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Custom software has a system now.

Designed around how you work and built on a framework we’ve already perfected, so you pay only for what’s unique to you, and the app keeps getting better after launch.

Describe your problemOpen the demo app
A sample order app built on the framework: a sidebar with pages and saved views, an overview with orders by day, orders waiting for approval and recent activity.

The cost

Software people work around costs you twice

Once when you buy it, and again every day the real numbers live in a spreadsheet next to it. Office workers lose 7.9 hours a week to software that gets in their way. 88% of managers think their people have the tools they need; only 21% of average employees agree.

WalkMe, The State of Digital Adoption 2026: a survey of 3,750 people in 14 countries.

What every app we ship has to do

  1. Fits the way you work

    Designed around what your people do every day and tested with them, with nothing in it they don’t need. Clear on a laptop and on a phone.

  2. You can rely on it

    Roles, four-eyes approval, a history of every change and every screen state come from the framework, so nothing important is left to chance.

  3. Has a person behind it

    One named person answers for it. A fixed price after a design you can click through, and improvements every month once it runs. The code is yours.

The difference

Custom where it matters. Proven everywhere else.

Every business app needs the same foundations: roles, approvals, history, tables that work on a phone. We built them once, so your budget goes into what is yours.

Why we work this way
How Meadowstack compares with the usual options
Off-the-shelf toolsNotion, Airtable, TogglAI app buildersLovable, BoltAn agency from scratchBespoke developmentMeadowstackFramework and studio
Fits your processYour process bends to the toolWhat you ask for, not always what you needYesYes, made to measure
Roles, approvals, real dataGeneric, the same for everyoneMissing until someone adds themBuilt again for youReady in the framework
Who answers for itNo one in particularYouThe agencyOne named person
PriceLowLowHighCloser to off-the-shelf

  • Off-the-shelf tools · Notion, Airtable, Toggl

    Fits your process
    Your process bends to the tool
    Roles, approvals, real data
    Generic, the same for everyone
    Who answers for it
    No one in particular
    Price
    Low

  • AI app builders · Lovable, Bolt

    Fits your process
    What you ask for, not always what you need
    Roles, approvals, real data
    Missing until someone adds them
    Who answers for it
    You
    Price
    Low

  • An agency from scratch · Bespoke development

    Fits your process
    Yes
    Roles, approvals, real data
    Built again for you
    Who answers for it
    The agency
    Price
    High

  • Meadowstack · Framework and studio

    Fits your process
    Yes, made to measure
    Roles, approvals, real data
    Ready in the framework
    Who answers for it
    One named person
    Price
    Closer to off-the-shelf

Two ways in

Have it built, or build it yourself

Custom apps

From problem to working app

First we learn how your work runs and what slows it down. We design the app and you click through it before anything is built. Then you get a fixed price, we build it on a proven framework and the code is yours.

How a project runs
  • A plan firstScreens, roles and data, before anything is built.
  • A prototype to clickOn the real framework, so what you see is what you get.
  • A fixed priceIt doesn’t change unless the scope does.
  • You own the appAnd its code, with a licence for the framework.

An order waiting for approval in the sample app: the customer as the title, the order's properties, a decision card with Reject and Approve, and the history with a comment.

Examples

Real screens, not mockups

Fictional companies, each with an app shaped around its work. Yours is designed around you.

Brightpath Studio

Capacity against the hours sold, tasks and a channel with every client. One app instead of three.

Open this app: Brightpath StudioAssemble a similar app: Studios and services
Capacity against the budgets: what is left of each project's hours sold, an overload warning, and people by week with the hours planned on each project.
Brightpath Studio's task board: columns by state, cards with priority, labels and due dates.
Projects with the hours worked against the budget sold, what can be invoiced and which projects to watch.
A channel shared with a client: messages by day, reactions and a line where the new ones start.

Fernhill Coffee

A paid order invoices itself and books the courier. An assistant knows the stock.

Open this app: Fernhill CoffeeAssemble a similar app: Roasters and online shops
The assistant answers which coffees are running low: a stock table, a request to the supplier ready to send and the related scenario.
The online shop's order scenario on the canvas during a test run: the new order and the payment check are done, the invoice is being issued, the next steps wait.

Kestrel Accounting

Documents checked as they arrive and bank payments matched to invoices.

