Spending over £100k a year on software that wasn't built for your business?
Engineering and manufacturing businesses run on complex, specific workflows. Off-the-shelf software was never designed for them - it was designed for the average company. Tribes builds AI-accelerated bespoke software that fits exactly how your operation works. You own it outright. The subscriptions stop.
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Not months to deliver
Owned and invested in by you
No more fees for license and extra users
Most engineering software forces
your operation to fit the tool. Ours fits you.
Seat limits. Field limits. Feature tiers. The moment your business grows, the bill grows with it. You end up paying more for the same product - and still working around the same limitations.
Job management here. Stock control there. Invoicing somewhere else. Your team bridges the gaps manually every day. That's not a workflow - that's three systems pretending to be one.
Subscriptions are a cost, not an investment. You own nothing. When you cancel, you lose everything. When the vendor raises prices - and they always do - you have no leverage. That money is gone.
AI has changed the economics.
Bespoke is no longer a luxury.
For years, building bespoke software meant enterprise budgets and 12-month timelines. That's no longer the reality. AI-accelerated engineering means Tribes can design, build, and deliver production-grade software in weeks - managed by senior engineers, certified to ISO27001, owned by you outright from day one. The maths of owning your software rather than renting someone else's has shifted permanently in your favour.
Free stack assessment
We map every subscription - what it costs, what you actually use it for, and whether a bespoke replacement makes financial sense. We model your 3 and 5-year cost of continuing versus building. Most clients find the numbers surprising. This costs you nothing.
Scoped, fixed-price proposal
We map every subscription - what it costs, what you actually use it for, and whether a bespoke replacement makes financial sense. We model your 3 and 5-year cost of continuing versus building. Most clients find the numbers surprising. This costs you nothing.
AI-accelerated build by senior engineers
DevCheck® vetted engineers. AI tooling at every layer - architecture, code, testing, quality. ISO27001 certified. Faster than traditional development without cutting corners on security or governance.
You own it. Forever.
The code, the data, the IP - all yours. Hosted where you choose. No ongoing licence fee. No vendor lock-in. No annual renewal letter with a 20% uplift and 30 days' notice.
What we typically replace for engineering businesses
Epicor, Infor, SAP Business One
Tableau, Power BI, manual spreadsheets
Bespoke replacements for Salesforce portals, ServiceMax
Xero, Sage, QuickBooks
SimPRO, Joblogic, BigChange
Deputy, Templa, Planday
We replace the parts of your stack that don't fit. And build something better in their place.
Not everything. We audit your subscriptions, identify where bespoke creates the most value, and build it - fast, clean, and owned by you. We'll tell you honestly which tools to replace and which to keep.
Find out what your software
stack is really costing you.
We offer a free, no-obligation stack assessment for engineering and manufacturing businesses. In one conversation we map your subscriptions, identify what's replaceable, and give you the 5-year numbers - continuing versus building. No hard sell. Just an honest look at whether it makes sense.
From our clients...
We’ve helped startups, enterprises, and agencies bring big ideas to life.
“Tribes are true thought leaders and global professionals in development and creative engineering.”
“Tribes is truly a world-class design and development company. We came to them with the impossible and they were able to deliver on time, on budget a site that wows and is the cornerstone of our offering. We couldn’t be more happy with the results and execution.”
“Tribes have been instrumental in helping resource our development team. The candidates they have sourced have been ideal for what we require and the flexibility they provide has allowed us scale up and down to suit our changing product needs.”
“The calibre of developers Tribes have, coupled with the wealth of experience in their management team, gave us peace of mind that we would get the best possible product to take to our users, and they delivered. We couldn't be happier with the final product, and our users love it!”
“The team at Tribes are proving to be a fantastic technology partner. Helping us conceive of, design and build proofs of concept at speed, supporting us with superior talent, both in terms of thought leadership and delivery”