Software that fits how your business runs. Designed, built and looked after for the long run.
Arete Platforms builds websites, web apps and automations for small businesses, then keeps them running.
Services
From a new website or booking platform to automating the paperwork and untangling the accounts nobody can log into anymore.
Websites
A fast, custom-designed site that looks like your business and can be changed the day you need it changed.
Designed for you, easy to find, and looked after once it is live.
Web apps and platforms
Software shaped around how you already work. Customers book and pay online, and your team runs everything from one admin screen.
Bookings, payments, sign-ups and customer accounts, all in one place.
Apps for customers and staff
Purpose-built apps your customers and staff open on their phones every day, each built around the one job they need it for.
One view for your team, another for your customers, and the history behind both.
Operations automation
The repetitive back-office work that eats your evenings, turned into something that happens on its own.
Paperwork that files itself, reports that build themselves, and the tools you already use working together.
Rescue and takeover
An app that half works, or a developer who stopped answering. We work out what you really have, then put it right in clear steps.
A straight answer on where things stand, and control back in your hands.
Accounts, domains and security
The unglamorous setup that decides who really owns your business online, done properly and written down.
Your domain, email and sign-ins set up properly, in your name.
After launch, we keep it running.
Everything we build can be covered by a monthly care plan, so the thing you paid for keeps working.
Monitoring
We keep watch, so problems get caught early.
Backups and updates
Data backed up, security patches applied.
Changes when you need them
Ask for a change and get a clear scope and timeline before any work starts.
A monthly report
One page on what was done and what’s next.
How working together goes
A short, written process, so you always know what you’re getting and what it costs.
Discovery call
Fifteen minutes on Google Meet. You describe what’s slowing the business down, and we tell you honestly whether we’re the right fit.
Written scope
A plain-English statement of work: what gets built, what doesn’t, the timeline and the price. Nothing starts until you’ve signed it.
Fixed or hourly
Well-defined work is priced in fixed phases. Open-ended work is hourly, with an estimate up front and a heads-up before it runs past it.
Regular updates
Short progress notes as the work moves and a working preview you can click through, well before launch.
You own it
Your domain, accounts and data stay in your business’s name, documented so you are never locked in.
Hi, I’m John.
I started Arete Platforms to give small businesses the kind of software and technical care that usually takes an IT department.
We work directly with owners and their teams. We design, build, host and maintain the software, and set up the accounts and security around it so nothing important lives in someone’s personal login. You get a single point of contact who knows your system end to end.
Client work stays confidential. We don’t publish who we work with unless they’ve said we can. Where a client has agreed, I’m glad to walk through past work on a call.
Tell us what’s slowing you down.
Book a free 15-minute call on Google Meet, or send a few lines about what you need.