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Your business runs on spreadsheets.
It shouldn't.

Direct Softworks replaces the spreadsheets, email chains, and disconnected tools running your operations with one custom system, built around how your business already works.

  • One fixed-price proposal
  • You own the source code
  • Built by the person you talk to

Built on tools your IT team trusts

Your system runs on and integrates with mainstream, battle-tested platforms — so you're never locked in, and never dependent on us.

  • Oracle
  • IBM
  • Salesforce
  • Atlassian

The problem

Sound familiar?

It isn't a software problem, it's a visibility problem: you can't trust your own numbers, and neither can the people making decisions with them.

A spotlit burst of dark grid-etched panels erupting from rows of stacked sheets01

The 47-tab workbook. One Excel file runs the whole operation. One person knows how it actually works. They're on holiday.

Three metal prisms each projecting a differently coloured grid toward one centre02

Three versions of the truth. Sales quotes one number, accounting reports another, the warehouse counts a third. Every meeting starts with twenty minutes of figuring out whose is right.

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The copy-paste relay. An order arrives by email, gets retyped into the ERP, then into a spreadsheet, then into an invoice. Four systems, four chances for a typo that reaches a customer.

A metallic monthly calendar tile lit from the side in the dark04

Deciding on last month's data. By the time the monthly report is assembled by hand, it describes a business that no longer exists.

The cost of doing nothing

The mess has a payroll line. It's just hidden.

Spreadsheets feel free. The bill just lands somewhere other than a software invoice.

A dark, brushed-metal clock with a glowing centre
90+ hoursa month

The equivalent of a part-time hire, spent moving data between systems by hand.

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4–6 weeksbehind reality

Hand-built reports describe last month. The big calls get made in the rear-view mirror.

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1 workbookone point of failure

The whole operation lives in one file and one person's head. A sick week and it holds its breath.

The shift

From three guesses to one number you trust.

The same operation, before and after one connected system — and what the gap between them is quietly costing you every month.

<3 min

to raise an invoice — down from 20

1,284

live shipments on one dashboard

100%

of the source code ends up in your hands

~4 wk

typical payback on a system

How it works

From first call to running system

Each step is a checkpoint. Stop anytime — the price never moves.

  1. 01
    30 minutes

    Discovery

    A short call. We map where time and data leak. No slides.

    You get: A map of your biggest bottlenecks

    Walk away free
  2. 02
    Within a week

    Proposal

    One document — scope, fixed price, timeline. Yours to keep.

    You get: A fixed-price plan, no commitment

    No commitment
  3. 03
    From week 2

    Build

    Working software by week two. You steer as it takes shape.

    You get: A live system you click through weekly

    Course-correct
  4. Handover

    Launch

    Live on your servers, code handed over. Then we stay reachable.

    You get: The running system + all source code

    You own it

Recent work

Calm screens, dense with your data

Interfaces designed for people who use them eight hours a day — no decoration, no clutter, everything one keystroke away. Here are the two most recent, with the numbers.

More on the projects page.

Technology

Boring technology, on purpose

No exotic frameworks your next developer has never heard of. Everything we build uses mainstream, battle-tested tools - so you're never locked in, and never dependent on us.

React
TypeScript
Node.js
Next.js
PHP
C#
.NET
Electron
MySQL
PostgreSQL
SQL Server
SQLite
Docker
Kubernetes
Cloudflare
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud
DigitalOcean
Stripe
Salesforce
HubSpot
Google Workspace

Also wired into: WPF · WinForms · REST APIs · Webhooks · ANAF e-Factura · VIES · BNR rates · ING statements

FAQ

The questions that decide it

Marketing websites and landing pages start at €900, business management software at €3,000, Windows and desktop applications at €4,000, and automation or integration work is priced per scope. All figures exclude VAT. After the discovery call you get one fixed price for your exact scope - that number doesn't move mid-project.

Typical ranges: a marketing website in 1–2 weeks, an integration or automation in 2–6 weeks, business management software in 4–8 weeks, a desktop application in 6–12 weeks. Your proposal includes a concrete timeline for your scope.

Off-the-shelf tools are genuinely great when your process fits theirs. The pain starts when it doesn't: you bend the business around the software, pay per seat forever, and still export to a spreadsheet for the one report that actually matters. Custom is worth it when a specific workflow is core to how you operate and no template quite fits — you get exactly your process, one system instead of five subscriptions, and code you own outright. If a standard tool genuinely fits you better, we'll say so on the discovery call.

You do. The code we write for you, the database, and the intellectual property in them transfer to you on final payment - and the standard components underneath come with a permanent, unrestricted licence. No per-seat fees, nothing to renew, no lock-in.

You'd be fine - deliberately so. The code is yours, it's documented, the infrastructure runs under your accounts, and it's built on mainstream technology. Any competent developer can pick it up.

Wherever you prefer: your own AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or DigitalOcean accounts, or on-premises. We set everything up, and can manage it for you or hand over the keys.

Every defect is fixed at no charge for 30 days after acceptance - that's part of the delivery, not a favor. Critical ones we fix free for as long as you use the system, with no time limit: if it goes down, loses data, or exposes it, that's ours to put right whenever it happens. Beyond that, most clients keep a light support arrangement; others come back only when they want something new.

Systems are built modular for exactly this reason. Describe the change, get a small fixed quote, and it's added - usually by the person who wrote the original code.

The system runs on your infrastructure with encrypted connections, role-based access, and audit logs where they matter. GDPR is the baseline, not an add-on - we're EU-based ourselves.

Because the cost of the current setup is already running. Every month of manual re-keying, stale reports, and know-how trapped in one person's head is paid whether or not you fix it — six months of delay is six months of that bill with nothing to show. The discovery call is free and the proposal is fixed-price, so the cheapest time to at least know the number is now.

Yes - discovery, demos, and delivery all work over video calls and screen shares. On-site visits are possible within Romania when a project genuinely benefits from one.

Yes, training and written documentation are part of launch. The goal is your team using the system confidently on day one - not calling us to ask where a button is.

See your whole business in one place.

Book a 30-minute discovery call. You'll leave with a clear map of where your operation leaks time and data - useful whether or not we ever work together.

A fixed proposal follows within a week of the call. No pressure, no follow-up sequence.