Chief builds custom software for companies in Houten. Our office is in Utrecht, we drive to Houten-Zuid, De Schaft or Het Rond via the A2 and the A27, and the train from Utrecht Centraal gets you there as well. If your stock, orders and planning sit in existing systems, we build software around those systems to get the data out, and where it is needed we build the hardware too.
Chief builds software for companies in Houten: an order portal for your customers, a planning board for your technicians, an app for people on site, or a dashboard showing how your deliveries are doing. We build in .NET with React or Angular, on Azure or AWS, and native iOS for mobile.
For companies that make, trade or deliver goods, a lot revolves around orders, planning and delivery times. The systems that record all that are usually built for administration, not for getting answers out quickly. We build around those systems.
We start with your process, not with a package. We talk to the people doing the work today before we draw any screens. Whatever already works, stays. That is what custom software development looks like with us: building in short steps, something you can use yourself after each one, and keeping the software running afterwards. See our cases for more examples.
Because orders, stock and planning sit in separate systems that do not talk to each other. That costs time and errors creep in. We build integrations that take over that work, between your ERP, your stock, your accounting and the other packages you use. Those systems carry on running as they are.
Underneath that we lay a shared data foundation, so everyone sees the same numbers. We don't do workplace management or IT support. We build software, and integrations are part of that.
Usually yes. We hear it often: the data already sits in the systems, but the report is put together by hand every month. We prepare that data in an environment with dashboards that update themselves, and we write down how every figure is calculated.
Once that is in place, AI implementation is the next step. We start with one process and build one finished application for it, with clear boundaries: what the AI may and may not do, and where a person approves.
Do you make something that measures, counts or moves? Then the electronics and the software do not have to sit with two suppliers. For Spotten, our own product, we built the sensor that goes into the road surface, the firmware and the platform behind it.
One team for device, firmware and portal saves you the conversation about who is responsible for which part.
Yes. If your software was built by someone who is no longer around, or it is so old that the original supplier can no longer maintain it properly, we take it over. We first work out how it is put together, make it maintainable again, and then keep building.
The code lives in a repository that your organisation owns. Who maintains it afterwards is agreed up front: us, your team, or both.
Yes, even when your team is in Houten and we are in Utrecht. Hiring senior developers from us works like this: a developer who joins your team still stays part of Chief, keeps taking part in our reviews, and can fall back on colleagues who do the Azure or firmware work.
You get a conversation with the person who will do the work, not a CV in your inbox. If you want someone to own the technical decisions, we take on technical leadership. What we learn about your system is written down for you, not kept in our own notes, so your team can keep going without us.
Houten lies just south-east of Utrecht, with business parks such as Rondeel, De Meerpaal and Doornkade. From our office in Utrecht it is a short drive.
We mostly work from our own office and come over to Houten when it helps: for an intake, a session with your management team, or a day working alongside your team. Would you rather come to us? You are welcome in Utrecht. Online works too. We are not in Houten every day, but you know who is working on your software and you speak to those people yourself.
We come over to Houten from Utrecht. Call us or book an introduction, and we will look at your question together.
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