Web Design & Development in the West Midlands
Scorchsoft is a Birmingham-based web design and development company for organisations that need either a technically complex website or a straightforward site that plays an important role in a wider innovation or growth strategy.
Building for teams across healthcare, logistics, motorsport and manufacturing
Choose the right next step
Plan, build, automate and support digital products with a service matched to where you are now.
Plan & design
Shape the idea, reduce uncertainty and make the next investment decision clear.
Software development
Build dependable customer and business software around your goals.
- Web apps & portalsWhen users need secure browser-based software
- Mobile appsWhen the product belongs on iOS or Android
- Rapid MVP developmentWhen speed matters and Velocity Sprints™ suit the work
- APIs & systems integrationWhen existing systems need to exchange data reliably
- Data engineeringWhen apps, reporting, automation or AI need reliable data pipelines
AI & automation
Find valuable AI opportunities, deliver them and improve them over time.
Support & improve
Keep critical software healthy, move it forward and recover work that is stuck.
- Support & maintenanceWhen you need a dependable response and maintenance route
- Momentum ongoing product developmentWhen you need a steady stream of product improvements
- Application hosting & Lifeline supportWhen hosting, monitoring and urgent cover belong together
- App project rescueWhen a build has stalled or gone off track
- Code audit & viability reviewWhen you need evidence before taking on a codebase
Not sure which route fits?
What Our Clients Say
Scorchsoft helped us take our idea for an app and make it a reality. Everything from the planning meeting to decide what we really needed to the project management and execution was great. It was delivered on time - early in fact - and on budget. Highly recommend.
Rebecca PalserDragonfly IntelligenceScorchsoft is a brilliant company with fantastic knowledge of the mobile app industry. From the project management to the development team, they have been the perfect candidate for our project, and we can't thank them enough!
Lance ChorltonGapped OnlineWe're really pleased with the work Scorchsoft has done in developing our web portal! They have been accurate with timelines and budget, delivering a solid product that allows us to monitor and manage patients remotely while they use our novel medical device at-home. The "plan - design - build" approach has worked well and saved us time in the long-run by catching requirements and issues early.
Daniel GreenSensTrainI'm really pleased with how my app came out, it was exactly what I was looking for. The team at Scorchsoft are great at what they do and made the whole process as simple and easy as possible. Being someone who is not very tech savvy the set up and back end operations were done in a great easy to use manner even for myself which makes using my app stress free. Thanks to all the team!
Ruben CarrollMosaic MasterpiecesThe new Flourish Education website has already removed a lot of manual processes, freeing up both schools, candidates and internal employees time. We are delighted with the look and feel which is clean, professional and more engaging. We are also pleased with the decision to have an HD video background on the homepage, and building immediate trust with our clients by giving them a taste of what it looks like in the Flourish Education offices.
James HancocksMarketing Manager, Flourish Education I can't believe how quickly we started to see results with this project. Scorchsoft provided us with graphic-designed mockups of how the app would look once built, and we were able to sell the product for use by our first customer before the product was finished. Since launching in March, we have secured a major television network as a client who now uses Image Approvals to manage the talent approval process for their productions.
Aimee SpinksMD, ImageApprovals.com
Capabilities
Our skilled in-house development team delivers cutting-edge solutions using the latest technologies.
We specialise in building AI-powered apps, complex platforms, and scalable web systems
We're experienced App Developers, and have spent over sixteen years helping businesses — from funded startups to global enterprises — turn ambitious ideas into reliable digital products.
The kind of website work we are best suited to
We are strongest when the website matters to the wider business: because it has technical depth, because it connects to other systems, or because it is a key part of a broader growth and innovation strategy.
Technically complex websites and digital platforms
Some websites are really software products. They may need accounts, search, assessments, calculators, dashboards, integrations, personalised content, workflow automation or data from other systems. That is a natural fit for Scorchsoft because our web design team works alongside experienced software engineers rather than handing designs over to a separate technical supplier.
Control Standard, our own project-control and learning platform, is a good example: the public website, interactive learning, assessments, user accounts and management tools all form part of the same product experience.
Simpler websites that carry strategic weight
A website does not need complicated functionality to be strategically important. We also build focused marketing and corporate sites where the priority is clear positioning, strong information architecture, fast performance, search visibility and a structure that can evolve as the organisation grows.
The Epitomise website case study shows this kind of work: a modern marketing website designed around services, client proof, guides, insights and conversion routes so the site can keep supporting the wider growth strategy.
Static site, CMS or bespoke framework? We choose around the job
We are not locked to one framework or one way of building websites. A relatively simple site with infrequent content changes may be best delivered as a fast static site. Where a marketing or internal team needs to publish and manage content regularly, we normally recommend a content-managed approach.
Our current CMS of choice is Payload CMS. It gives us a modern TypeScript/Next.js foundation, strong content modelling and enough flexibility to build structured sites that can grow into richer digital products. You can also read more about our content-managed website service.
For projects where another architecture is the better fit, we are comfortable working with technologies such as Laravel and Python, including Flask-based applications. The important decision is not which logo appears in the technology stack; it is choosing an approach that suits the product, the team maintaining it, the integrations it needs and how it is likely to evolve.
If the website is one pillar in a broader innovation programme, we can also connect it to portals, mobile apps, AI systems, automations and internal tools rather than treating the website as an isolated project. See our wider website design services for the full approach.
Recent website and digital platform work
Recent Scorchsoft work showing the range from strategically important marketing sites to technically rich web platforms and internal products.
Epitomise
Strategic marketing website built around clear services, client proof, guides, insights and conversion routes.
StartupTools
Scorchsoft's own AI platform for founders and product teams, combining planning, branding, wireframing, investor matching and real-time AI coaching.
Online AGM & Member Voting
A secure member voting and AGM system with magic-link ballots, proxy voting, live quorum and a complete audit trail.
Control Standard Tools
Scorchsoft's own interactive project-control and learning platform with public content, accounts, assessments and workflow tools.
Web design West Midlands: creating innovative websites that deliver a commercial edge
Let us turn your project into the next success story.
Web design west midlands
The design is important, and we take pride in creating good-looking solutions that convert. Most digital projects are 25% graphic design and 75% programming and development. So, do you think it is important for your project to be managed by a company that has a highly technical team?
We think so, which is why we have taken a great deal of care to ensure that we have processes that enable technology innovation, and support the growth of your project over time. We specialise in solving complex problems.
Capability and process
To make getting started with a project easier to understand, we have put together a short list of common online or mobile app features that we have experience making that may apply to your project. For example, your next project may involve the development of a web-based login portal, or maybe a return on investment calculator. We are a UK team based in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, delivering website design and web development projects across the West Midlands and the wider UK.
See our frequently asked questions for more on how we run a project.
Need help building your ideas?
Tell us where you're headed and we'll come back with our thoughts, a realistic plan and a rough cost estimate. Scorchsoft is a UK-based team of app, portal and AI developers, working in-house from Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter.