Platform Development
Data, CRM and project systems behind the front end.
Some projects need more than a site — they need the structured data, CRM-style tooling or project systems running behind it. That spans custom builds like Renewables Connect, covered in detail on learning platforms — real content architecture and a data model built to scale to thousands of learners. Getting the most out of Microsoft 365 and SharePoint you already run is covered separately.
What it covers
Broadly, what a platform project involves.
Process
How a platform project runs, start to finish.
In practice
Two different platforms, built the same way.
A four-app learning platform — learner, institution, employer and admin — sharing one typed data model over a dedicated Fastify + Prisma API, built to scale to thousands of learners. Full breakdown on learning platforms.
A single-app platform on Supabase/Postgres behind a garage's marketing site — customers, vehicles and enquiries as structured tables, with a stocklist that manages itself instead of a page that goes stale the moment a car sells.
Got data, records or a workflow that's outgrown spreadsheets?
Whether that's a CRM behind a website, an internal dashboard, or a full learning platform, it starts the same way — mapping how the business actually works before any schema gets written. If the platform needs Claude built in too — connectors, automation, dashboards that summarise themselves — that's covered on AI integration.
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