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Enterprise Web Applications

We build enterprise-grade web applications that combine exceptional performance with conversion-focused design. From corporate platforms and e-commerce systems to content-driven sites: every project is engineered for speed, SEO, and long-term maintainability.

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  • Corporate Platforms
  • E-Commerce
  • CMS & Blog Systems
  • Performance & SEO
  • Landing Pages
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TTFB 112ms
LCP0.8s
CLS0.01
INP42ms
LIGHTHOUSE98
  • RenderingServer
  • DeliveryEdge
  • BudgetEnforced
  • VitalsPassing
What We Deliver

What you get, concretely

6 systems, not brochure bullets. Pick one to see exactly what is inside.

Corporate Platforms & Portals

Enterprise websites are not marketing sites with more pages. They are platforms that serve multiple audiences with different needs. We build corporate web applications that handle investor relations, career portals, partner dashboards, and customer-facing content from a single unified architecture. Navigation is structured for both users and search engines, with breadcrumbs, sitemaps, and internal linking that improve discoverability. Multi-language support is built at the routing level, not bolted on with translation plugins. Content governance workflows let different teams manage their sections independently while maintaining brand consistency. Every page is server-rendered for instant load times and full search engine indexability.

Deliverables

What's Included

Every engagement ships as a complete, documented system that you fully own; nothing is held back as an upsell after launch.

Product

What ships to your users

  • Sitemap, wireframes & full visual design
  • Documentation & content-team training

Engineering

The system itself

  • Server-rendered web application (Astro or Next.js)
  • Analytics, error monitoring & automated deployment pipeline
  • Full source code & IP ownership

Operations

Running it after launch

  • SEO engineering: structured data & 95+ Core Web Vitals
  • WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility implementation

Ownership

Yours outright, with no strings

  • Headless CMS configured to your editorial workflow
Why It Works

Why it works: the problem and our answer

The problem

Your website is not a brochure. It is the most expensive sales asset you own, and most of them are engineered to lose.

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Your website is not a brochure. It is the most important sales asset your company owns. And yet most enterprise web projects end up as bloated, slow-loading liabilities that actively repel the customers they were supposed to attract.

The pattern is painfully common. You hire a team that builds on a heavyweight CMS or a trendy JavaScript framework without considering the consequences. The homepage takes four seconds to load on mobile. Google cannot index half your pages because they rely on client-side rendering. Your content team needs a developer for every copy change because the CMS was an afterthought. And your Core Web Vitals scores are so poor that you are literally paying more per click in ad spend because Google penalizes slow sites.

E-commerce compounds these problems. Product catalogs need structured data for search engines, dynamic filtering that does not destroy performance, inventory syncing that actually works, and checkout flows that do not leak conversions at every step. Most agencies treat these as plugin problems. They are architecture problems.

The deeper issue is that most web development teams optimize for shipping fast rather than performing fast. They choose tools that make development convenient at the expense of user experience. The result is a site that looks good in a demo but fails in production: slow on real networks, invisible to search engines, and impossible for your team to maintain without calling the agency back every month.

Accessibility is another dimension that most agencies ignore until a legal letter arrives. WCAG compliance is not just a checkbox. It is a requirement for government contracts, enterprise clients, and an increasing number of industries. Screen readers cannot parse decorative divs, keyboard navigation breaks on custom components, and color contrast failures make your site unusable for millions of potential customers. Retrofitting accessibility into a finished site costs three to five times more than building it in from the start.

You deserve a web presence that works as hard as you do, and that means treating web performance, SEO, and accessibility as foundational requirements, not final-sprint optimizations.

Our answer

We treat load time as a feature with an owner and a budget, not as something to measure once the build is already too heavy to fix.

How that works in practice

We build web applications on Astro and Next.js because these frameworks let us deliver the performance that search engines and users demand without sacrificing developer experience or content flexibility. Every page ships with minimal JavaScript by default, hydrating interactive components only where they are needed.

