Real projects.Built and in daily use.

No mock-ups or promises, but software North-Forge built and that real businesses use every day.

For each project you read what the business ran into, what North-Forge built, how it works in practice and what it delivers. Want to see what else is possible? Have a look at the examples under What is possible.

Custom software for a hair salon

Hair salon: website, online booking and salon system

The problem

A hair salon paid for three separate software subscriptions and had an outdated website. Bookings, stock and customer details lived in different places.

What North-Forge built

A mobile-first website with online booking and a custom salon system for bookings, stock and customer management, replacing the separate subscriptions.

How it works

Customers pick a treatment, staff member and time on their phone, and the booking lands straight in the salon system. The same system tracks stock and shows each customer's history. One login, one overview, and no more three separate monthly bills.

Result

€700+: saved per year on subscriptions
3 → 1: systems, everything in one place

Custom software for staffing

Staffing agency: vacancies and profile matching

The problem

A staffing agency wrote vacancies by hand, searched CVs one by one and hunted for new assignments itself.

What North-Forge built

Software that finds vacancies, matches the right profiles from the agency's own database and writes a vacancy text when there is no match.

How it works

New assignments are collected automatically and compared with the profiles in the agency's own database. The software shows which candidates fit best. When nobody fits, a draft vacancy is ready within minutes, so the agency only has to review it.

Result

hours → minutes: for a vacancy and profile matching
significantly higher: match quality, fewer mismatches

AI and document processing

AI chatbot for customer questions

The problem

The same questions arrived by phone and mail every day. The answers lived in videos, manuals or someone's head, not in one central place.

What North-Forge built

An AI chatbot that answers from the company's own documents and manuals, available 24/7 and in every language.

How it works

Knowledge from manuals, documents and videos is bundled in one place. The chatbot answers questions from that information, in the customer's language and at any time of day. Questions that really need a person still reach a staff member.

Result

up to 95%: of routine questions handled without staff
24/7: answers, also outside office hours

Having custom software built

Off-the-shelf packages force a business to adapt to the software. Custom software works the other way round: the software fits the process. North-Forge builds tailored software for SMEs, salons and sole traders stuck in spreadsheets, separate subscriptions or manual work. The projects above show what that delivers.

Problem first

North-Forge first maps where time and money are lost. Only then does building start.

A working demo, fast

Within days or weeks there is a demo, so you see how the solution works in practice.

Full ownership

No open-ended hourly contracts. The software and code are yours, without per-user licence fees.

When is custom software better than an off-the-shelf package?

When you combine several packages, retype data by hand or the package does not fit how you work. For the salon, one system replaced three subscriptions and saves over €700 a year.

What does custom software cost?

It depends on the scope. After a short intake you receive an honest, fixed-scope proposal within one working day.

How long does it take to build custom software?

A focused tool or first version is often ready within 1 to 2 weeks. Larger systems are delivered in phases.

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