Open this app: Kestrel AccountingAssemble a similar app: Accounting offices
A client's invoice beside the fields read from it, with a warning that the supplier's account has changed and the choice to return it to the client or accept it with a reason.
Kestrel Accounting's invoices: what is to be paid, what is overdue and what came in this month, and every invoice with its state.
An overdue invoice next to its document: send a reminder or mark it paid, with its history.
Incoming bank payments with a suggested invoice and why it fits, paired in one click.

Juniper Kitchen

Three bistros: a rota against the takings, time off to approve and a handbook for new people.

Open this app: Juniper KitchenAssemble a similar app: Restaurants and venues
The rota of one bistro: shifts by person and day, a missing cook and a broken rest rule above, and the day's labour against the expected takings below.
Who is away in the next six weeks by branch, approved and waiting, with the requests below.
A handbook page next to the page tree: hygiene rules, a warning, steps and a table of temperatures.
A new colleague's onboarding: steps with an owner and a date, links to the handbook pages to read, and progress.

Riverside Sports Club

Court bookings you move by dragging, and one inbox for every message from members.

Open this app: Riverside Sports ClubAssemble a similar app: Sports venues
Court bookings on a timeline: courts in rows, bookings as blocks, the chosen booking's details on the right.
Members' messages from e-mail, the web and texts in one inbox, with the booking a message is about.

Stonebridge Construction

The weather against the plan, defects pinned on drawings and the foreman's phone on site.

Open this app: Stonebridge ConstructionAssemble a similar app: Construction
Weather against the plan: five sites over the week, the day's forecast in each cell and the work the frost or rain would stop, marked where it falls.
A floor plan with numbered pins: defects, questions and photos on the drawing, their list beside it with the state of each, and the drawing's revisions.
The foreman's day on site: the site, the weather with a frost warning for fresh concrete, the check-in and today's tasks.

Ridgeway Freight

A dispatch plan that checks the drivers' hours on every drag.

Open this app: Ridgeway FreightAssemble a similar app: Haulage
The dispatch plan: orders without a truck on the left, tractors and drivers over today and tomorrow with each driver's hours left, and the line of now.
Ridgeway Freight's reports: deliveries, on-time rate, kilometres and fuel, deliveries by day and by type.

Foldline Packaging

Print files checked in 3D, proofs the customer approves and the machines' week.

Open this app: Foldline PackagingAssemble a similar app: Packaging and print
The print file editor: the Hazel Tea carton laid flat with its numbered findings, the preflight beside it with an error and two warnings, and the switch between Flat, 3D and Separations.
A label as its customer sees it: the design on the coffee pouch, Approve for print or Return for changes, the job's details and the history with her earlier comment.
A customer's thread next to its job: the stage and the dispatch date, a summary of the thread saying whose turn it is, older messages folded into a line each and a reply box with templates.
Eight machines over the next five working days: runs as blocks by machine, dashed while they wait for a proof or data, the line of now on today, and above them the hours on the presses, what waits and the one run that would miss the courier.
An order waiting for approval: the amount, Approve and Reject, its history and a box for a comment.

Martin Kerr

Martin, a fitness creator, keeps his brand deals, content, money and training in one app. His coach sees only the training.

Open this app: Martin KerrAssemble a similar app: For individuals
Rights and exclusivity: what to watch, with an offer that collides with an exclusivity, and every deal's usage rights on a timeline with today.
Martin's day: energy and protein against the target, a wake-up time that moves the whole day, today's training and the meals by the hour with their macros.
The week on a board: seven days with a training or a rest day, the calories and place under each day, a summary and the history of changes.
Progress: the weight over twelve weeks against the goal weight, trainings by type and the training days.

Use cases

Who it’s for

The same framework from two sides: apps we build for you, or the framework for those who build their own.

Care

The part most studios skip

An app starts to age the day it launches. Care keeps yours healthy, comes with a warranty and makes it better every month from how your team really uses it.

How Care works

A monthly Care report in the product's style: monitoring, backups and updates with their state, three recommendations and the fixes made this month.

  • Warranty and fixesWe stand behind the app, and a person checks every fix before it ships.
  • A monthly reportWith the three changes that would help most.
  • Framework updatesPart of your Care subscription. Tested first, then rolled out in stages.
  • The code, if you want itWant your own developers to take over? We hand over the code, the data and a guide.

Rescue

An app built with AI, or an old system you depend on?

