A new company, built around an old-fashioned idea
DEVNOVA SOLUTIONS LTD is a newly established United Kingdom technology company registered in London. It exists to do two things properly: build software that fits the way an organisation genuinely works, and give honest technical advice — including when that advice is to build nothing.
Company focus
Deliberately narrow, so the work can be done well
The company is new. That is stated plainly rather than disguised, because a claim of long history would be easy to make and impossible to justify.
What a newly established company can offer is attention. Every enquiry receives a considered response rather than a template. Every project has a direct line to the person doing the work. Nothing is delegated into a hierarchy where the original requirement is repeated three times before it reaches anyone technical.
What it cannot offer is a decade of case studies, a large delivery department or the reassurance that comes from a long list of recognisable names. Those things are earned, and pretending to hold them already would undermine the honesty this business is built on.
The service catalogue is deliberately narrow: eight services in four categories, two registered activities, one clear boundary between building software and advising on it. A focused catalogue is what makes it possible to describe each service accurately, price it consistently and deliver it properly.
What is stated on this website
- The company is newly established
- All prices are indicative starting points
- No client names, testimonials or case studies are published, because there are none to publish honestly
- Scenarios shown on this website are clearly labelled as illustrative
- No certifications, awards or partnerships are claimed
- Legal pages state their effective date and are kept current
Approach
How problems are approached
Six positions that shape the first conversation, long before any proposal exists.
Start with the process, not the product
The first question is never which technology to use. It is how the work happens today, who is involved, where it breaks and what the breakage costs. A surprising number of enquiries resolve themselves at this stage.
Say no when no is the honest answer
Some requirements do not need custom software. Some ideas are not viable at the stated budget. Saying so early costs a project and preserves something more useful: a client's trust in what is said next.
Write it down before building it
Scope, deliverables, exclusions and acceptance criteria are agreed in writing. Not as a defensive measure, but because the act of writing them down reveals the disagreements while they are still cheap to resolve.
Prefer the smaller first version
A modest system in use within weeks teaches more than an ambitious specification debated for months. Phase one is deliberately narrow so that phase two is informed by evidence rather than assumption.
Design for the person who inherits it
Every piece of software eventually belongs to someone who was not there when it was built. Structure, naming and documentation are written with that person in mind.
Make the trade-offs visible
Every technical decision costs something. Faster now often means harder to change later. Those trade-offs are stated in plain language so the client is participating in the decision rather than receiving it.
Two activities, one company
Why development and consultancy sit together
Combining them creates an obvious tension. Naming that tension openly is more useful than pretending it does not exist.
The advantage
Advice given by someone who builds software is grounded in what building actually costs. Estimates come from delivery experience rather than from a spreadsheet. Recommendations account for maintenance, because maintenance is something that has to be lived with.
Equally, development informed by analysis starts from a clear requirement rather than a guess, which is the single largest factor in whether a project finishes near its estimate.
The tension, stated plainly
A company that both advises and builds has a commercial interest in recommending a build. Pretending otherwise would be dishonest.
Three things address it. Consultancy is priced and delivered as a complete engagement in its own right. Every comparison includes options that produce no development work. And the reasoning behind every recommendation is written down, so it can be challenged on its merits by anyone, including another supplier.
No obligation, in practice as well as in principle
Consultancy deliverables belong to the client and are written to be usable by any supplier. Several engagements exist specifically so that other companies can quote against a clear, consistent requirement. That is a legitimate and welcome outcome.
Working with DEVNOVA
Communication, maintainability and technology choices
Direct, and in plain English
One point of contact throughout. Explanations without unnecessary jargon, and no jargon used to obscure a difficulty. Questions get a straight answer, including "I do not know yet, and here is how I will find out".
Progress is reported in terms of completed outcomes rather than hours spent, so it can be judged from the outside.
Built to be changed
Software that cannot be modified is a liability regardless of how well it works today. Clear structure, consistent naming, documented decisions and no undocumented shortcuts are treated as part of the deliverable.
Handover documentation is written so that an internal team or another supplier could genuinely take over — which is the only real test of whether it is any good.
Responsible, not fashionable
Technology is chosen for the problem, the budget and the people who will maintain it. Established tools with good documentation and a wide developer pool usually protect a client better than something newer.
Where an organisation already has a standard, an internal team or a hosting arrangement, the project fits into it rather than working around it.
On accounts and ownership. Hosting and third-party accounts are held in the client's name wherever practical, and custom work transfers to the client under the terms of the written agreement once fees are paid. Control of a business system should not depend on a supplier relationship continuing.
Company details
Registered information
Everything below is a matter of public record. Nothing that has not been provided is stated here — including a registration date and any VAT registration, neither of which appears on this website.
- Registered name
- DEVNOVA SOLUTIONS LTD
- Company number
- 17360225
- Registered office
- 66 Paul Street
London
England
EC2A 4NA
United Kingdom - Country
- United Kingdom
- Registered activity
- 62012 — Business and domestic software development
- Registered activity
- 62020 — Information technology consultancy activities
- Telephone
- +44 7853 151 992
- support@devnovasolutions.tech
- Website
- devnovasolutions.tech
Working area. Work is carried out remotely for clients in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe. The registered office above is the company's only address; no other offices are claimed or operated.
Get in touch
The first conversation costs nothing
Send a description of the problem. You will receive a considered reply about whether it needs software, advice, or neither — and if it does, roughly what that would involve.
- Telephone
- +44 7853 151 992
- support@devnovasolutions.tech
- Company number
- 17360225