Software development consulting services in the UK
Off-the-shelf software rarely ticks all the boxes. Vention’s software development consulting ensures your tech works for you.
With 20+ years of experience and a trusted presence in the UK, we go beyond advice — we deliver engineering peace of mind and drive real results.
Trusted by Britain’s best in business
Software development consulting tailored to your business
Startups
Launching or evolving a software product is a challenging journey — but we know what it takes to disrupt the market. We’ve already helped Curve, Healthera, Memrise, Upvest, and their peers achieve success.
- With over 20 years of hands-on experience, we’re ready to streamline the process for you:
- Conduct market research and competitive analysis to help you better understand your niche and opportunities.
- Recommend software architecture options and a technology stack to meet your scalability and performance needs, keeping cost efficiency and cost optimisation in mind.
- Deliver user journey maps and wireframes or prototypes to capture user and investor interest.
- Create a detailed project roadmap with clear milestones, timelines, and resource allocation.
- Elicit and prioritise product features to ensure a fast MVP (minimum viable product) launch, followed by gradual feature delivery and cost distribution. · Integrate innovative technologies like AI or big data into existing products to maximise their value for users and your ROI.
Small and midsized businesses (SMBs)
Looking to modernise, automate, and grow? We’ve delivered hundreds of projects across 30+ industries, helping businesses unlock their full potential with technology.
Here’s how we make a difference:
- Analyse your existing setup and environment to spot inefficiencies and optimisation opportunities through software.
- Align technology strategy with your business goals, such as growth plans, customer acquisition and retention, and cost optimisation.
- Select the right technology (including cutting-edge techs) and architecture design options to fit your budget without sacrificing quality.
- Help make build-or-buy decisions for software products.
- Prepare a solid ground for cloud adoption: choose a cloud service provider, cloud services that enhance development and innovation, and a fitting cloud plan to minimise upfront investments that don’t come at the expense of performance.
- Plan cloud migration processes to cause no to minimum disruption to your regular business operations.
- Plan smooth integrations with existing software.
- Train your internal teams and users to maximise software’s efficient use.
Enterprises
Our consultants understand what global industry leaders seek: digital transformation, automation, and scalability.
We help design and build robust solutions that align with these goals. What do Costa Coffee, Sperry Rail, and Juice Plus+ have in common? We’ve contributed to their technological excellence.
- Our experts will assess your infrastructure and codebase and recommend the most effective modernisation strategy.
- Analyse potential improvements that technology can bring and suggest applicable use cases.
- Devise a business process automation strategy that addresses technology aspects, cost optimization, and risk factors.
- Prioritise software development projects within a digital transformation strategy based on impact and ROI.
- Recommend technology stack (including innovative techs), architecture options, and integration scenarios.
- Establish a DevOps approach for faster and higher-quality software releases.
- Plan cloud adoption and related data migration.
Our software development consulting services
Planning a new software build or upgrading existing systems? Worried about missing key requirements or making the wrong strategic calls on tech decisions?
Our consultants help you map out a seamless development process that aligns with your business goals — no guesswork, no roadblocks.
Choose any or all service components that you require to power your success.
Needs assessment and opportunity mapping
Developing a product? We’ll help you understand your market, assess competitors, and shape a monetisation strategy that works. Building internal software? We’ll pinpoint bottlenecks, assess risks, and uncover cost-optimisation opportunities.
Technology consulting
If you need an expert second opinion, our team provides unbiased assessments of architecture design, data storage solutions, technology options, and third-party integrations, ensuring every choice supports your long-term vision. We can also help you harness cutting-edge technologies and ensure AI, big data, VR/AR, and blockchain are ROI drivers rather than just buzzwords.
Software UI/UX design consulting
A great product isn’t just about functionality; it’s also about experience. Whether for external users or in-house teams, intuitive and engaging interfaces make all the difference.
From wireframes with basic layouts to interactive prototypes, we design interfaces that prioritise user convenience while staying true to your brand identity.
Security consulting
Our experts create a tailored plan to integrate security into each stage of the software development lifecycle. You won’t get theoretical and abstract recommendations — just actionable strategies that help you secure your data and ecosystem from existing cyber threats.
