Custom Software Development for Startups and Emerging Businesses

We Are a Startup Focused Development Company That Helps You Grow

Scaling a growing business or startup is challenging. You juggle your focus between managing your one-off contractors and your solution’s features and functionality. Your main focus should be your business growth and capability, while overseeing ad-hoc contractors distracts you from your mission, putting your product and business at risk.

The Sphere team is ready to provide expert software development expertise with a highly efficient scaling team for small businesses seeking small-scope delivery of new features, seamless product architecture support, and additional resources for growth.

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Your Advantage With Custom Software

Develop Competitive Features
Develop Competitive Features

While you prioritize customer experience, our team focuses on driving your innovation by delivering competitive features tailored to your business. We select the most suitable technologies, architecture patterns, and align your solution with your business’s growing needs, ensuring your continued success on the market.

Adapt to Customer and Market Conditions
Adapt to Customer and Market Conditions

Stay ahead in today’s dynamic market landscape with our agile approach, seamlessly adapting to customer needs and market trends. Our scalability ensures your business can swiftly respond to shifting conditions, scaling up or down with ease, empowering you to thrive in any environment.

Expert UI/UX Design
Expert UI/UX Design

We design a cutting-edge UI/UX experience, crafting your solution’s look and feel to embody the latest industry patterns and usability standards, ensuring unparalleled user engagement, satisfaction, and seamless experience on all devices.

Full Scope Software Development
Full Scope Software Development

Elevate your product with our software engineering expertise spanning full-stack, mobile, data solutions, and the cutting-edge realm of Generative AI. From concept to execution, we deliver high-end products, ensuring your project is primed for success in today’s ever-evolving digital landscape.

Application Development for All Types of Growing Businesses and Startups

With an expertise of over 19 years in startup and SMB software development, our team has supported all major steps companies, many of which have gone up to IPO and become industry leaders with a competitive advantages they were not able to get from independent developers and small mom-and-pop technology firms.

Our Core Expertise

As your small business scales, optimizing operations and augmenting your development team become essential. Our dedicated team specializes in engineering tailored software solutions designed for small businesses and startups, empowering your growth with automated tools, AI,  streamlined project management, rapid talent acquisition, and system consolidation.

Growth
Engineering

Collaborate closely with our team as we prioritize developing new features and seamlessly integrating them into your existing architecture. This allows your team to concentrate on maintaining product stability and enhancing user satisfaction, while we drive innovation and growth.

Maintenance and Support

Our framework guarantees consistent performance and optimization of your existing products. From automation to resolving critical issues and adapting infrastructure for future updates, we handle it all, allowing you to focus on scaling your business.

Integrations

Our skilled engineers excel in connecting current systems and eliminating makeshift solutions. Seamlessly integrating Third-Party Apps, Legacy Systems, ERPs, Single-Sign-On capabilities, and beyond is our specialty, ensuring smooth operations and enhanced functionality for your business.

Security and Compliance

We safeguard users’ Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and help your software meet global standards like HIPAA, FDA, PCI DSS, SOX, CCPA, and GDPR. With our robust measures in place, you can rest assured that your software meets the highest security and compliance requirements.

MVP
Development

Our Small Business-focused MVP Software Development approach offers a lean strategy, swiftly transforming your concepts into features within weeks. This enables rapid incorporation of user feedback, acquisition of initial market data, and validation of new ideas, expediting your path to success.

Performance Optimization

As your product gains traction, every second and every user matters. We fine-tune your software architecture for speed, reliability, and scalability – optimizing databases, improving load balancing, and modernizing infrastructure to handle growing traffic effortlessly.

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How Does Our Software
Development For Startups
Service Work?

We understand the frequently sensitive nature of maintaining the success of a new product with a small team. Our team operates with high volume of talents and capabilities which allow us to start a scope-based delivery within 2 weeks or less.

1. Strategy, Consulting, and Planning

We develop a project development roadmap, strategic goals, and allocate resources according to our plan.

2. Onboarding, Assessment, and Delivery

We analyze the processes inside your team, define the scope, assess the software, and start delivery according to our scope.

3. Testing and Optimization

We reveal all the bottlenecks and potential blockers for scale by using our QA services. After the testing our team will optimize the product to make it meet industry’s best practices.

4. Support and Scale

We will help you with product’s support as well as will be ready to easily increase the team’s capacity that will meet your demands for sustainable growth.

Customer Stories

Cloud Native Development Data Engineering
Optimizing AWS Cloud Infrastructure for Financial Company
Optimizing AWS Cloud Infrastructure for Financial Company

Sphere partnered with a global leader in commercial finance to optimize its AWS cloud infrastructure, improve data retrieval efficiency, and standardize financial data across third-party sources. Through database enhancements, cloud optimization, and streamlined data aggregation, the client achieved faster decision-making, improved risk assessments, and significant cost savings.

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Cloud Native Development Custom Software Development
How we helped increase average transaction value for Tommy Car Wash through NetSuite SuiteScript
How we helped increase average transaction value for Tommy Car Wash through NetSuite SuiteScript

Our client, Tommy Car Wash, a US-based car wash manufacturing company, sought to develop a custom feature on NetSuite to offer discounts to their customers. They were already using NetSuite but needed additional development assistance to implement this feature through NetSuite SuiteScript, so they reached out to us.

