Software support and maintenance
Reliable ownership for existing bespoke systems, including bug fixes, small enhancements, dependency updates, security patches, performance improvements, deployments, and troubleshooting.
Services
Support, stabilisation, modernisation, and technical advisory.
Fostech is a lean, senior-led technical practice. Work is selected and scoped around named systems, clear priorities, realistic capacity, and the level of operational risk involved.
Application stabilisation and project rescue
Assessment and recovery work for fragile, unsupported, under-documented, or supplier-dependent systems, followed by staged improvement planning.
Cloud, hosting, and DevOps support
Support across cloud-hosted and hybrid systems, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, environments, deployment automation, monitoring, backup planning, and hosting cost review.
Security updates and risk reduction
Practical remediation across authentication, permissions, secrets, hosting configuration, deployment processes, backups, monitoring, dependencies, and known vulnerabilities.
Integrations and automation
Design, build, and maintenance of integrations between bespoke applications, CRMs, CMSs, ecommerce platforms, reporting tools, Microsoft 365, cloud services, and third-party APIs.
Product development and feature delivery
Delivery of new features, internal tools, portals, APIs, dashboards, reporting systems, ecommerce functionality, workflow automation, and data import/export processes.
Legacy modernisation
Incremental improvement of ageing applications through refactoring, dependency upgrades, framework migrations, database improvements, cloud migration, API extraction, and documentation.
AI-enabled software
Practical AI-enabled features such as document assistants, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, classification workflows, ingestion pipelines, and internal tools.
Technical advisory
Senior technical advice for founders, leadership teams, and organisations that need architectural judgement without hiring a full-time CTO.
Client ownership
Clients stay in control of their accounts, systems, and suppliers.
Where practical, clients should own and pay for their own hosting, domains, software licences, subscriptions, cloud accounts, repositories, and third-party services directly. Fostech can help configure, support, maintain, and improve those services, while keeping ownership and responsibility clear.