The best part? These strategies are scalable and adaptable to strengthen your security in the long run.
Software quality assurance consulting
Our QA consultants build tailored strategies to embed testing into your workflow, from best practices to full-scale QA plans with roadmaps, timelines, and resource allocation.
Need hands-on support? We can provide test plans, define objectives, and develop automation scripts to streamline validation so you can ensure quality with minimal manual effort.
CTO as a service
Need strategic tech leadership without the six-month wait to hire a full-time CTO? Our CTO as a Service model provides high-level consulting with a hands-on approach so you don’t lose momentum.
Our external CTO services can be tailored to support businesses of different types and maturity.
The transformative impact, as told by our clients
We go beyond consulting — we challenge ideas, refine strategies, and build solutions that last.
Because true impact isn’t just about code, it’s about a partnership that keeps evolving. When our clients grow, adapt, and thrive, it’s a testament to what innovation and collaboration can achieve.
My past experience was that third parties just don't 'get it. But Vention truly challenged our thinking: This PDW [project discovery workshop] was the first time I've seen a complex software project finish under budget and ahead of schedule.”
Bobby Gilbert
Senior Director of Digital Transformation at Sperry Rail
I am delighted to share my glowing review of the consulting company we have had the pleasure of working with. From the very beginning, our experience with them has been nothing short of exceptional.
The impact they had on our deliverables cannot be overstated. The contractors provided invaluable support, going above and beyond to ensure the successful completion of our projects. Their expertise and dedication were instrumental in achieving remarkable results.”
Jeff Shek
VP of Engineering, HistoWiz
We hired Vention to provide us with engineering and consulting services. Vention has saved us time and money. The quality of their work has been fantastic, and they work together as a great team. Their organization is far better than the other organizations I’ve worked with before.”
Max P.
Founder, Experience Management Company
The Vention team has been a truly supportive and professional partner throughout our project.
They’ve shown a remarkable level of personal engagement with our goals, demonstrating a genuine commitment to our success as a startup. Communication was always clear, and they kept us fully informed at every step, ensuring we were aligned throughout the process. The management team, in particular, understood the unique challenges we face as a startup, offering innovative solutions while being mindful of our limitations. Their flexibility, collaboration, and proactive approach have played a key role in the smooth progress of the project, making them an invaluable asset to our team.”
Elena Minich
Head of Content, Export Hunter UAB
The advisory team Vention put together was top-notch. The swiftness they completed complicated topics, their receptiveness to changes; and the professionalism and attention to detail they all brought to the project [were most impressive].”
Michael Narlock
Head of Astronomy/Exhibits, Cranbrook Institute of Science
What makes this company unique is the people. Every person we have interacted with from Vention from intake to the lowest-level worker, is all-in on our success. You hear it and feel it in their actions. This is not a job to them. They are committed partners and we wouldn't be where we are today without them.”
Ken Apple
VP Product Engineering, Gulf Relay
Your challenges, our solutions
Every business faces unique hurdles — we’ve worked with hundreds and seen them all. More importantly, we know how to overcome them.
And when we say we speak your language, we mean business — not just tech jargon.
Strategic challenges
Is our idea valid and feasible?
We assess feasibility from all angles: technical execution, ROI potential, and alignment with your operations so you can move forward with confidence.
Are we moving in the right direction?
Our involvement can begin at any project stage, whether you’re planning new software or optimising an existing one. The point at which we step in will shape the approach we take to ensure you move forward with confidence. However, our stats show that businesses could have saved an average of £480,000 per year had they entrusted the project to us from the start.
Modernisation challenges
What should we do to bolster operational efficiency
From sharing industry best practices gained over 20 years to identifying emerging trends, our software development consultants provide valuable insights and actionable recommendations to help you optimise and automate your processes.
What if my software is 20 years old or so?
Our approach will remain consistent: analyse your software’s current state and share strategies to refine it, such as refactoring or re-architecting.
Advanced technology implementation challenges
How can we be sure that the technology (AI, big data, blockchain, or any other cutting-edge tech) will bring real value?
Our consultants compare your case against industry benchmarks, validate business fit, prove feasibility, assess and manage risks, and help you adopt the technology in a controlled manner.
What if we'd like to implement advanced techs, but some of our existing software is outdated?
