The tool you need probably doesn't exist yet.
AI assistants, custom WordPress plugins, web apps and integrations — built in-house, one business at a time. If something off the shelf already does the job, we will tell you. When it doesn’t, we build the thing that does.
- In the industry
- Fifteen years
- Built in-house
- Every line
- Live AI build
- Maxbeam Advisor
- Reply time
- 1 business day
Four kinds of custom build.
Most projects are one of these. A few are two of them stitched together.
AI assistants that know what you sell
A chat assistant built around your products and your policies, rather than a generic bot bolted to the corner of the page. It asks what the customer is actually trying to do, narrows the range down to a shortlist, and hands over to a person the moment the question stops being about products.
- Answers from your product range, not the open internet
- Recommends and compares, instead of just deflecting
- Reference number on every conversation
- Handover to a real person on request
Custom WordPress plugins
For when the off-the-shelf plugin is bloated, abandoned, or simply does not exist. Something built for one job is smaller, faster, and does not change under you when somebody else's roadmap moves.
- Purpose-built layout and display components
- Custom post types, fields and admin screens
- One small plugin instead of three heavy ones
- The code ships with the site and is yours
Web apps and customer portals
For when a website is not the whole answer — the parts of a business that live behind a login rather than on a page.
- Client logins and dashboards
- Quoting and booking flows
- Internal tools that save someone a day a week
- Built on the stack you already run
Integrations and automation
Getting the systems you already pay for to talk to each other, so nobody is copying data between two browser tabs.
- Booking and CRM systems embedded into the site
- Payments, stock and shipping kept in sync
- Email and marketing platform hookups
- Scheduled jobs that run without anyone remembering
How a build starts.
Strategy call
A complimentary 30-minute call. You describe the problem; we tell you whether it needs building at all. Often the honest answer is that a setting or an existing plugin will do it.
Scope
We write down what it does, what it deliberately does not do, and what it costs — before anyone opens an editor.
Build
Built in-house and shown to you as it goes, on a staging site you can click through. Not a slide deck at the end.
Launch and iterate
It goes live, then the first round of changes comes from how people actually use it rather than from guesses.
Custom functionality in the wild.
Three builds you can go and click on right now.
AI assistant + custom pluginsMaxbeam Australia
Max, an AI torch advisor that asks what the light is for, narrows the range down to a shortlist, gives every conversation a reference code and hands over to a person on request — plus four purpose-built plugins driving the product, brand and post carousels and the coverflow.
Booking + client loginPro DJs Australia
The booking system and a branded client login wired into the site, so a new enquiry and an existing client each land where they should without ever leaving the brand.
Embedded booking flowSilvercat Wedding Cars
The quote and booking system built straight into the hero, so the first thing a visitor sees is the form rather than a link to somewhere else.
Where to start.
Not sure you need one
The 30-minute strategy call is free and there is no deck at the end of it. Bring the problem rather than a spec.
Book a call →Already have a site
Most of this bolts onto what you already have. If the site itself needs work first, that is a website project, and we will say so.
See website packages →The questions we get most.
Is the AI assistant just ChatGPT in a box?
What does an AI assistant cost to run?
Why build a plugin instead of buying one?
Will I own the code?
Do I need an app, or just a better website?
Can you work on something someone else started?
Got something worth building?
Tell us the problem. If it does not need building, we will say so — and that call is free either way.