Apps started in Lovable or Bolt reach a first version fast, and older systems keep running for years while nobody dares touch them. Rescue gets them onto the framework: an audit, fixes in order of risk, then the move itself. Whatever works stays.

How Rescue works
  • Audit firstWhat is risky now, what can wait, what it costs.
  • Data and access checkedWho can read and change what, down to the database.
  • Fixes in order of riskData and access first, then the screens.
  • Moved onto the frameworkRoles, history, states and checks on every change.

A sample audit: findings to fix first, to fix soon and to keep, each with the area it concerns.

Framework

For teams who build their own

The same framework we build client apps on. Hand it to Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and the app comes out looking and behaving like a product team made it.

See what’s inside

A terminal running Claude Code: the prompt "Add a time-off module with approvals", the agent reads the framework's rules, uses the recipe for a new module, writes it, runs the checks and reports the module ready.

  • Components and patternsTables, forms, approvals: the parts of a business app.
  • Rules and skills for AIYour AI tool builds it one consistent way.
  • RecipesOrders, approvals, bookings and more, step by step.
  • Checks AI would missColours, contrast, screen states, accessibility.

Questions

Something else? Write to us or at hello@meadowstack.com.

Apps we build for you

Why not just use Notion, Airtable or an AI app builder?

Use them where they fit. Off-the-shelf tools are cheap, but your process bends to them and the real work ends up in a spreadsheet next to them. AI app builders get a first version working fast, then stall at roles, real data and someone who answers for the app. We build exactly what your process needs, on a framework that already handles the hard, invisible parts.

How can you cost less than an agency? Where’s the catch?

There is less to build. An agency starts every client from a blank page and bills you again for tables, forms, roles and approvals. Those come ready from our framework, tested in every app we ship, so you pay only for what is unique to your business. The framework also gives your app things an app built from scratch rarely gets, because the budget runs out first: a precise UI and UX, better motion, keyboard shortcuts and many small details that make an app pleasant to work in. AI writes much of the code; a person designs the app, reviews every change and answers for it.

Who answers for the app, and what if you’re not around?

One named person answers for your app. Within Care we stand behind it: we monitor it and fix what breaks. If you would rather develop it with your own developers, we hand over the code, the data and a handover guide. You own the app and its code, and your licence for the framework lasts as long as the app runs, even if you leave us. And if you want more freedom, you can buy the whole framework and use it however you like.

Who owns the code?

You own your app and its code. The framework underneath stays ours, and your app gets a licence to use it for as long as it runs. Framework updates come with your Care subscription.

How long does it take?

Solver comes first and ends with a fixed offer that includes the timeline for your Build. While we build, you follow progress on a preview link.

Can it connect to the tools we already use?

Yes, as long as the tool has an API. Each integration with one of your tools is built once and tested, a simple one from €390, a two-way one or one with an ERP or accounting system from €990. Keeping it working when the other side changes is part of Care.

Where does our data live, and is it safe?

On your own accounts if you prefer to hold the keys, or we run the app for you as a Hosting add-on to Care, with daily backups. Who can read and change what is enforced in the database too, not only on the screen.

Do we need Care?

Every Build comes with three months of Care Start. After that you choose a level of Care or take the app over yourself. With Care we stand behind the app, you get framework updates and the app improves from real use. More about Care.

Can you take over an app someone built with AI, or an old system?

Yes, that is what Rescue is for: an audit first, then fixes in order of risk, then a move onto the framework. It suits apps made with AI tools as well as older systems you want rebuilt on the framework. Whatever works stays.

How do we start?

Describe your problem in the form or at hello@meadowstack.com. A few sentences are enough. We reply with questions or a proposal for Solver.

The framework

What do I need to use the framework?

Node.js, an editor and an AI coding tool that reads AGENTS.md, such as Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. The apps are ordinary React and TypeScript, so some experience with them helps.

Can I use it for client work?

Yes. The licence is per developer, with unlimited projects, including apps you build for clients. You can’t resell the framework itself.

What do designers get?

The same framework as everyone else. A Figma file of the framework is in preparation, and designers get it as part of their purchase.

What is the Founding 50?

The first 50 buyers get the licence at half the price. Updates for as long as we develop the framework: Solo €179 and Team €399. Updates for 12 months: Solo €125 and Team €320. That means future versions of the framework, not Care, personal support or custom work.

Can we buy just the framework?

Yes, that is the second way in. See the framework.

Tell us what slows your team down.

Describe your problemSee the framework