Why Kendratek
Too complex for generic software.Too important to hand to just anyone.
Many growing businesses fall into a gap. Ready-made software doesn't fit, big systems are overkill, and hiring developers by the hour leaves you managing the project yourself. Kendratek exists for that gap: software that fits, sized for your business, built by people who take responsibility for whether it works.
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The gap
The usual options often let growing businesses down.
Each of these is the right choice for someone. The trouble is that a growing business with its own way of working is rarely who they were designed for.
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Ready-made online software
Designed for
Standard processes, a quick start and a predictable subscription.
Where growing businesses struggle
When the way you work is part of what makes you good, the software asks you to change it. The gaps get filled with spreadsheets, email and workarounds, alongside the monthly fee.
02
Big corporate systems
Designed for
Large companies with their own IT departments and budgets for long, expensive set-ups.
Where growing businesses struggle
For a growing business, the licence fees, consultants and months of setting up are out of all proportion to the problem. Most of the system goes unused, and the thing you actually needed still has to be custom-built.
03
Hire-by-the-hour developers
Designed for
Building exactly what's written in a clear, complete brief.
Where growing businesses struggle
Most growing businesses don't have one. When you're buying hours, nobody is responsible for understanding the problem, so you get what the brief said, not what the business needed.
The middle ground
Made to fit your business, and sized for it.
Kendratek sits between ready-made software, big corporate systems and developers hired by the hour. Here's how we see the difference.
Fits how your business works
- Ready-made online software
- Partly. You adjust to it
- Big corporate systems
- After months of setting up
- Hire-by-the-hour developers
- Only if your written brief is perfect
- Kendratek
- Designed around you
Right-sized for your business
- Ready-made online software
- Yes
- Big corporate systems
- Rarely
- Hire-by-the-hour developers
- Varies
- Kendratek
- Sized to fit, delivered in stages
Starts from the business problem
- Ready-made online software
- Not its job
- Big corporate systems
- Through outside consultants
- Hire-by-the-hour developers
- Usually starts from your brief
- Kendratek
- Always where we begin
Responsible for
- Ready-made online software
- Their product, not your process
- Big corporate systems
- Split between several firms
- Hire-by-the-hour developers
- Doing what the brief says
- Kendratek
- Software that works for your business
Works with older systems
- Ready-made online software
- Limited
- Big corporate systems
- With add-ons
- Hire-by-the-hour developers
- Depends on who you get
- Kendratek
- Very familiar to us
A broad comparison to explain where we fit, not a rating of any particular product or company.
What we bring
Three things that make the difference.
None of them is rare on its own. Together, they're what a growing business needs from a software partner, and rarely finds in one place.
01
Nearly 25 years of hands-on software experience
Hands-on means actually designing, writing and supporting software that businesses run on every day, through several generations of technology, from early web systems to today's.
What it means for you
- Estimates based on having built similar things before
- Older systems are familiar, not a reason to start over
- Technology chosen to last, not because it's new
- Problems spotted on paper, before they reach your staff
02
Your business first, technology second
Software is a tool, not the goal. Every project starts with how your business works and what's going wrong. The technology comes after. Sometimes the right answer is a ready-made product or a smaller change, and we'll say so.
What it means for you
- We talk about how you work before we talk about technology
- Work planned around what helps most, delivered in stages
- Honest advice when custom software isn't the answer
- Success means your people actually use it
03
We run our own product
Kendratek builds and runs its own software platform. That means living with every decision long after launch: making it easy for people who never get training, keeping every account secure, and supporting and improving it week after week.
What it means for you
- Client software built with the same long-term view
- Real attention to what happens after launch
- Designed for everyday users, not for sales demos
- Experience of the whole journey, not just the building
Evidence, not claims
We build and operate our own software.
Anyone can claim to build good software. ExporterProfile is something you can go and see.
ExporterProfile.com
Kendratek's own website platform for Indian exporters: a professional online profile, plus tools to handle what happens after a buyer gets in touch. We designed it, built it and run it.
What running a product teaches
Users arrive without training
So the screens have to be obvious on their own. We hold the software we build for clients to the same standard.
Every account's data stays separate
Each customer sees only their own information. That's planned in from the start, not added later.
Updates reach people who rely on it
Improvements have to arrive without disrupting anyone's day, and we update client software the same careful way.
Support shows where design falls short
Running a product keeps us close to how software is really used day to day, not just how it was planned.
In practice
What you can expect from working with us.
We'll tell you when custom isn't the answer
If a ready-made product or a smaller change will solve the problem, that's what we'll recommend.
A small first step before any big commitment
You see working software and a clear price before deciding on more.
Plain English, always
We explain every decision in everyday business terms, so you can make it with confidence.
Ownership agreed upfront
Who owns the software and its code is written clearly into the contract before work starts.
We own the result
We don't hire out developers by the hour. We take responsibility for software that actually solves the problem.
We stay with you
Support and improvements carry on as your business changes.
Start with the problem
Tell Us What You Need
You don't need to know anything about technology. Tell us what you're trying to get done, and we'll help you work out the right approach.
Write it in your own words. A real person reads every enquiry and replies honestly, even when custom software isn't the answer.