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, image generation workflows, product description generation, translation tools, content moderation, data extraction, recommendations, and AI agents that help automate business processes.

Yes. We can build AI-powered chatbot features that help answer common questions, guide users through processes, support customer service teams, and reduce repetitive manual work. The important bit is designing the chatbot around your actual business logic, data, escalation rules, and support requirements, rather than just throwing a generic bot onto the site and hoping for the best.

Yes, but it needs to be done carefully. We can help build AI systems that use your documents, knowledge base, database content, or structured business data to produce more relevant answers. Depending on the use case, this may involve search, retrieval-augmented generation, permissions, data preparation, API integrations, and safeguards to reduce unreliable outputs.

Yes. Many of the best AI opportunities are internal, where AI can help teams summarise information, process documents, draft content, classify enquiries, extract data, support decision-making, or automate repetitive workflows. These projects can be especially valuable because they target operational efficiency rather than chasing shiny AI theatre.

Yes. If you have an AI idea but are not sure whether it is technically realistic or commercially worthwhile, we can help you assess the use case, risks, expected value, data requirements, likely cost, and sensible first version. This is often the best starting point before committing to a larger AI development project.

No. ChatGPT and OpenAI are common choices, but we can also work with other AI models and services where they are a better fit. The right technology depends on your goals, the type of data involved, the user experience you want, performance requirements, cost sensitivity, and any privacy or governance considerations.

The cost depends on the complexity of the app, the number of AI features, the surrounding software, the integrations required, the quality of the data, and the level of design, testing, security, and support needed. We can usually give an early ballpark estimate once we understand what the AI needs to do and how it fits into the wider product or workflow.

A focused AI prototype or first version can sometimes be built in a small number of development sprints, while larger AI apps with complex integrations, custom workflows, admin systems, data pipelines, or advanced user permissions will usually need a more structured phased approach. We can help you choose a sensible first milestone so the project does not turn into a giant AI-flavoured lasagne.

Yes. We can build AI features into mobile apps, web apps, SaaS platforms, portals, dashboards, internal systems, and broader digital platforms. Often, the visible AI feature is only one part of the project, with the real value coming from the surrounding app logic, data structure, integrations, and user experience.

Yes. We can help design and build AI agents and automation workflows that assist with tasks such as handling enquiries, preparing drafts, extracting information, generating summaries, routing work, or supporting internal operations. We focus on controlled, useful automation where the system has clear boundaries and sensible human oversight.

No AI system should be treated as magically perfect. We can design AI features with safeguards, grounding, retrieval, validation steps, structured prompts, user permissions, and clear escalation routes, but the right level of control depends on the risk of the use case. For serious business workflows, the boring governance bits matter — annoyingly, they are usually what make the clever bits safe enough to use.

If you are thinking about building an AI-powered app, adding ChatGPT to an existing product, or exploring how AI could improve your business workflows, you can book a free strategy call with Scorchsoft. We will talk through your goals, likely options, risks, and the most sensible next step.

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Tell us what you want to build

An idea or a problem is enough; no specification needed. We'll come back with our thoughts, a realistic plan and a rough cost estimate.

We aim to reply within one working day a free 15-minute call a plan and a ballpark.

Andrew Ward, Managing Director of Scorchsoft

Andrew Ward

Founder & Managing Director, Scorchsoft

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