In most cases, modernising legacy software will be necessary. However, we only make recommendations after a thorough analysis of your existing ecosystem.
Additionally, we help plan an integration strategy to ensure smooth data flow between your systems, enabling seamless interoperability between old and new technologies.
Software engineering consulting for your industry
With hands-on experience across 30+ industries, we bring deep expertise to every domain we touch, including:
Proptech
Martech and adtech
Edtech
Ecommerce
Gaming
Greentech
Automotive
Food and drink
Transport and logistics
Wellness
Retail and consumer goods
Govtech
Interested in exploring opportunities for your industry?
Let’s talk!
Meet us at our London office or hop on a call — we’re ready when you are.
30 Churchill Place, E14 5RE
Phone: +442071172842
Why entrust software development consulting to Vention?
20+ years of experience in bespoke software development
Our deep expertise in bespoke software development allows us to provide confident, well-grounded recommendations during the consulting phase.
3,000+ experts on board
We don’t stop at consulting — upon your request, we can turn our strategic insights into reality, implementing the solutions we’ve mapped out.
ISO 27001-certified security management
This certification reflects our unwavering commitment to ensure data security, confidentiality, and integrity.
Award-winning partner
In 2024, Vention has been named Outstanding Business by the Global Business Excellence Awards and the Best Tech Place to Work by the National Technology Award. We’ve also been finalists in the Vendor of the Year category by UK IT Industry Awards and Tech Company of the Year by UK Business Tech Awards.
Ongoing upskilling
Committed to continuous learning, our experts stay ahead of the latest trends, ensuring you gain a first-mover advantage and lead innovation in your industry.
Transparent communication
We don’t shy away from risks or roadblocks. Our experts provide realistic estimates and clear roadmaps. We also foster open discussions to align our strategic advice with your business goals.
We’ve partnered with tech’s most influential players to fuel your growth
Innovation moves fast — and we make sure you stay ahead.
With industry leaders like Microsoft, AWS, Google, Salesforce, Payload, and CTO Craft in our corner, we bring the tech and expertise to help you thrive in an ever-evolving world.
Our work
Our technology stack
At Vention, we combine proven technologies with the latest breakthroughs to create a powerful, future-ready foundation for every solution.
Frontend development
React
Angular
Vue
Ember
jQuery
Next
Rx
Socket.IO
Angular.js
Blazor
Backend development
C#
Ruby
Golang
Elixir
PHP
Scala
Java
Python
.NET
Node.js
Cloud development
AWS
Azure
Kubernetes
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Docker Compose
Docker Swarm
Nomad
Swift
Kotlin
Java
React Native
Flutter
Xamarin
QA tools
Selenium
Selenide
Playwright
Cypress
Appium
Cucumber
NUnit
TestNG
Mocha
Chai
Pytest
REST Assured
MSTest
xUnit
AI/ML
TensorFlow
PyTorch
scikit-learn
Keras
XGBoost
LightGBM
NLTK
spaCy
Transformers (by Hugging Face)
Gensim
OpenCV
Detectron2
YOLO
Mask R-CNN
Blockchain
Ethereum
Solana
Polygon
Binance Smart Chain
Cosmos SDK
OpenZeppelin
Sui
Ethers.js
web3.js
AR/VR and game dev
Unity
OpenCV
Vuforia
ARKit
Wikitude Augmented Reality
3DCoat
3ds Max
Maya
ZBrush
TopoGun
Blender
FAQs
What types of risks can you help us mitigate?
- Technical risks, such as poor software performance, low code quality, rigid architecture, and integration challenges.
- Business risks, including infeasibility, budget overruns, operational disruptions, project delays, and vendor lock-in.
Do we need software development consultants if we have an in-house development team?
Involving external software development consultants is always valuable whenever you need expert guidance, industry best practices, and an unbiased perspective.
How do you handle changing requirements during the project?
We follow three core principles:
- Flexible architecture at the heart of the software, ensuring adaptability.
- Agile development with iterative sprints, allowing continuous refinement.
- A clear change management process to assess, prioritise, and implement updates efficiently.
Smart strategies. Right decisions. Engineering peace of mind
This is what you gain when partnering with our consultants.