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Cloud Native Development Legacy Modernization
Retail electricity supplier increased deals closed won by 70% after upgrading to Salesforce CRM
Retail electricity supplier increased deals closed won by 70% after upgrading to Salesforce CRM

Our client, a leading retail electricity supplier, used a dated CRM (customer relationship management) tool for years. They came to a point where they recognized they should improve their internal sales processes which were managed in this CRM system. They did also recognise though, that to migrate to a new, more robust CRM system, it would require a skilled team, and they didn’t have the resources to do this in-house. So they reached out to us.

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Hear from Our Clients

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Selah Ben-Haim VP of Engineering at Prominence Advisors

Our experience with Sphere and their team has been and continues to be fantastic. We keep throwing new projects at them, and they keep knocking them out of the park (including the rescue of a project that was previously bungled by another vendor).

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Ben Crawford Senior Product Manager at Enova Financial

I would expect to be delighted. It’s been a really positive experience, working with Sphere, and I would expect you to have the same.

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Mark Friedgan CEO at CreditNinja

Sphere consistently prioritizes the needs of their clients, demonstrating both agility and teamwork. They bring innovative and well-considered solutions, consistently surpassing my expectations.

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René Pfitzner Co-Founder at Experify

Sphere provided excellent full-stack development manpower to augment our team and work with us.

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Bruce Burdick Chief Information Officer at Integra Credit

We've been working with Sphere and its excellent consultants since our founding. Their combination of offshore talent, pricing, and shift offsetting is hard to beat. They provide crucial augmentation to our in-house team. We simply couldn't achieve our production ambitions without their service.

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Jemal Swoboda CEO at Dabble

The resources and developers that Sphere Software provides are skilled and have the required technical expertise to complete their tasks successfully, with the team easily scaled in either direction. The deliverables are always high-quality.

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Arthur Tretyak Founder and CEO at IntegraCredit

With Sphere, we were able to migrate in half the time it would take to train an additional FTE…

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Lee Ebreo VP of Engineering at Credit Ninja

These things would not have been achievable if we did not build our own in-house system. We augmented our development team capabilities using Sphere’s developer, who works very well with our Dev Lead in Chicago. Sphere’s developer was an expert in the new system, and continues to be an expert as we evolve it.

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Frequently asked question

It is the process of designing, building, and scaling software tailored to a startup’s unique product vision, business model, and growth stage. Instead of generic templates, startups receive architecture, features, and integrations built specifically to support traction, scalability, and market fit.

Startups choose external engineering teams to accelerate delivery, reduce hiring overhead, access senior talent instantly, and strengthen technical decisions without distracting founders from product and growth. Outsourced teams also offer predictable costs and flexible scaling as priorities change.

Most startup-focused engineering teams begin within 1–2 weeks. This includes onboarding, codebase assessment, environment setup, initial sprint planning, and defining the first delivery scope.

Startups commonly request:

  • Mobile apps
  • Web applications
  • Cloud-native platforms
  • Auto-scalable architectures
  • SaaS products
  • Data-driven tools and internal dashboards
  • AI-enhanced features
  • Integration-heavy systems

Sphere supports both early-stage MVPs and post-funding scale-ups.

Yes. The team routinely performs code audits, architecture reviews, refactoring, and gradual replacement of unstable contractor-built systems. The goal is stability, reliability, and predictable delivery as the business grows.

Startups often rely on fractional CTO services, architecture consulting, roadmap creation, and technical decision support. This ensures correct technology choices, scalable architecture, secure data handling, and long-term maintainability.

Sphere works with startups and SMBs across fintech, healthcare, real estate, logistics, retail, legal tech, marketplaces, manufacturing, e-commerce, and AI-driven products. Custom solutions are mapped to each industry’s regulatory and technical requirements.

Security is built into the entire engineering lifecycle. The team implements access controls, encryption, secure infrastructure, and compliance frameworks such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, CCPA, GDPR, FDA, and more. This protects sensitive data and supports scale.

Yes. Integrations include ERPs, CRMs, payment providers, analytics tools, SSO, cloud infrastructure, marketing platforms, and legacy systems. The goal is to remove manual work and unify data flow across the business.

Yes. Performance optimization focuses on speed, stability, and scalability — including database tuning, caching strategies, load balancing, cloud cost optimization, and refactoring outdated architecture. This helps products handle traffic surges and rapid user growth.

Budgets vary depending on product complexity, seniority of the team, required integrations, compliance needs, and long-term roadmap. Most startups begin with a discovery or architectural assessment to determine scope, cost range, and delivery strategy.

Teams use agile delivery cycles with weekly demos, transparent progress tracking, and shared tools for updates. This ensures founders always know what is in development, what’s next, and how the roadmap evolves.

Yes. Maintenance includes monitoring, issue resolution, feature support, infrastructure upgrades, security patches, and ongoing optimization. The team scales up or down depending on the product’s evolution.

Start with a consultation. The team reviews your goals, product vision, tech stack, timelines, and challenges — then proposes a clear path to delivery, from MVP to full-scale platform development.

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