CRM and customer management
Contacts, enquiries, quotes and history in one place, tailored to your sales team.
Maximum intelligence. Fully automated. AI systems by core.iq
Maximum intelligence. Fully automated. AI systems by core.iq
If standard software does not fit your processes or costs high licence fees every month, we develop the solution ourselves. Applications for your company: CRM, customer portal, quoting tool, warehouse management, dashboards and whatever has no fitting product. Tailored to your processes, connected to your systems and combined with AI on request.
Custom software pays off as soon as you pay for a standard tool every month and still do three things by hand beside it. Typically businesses with a pricing logic, a warehouse or a check for which no subscription really fits.
We do not start with a hundred page specification, but with the part that costs you most today. That runs as a first version, and you decide from the result what comes next.
This is probably not for you if a standard tool already does ninety per cent of the job. The subscription is cheaper then.
Another subscription for every task, and each one only half fits.
One tool that matches your process exactly, paid for once.
The numbers that matter sit in three programs and a spreadsheet.
One screen where everything comes together, in your own terms.
The vendor raises the price or drops a feature you rely on.
What the software does is your decision, not a foreign roadmap.
Whether for sales, administration, customer service or logistics: we build the tools your team really needs.
Contacts, enquiries, quotes and history in one place, tailored to your sales team.
Customers view orders, documents and status themselves and submit requests online. Runs in the browser, on the phone like an app.
Quotes in minutes instead of hours, with your prices, templates and approvals.
Goods receipt, storage locations, picking and shipping, designed around your warehouse.
All key figures from your systems in one place, without exports or spreadsheets.
Connections where no ready-made integration exists, and simple interfaces for your team.
Three figures from studies and official statistics, plus one worked example you can check yourself.
That is why custom software is now an option for a business with ten employees at all. A few years ago it was a question of size.
Peng, Kalliamvakou, Cihon and Demirer, controlled experiment with GitHub Copilot, arXiv 2302.06590Subscription prices rise faster than wages and revenue. What looks bearable today is a fixed cost block in five years, renegotiated every year.
Gartner, worldwide IT spending forecast of 27 July 2026Over five years that is 36,000 francs, and none of it belongs to you afterwards.
Worked example: 15 users × CHF 40 × 12 monthsA tool that costs you an hour of detours every day therefore costs around 14,000 francs a year. On top of the licence you pay for it.
Swiss Federal Statistical Office, labour costs per hour worked, published via kmu.admin.chThe assessment: custom software is not always the answer. If an existing tool largely does the job, keeping it and connecting only the missing pieces is cheaper. We tell you before the quote which of the two routes costs you less. The direct comparison →
Many analyses live in one Excel file that a single person maintains and everyone else receives by email. We move the data into an application with a clear interface, calculate trends and charts on their own, and give everyone on the team the access they need.
Excel is a good start and a poor foundation. As soon as several people need the same file, copies appear, formulas break, and nobody knows which version counts.
The application takes over your existing data, checks entries, keeps a history and permissions, and evaluates without anyone touching a formula. It evaluates continuously, not at month end.
That is one field of use among many. We equally build applications that connect several systems, map approvals or run entire processes.
Many retailers pay external warehouse software fees per user or location, every month. Often the software only half fits their own processes, and interfaces cost extra.
We develop warehouse management that maps goods receipt, storage locations, picking and shipping exactly the way you work. Directly connected to your shop and accounting, at a fraction of the ongoing licence costs.
The same approach applies to a CRM, a customer portal, a quoting tool or a dashboard.
Standard software is built for the average. If you have your own processes, you often pay for features you do not need and miss the ones you do.
| External SaaS solution | Custom build by core.iq | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Licence per user or location, every month | A fraction of the ongoing licence costs |
| Features | Whatever the vendor provides | Tailored to your processes |
| Integration | Interfaces often at extra cost | Connected directly to your existing systems |
| Further development | On the vendor’s roadmap | As you need it |
| Intelligence | Fixed rules | Can be combined with AI, for example for forecasts, analyses or text suggestions |
We look at your processes together with you and record what the software needs to do.
You see early on how the solution looks and works, and you can have your say.
We build and test with real data and connect your systems.
The software runs, we monitor it and develop it further with you.
Where this comes from, what it costs and who owns the data.
We run our own systems that are in daily use: Product data and content for product data, Prices and promotions for prices and promotions, Product compliance checks for product checks and core.iq Studio for content. On top of that warehouse systems, portals and reporting for clients. That is the same work you would get.
We start with a first usable version, not with a large project. We cut the scope so that a manageable part runs first, and build on from there. Every step has a fixed price you know in advance. Support optional and cancellable monthly.
The solution runs on your infrastructure and the data stays there. What happens to source code, rights and documentation we put in writing before we start, instead of leaving it open. That way you know from the outset what belongs to you.
The most important answers at a glance.
Are you paying a lot today for software that does not quite fit? We will look at your processes and tell you frankly whether your own solution is worth it.