Flame Development is the trading name of Martin Brooksbank — a one-person bespoke web studio operating out of the United Kingdom since 2012. Same hands on the keyboard the whole time. (UK Business Reg. 16791982).
The prime principle is get it right the first time. That way everyone is happy and life can go on the way it should.
Your system is generally your livelihood, and developing that system is mine. The only way that works is by taking a step back to look at a project as a whole — not just the screen we happen to be on today, but how it fits with the spreadsheet Carol on accounts has been quietly maintaining for nine years.
Most of the work is bespoke web applications: CMSes that fit, CRMs that replace spreadsheets, e-commerce that does the thing Shopify can't, and the integrations that hold it all together. Some sites are simpler — a brochure, a small catalogue, a portal — and that's fine too. The thinking is the same: build it so it lasts a decade, and the upkeep cost stays low all the way through.
Thirteen years in, the work has a steady rhythm. Quotes are fixed and in plain English. Replies arrive inside two business days. There are no discovery decks with stock photos of people pointing at whiteboards.
Drop a line. A quick paragraph is plenty — we'll come back with questions, then a quote.