Our SEO engineering goes far beyond meta tags. We implement structured data schemas, optimize crawl efficiency with proper internal linking, configure server-side rendering for dynamic content, and ensure every page passes Core Web Vitals thresholds. Your content team gets a headless CMS that lets them publish and edit without developer involvement.

For e-commerce, we build on top of proven commerce APIs (Shopify Storefront, Medusa, or custom backends) with custom frontends that load fast and convert. Product pages render server-side with structured data, filtering happens without full page reloads, and checkout is optimized for completion.

Accessibility is engineered into every component from the start. Semantic HTML, ARIA attributes, keyboard navigation, focus management, and screen reader testing are part of our development process, not a post-launch audit. We test with VoiceOver, NVDA, and axe-core in CI so accessibility regressions are caught before they ship.

Every site we deliver scores 95+ on Lighthouse, loads in under one second on 4G connections, and ships with analytics, error monitoring, and automated deployment pipelines.

  • 01

    Brief: goals, audience, content needs, and technical requirements

  • 02

    Sitemap, wireframes, then visual design, with copy and structure aligned early

  • 03

    Build with Astro or Next.js for speed and SEO; CMS integration for content management

  • 04

    Performance tuning, analytics, security hardening, and launch with ongoing support

The Waterfall

Where the seconds actually go

The same page, built two ways. One ships a framework and renders in the browser; the other ships HTML from the edge. Watch the request waterfall collapse.

  • HTML document420ms
  • framework bundle1350ms
  • vendor chunk1180ms
  • render blocking CSS620ms
  • client data fetch940ms
  • hero image1050ms
  • third party tags1400ms
Largest Contentful Paint3.2s
JavaScript shipped612 KB
Timeline

How Long It Takes

A corporate platform typically takes 8–12 weeks. E-commerce builds with custom product experiences run 12–16 weeks.

  1. Phase 011–2 weeks

    Brief & Discovery

    Goals, audience, content needs, user flows, and technical requirements.

  2. Phase 022–3 weeks

    Structure & Design

    Sitemap, wireframes, then visual design, with copy and structure aligned early.

  3. Phase 034–6 weeks

    Build & Integration

    Astro/Next.js build, CMS integration, SEO engineering, and accessibility.

  4. Phase 041 week

    Performance & Launch

    Performance tuning, analytics, security hardening, and launch with handover.

Typical end to end12 weeks

Proof

Projects We've Delivered

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Investment

How Much Does Enterprise Web Applications Cost?

Web application scope varies more than any other category: a marketing site and a customer portal are both web applications. Discovery is essential. We do not estimate before understanding your user flows.

  • Starter€15,000 – €35,000

    Marketing and service site with lead generation, CMS integration, and analytics.

    TypicallyIdeal for established businesses replacing an outdated digital presence.

  • Growth€35,000 – €80,000

    Web application with user accounts, dashboards, role-based access, and integrations.

    TypicallyCustomer portals, internal tools, and partner-facing platforms.

  • Enterprise€80,000+

    Complex portals, high-availability production systems, and compliance-grade infrastructure.

    TypicallyFinancial services, healthcare, and regulated industry applications.

Technology
  1. ExperienceWhat the user touches
    • Astro
    • Next.js
    • React
    • Tailwind CSS
  2. ApplicationBusiness logic and services
    • Node.js
  3. InfrastructureWhere it runs and how it ships
    • Vercel
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Why Astro or Next.js over WordPress or Webflow?

WordPress and Webflow are excellent for simple sites, but they impose performance and architectural ceilings that enterprise projects inevitably hit. Astro and Next.js give us full control over rendering strategy, caching, and JavaScript delivery, which translates directly to faster load times, better SEO, and lower hosting costs at scale.

Can our marketing team update content without developers?

Absolutely. Every project includes a headless CMS configured for your editorial workflow. Your team can create pages, update copy, upload images, and preview changes in real time. We design the content model during the architecture phase so it maps to how your team actually works.

How do you handle SEO for single-page applications?

We avoid traditional single-page application architectures for SEO-critical projects. Instead, we use server-side rendering or static generation so every page is fully indexable without relying on JavaScript execution. For interactive sections within pages, we hydrate components selectively so search engines always see complete content.

What does your e-commerce architecture look like?

We build headless commerce frontends connected to Shopify Storefront API, Medusa, or custom backends via REST and GraphQL. The frontend is server-rendered for SEO, with client-side interactivity for cart management and filtering. This decoupled approach gives you complete design freedom while leveraging battle-tested commerce infrastructure for payments, inventory, and fulfillment.

How long does a typical enterprise web application take to build?

A corporate platform with CMS integration typically takes 8-12 weeks. E-commerce projects with custom product experiences run 12-16 weeks. These timelines include design, development, content migration, SEO configuration, and performance optimization. We scope precisely during the architecture phase so there are no surprises.

How do you handle accessibility and WCAG compliance?

Accessibility is built into our development process from day one, not audited after launch. We follow WCAG 2.2 AA standards with semantic HTML, ARIA attributes, keyboard navigation, focus management, and screen reader testing. Automated accessibility checks run in our CI pipeline, and we conduct manual testing with assistive technologies like VoiceOver and NVDA. This approach costs a fraction of retrofitting accessibility into a finished site.

How much does enterprise web application development cost?

A corporate platform with CMS, multi-language support, and analytics typically runs €80,000–€180,000. E-commerce projects with custom product experiences and ERP integrations range €150,000–€350,000. Internal platforms with complex workflows, role-based access control, and external integrations start at €200,000 and scale with the integration surface. We scope each engagement against your specific compliance, integration, and scale requirements during a paid architecture sprint before issuing a fixed quote.

What is an enterprise web application, and how is it different from a regular website?

A regular website presents information. An enterprise web application is a system: it authenticates users, processes transactions, integrates with internal infrastructure, enforces business rules, and ships behavior that directly affects revenue or operations. Enterprise web also operates under stricter constraints: compliance audits, single sign-on, accessibility legal requirements, multi-region performance, and uptime SLAs. The architecture, testing, and delivery process look closer to a SaaS product than to a marketing site.

How do you handle security and compliance (SOC 2, GDPR, ISO 27001)?

Security is built into the architecture from day one, not retrofitted before an audit. We implement encrypted storage, role-based access control, comprehensive audit logging, automated data export and deletion workflows, and consent management. For SOC 2 specifically, we set up the technical controls auditors examine and document them in a format your compliance team can submit directly. We have shipped systems that passed Fortune 500 security reviews on the first pass.

Can you integrate with our existing SAP, Salesforce, or internal systems?

Yes. Most enterprise engagements require integration with at least three existing systems: typically CRM, ERP, identity provider, and data warehouse. We work through standard REST and GraphQL APIs, SOAP where required for legacy systems, and direct database synchronization or event streams for high-volume integrations. We have integrated with Salesforce, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, Oracle, and Workday, plus dozens of internal systems. Where APIs do not exist, we build them.

Monolith or microservices: which architecture do you recommend?

For most enterprise projects, a well-structured modular monolith is the right starting point. It ships faster, is simpler to operate, and scales further than people expect. Microservices make sense when you have multiple teams that need independent deployment cadence, when specific subsystems have radically different scaling profiles, or when compliance requires hard isolation between domains. We make this call during architecture, not based on trends, but on your team size, deployment requirements, and operational maturity.

Should enterprises hire a boutique studio or a Big 4 consultancy?

Big 4 firms excel at organizational change management, multi-year transformation programs, and projects where the deliverable is process as much as software. Boutique studios excel when you need senior engineers actually writing the code, faster decision cycles, fixed-team continuity, and a product mindset over a billable-hours mindset. We typically replace or sit alongside Big 4 engagements when the bottleneck is engineering velocity, not strategy.

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