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title: "About Clientflow"
description: "A UK software studio, founded in 2023 by Zac Santer and Sohail Chowdhary. We design and build bespoke client portals, internal tools and apps for established teams, at a fixed price scoped from a blueprint, and the client owns every account and the code."
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# The studio behind the blueprint.

A UK software studio, founded in 2023 by Zac Santer and Sohail Chowdhary. We design and build bespoke client portals, internal tools and apps for established teams, at a fixed price scoped from a blueprint, and the client owns every account and the code.

## Who you would be working with

The people who scope a build are the people who deliver it. There is no sales team in between.

**Zac Santer**, Co-founder and design lead. Zac scopes every build and writes the number on every quote. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-santer/)

**Sohail Chowdhary**, Co-founder and technical lead. Sohail designs the architecture, builds the backend and reads every change before it ships. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sohail-chowdhary-23084289/)

## The company

- **Founded**: 1 August 2023
- **Registered as**: Clientflow Ltd, a private limited company
- **Works with**: UK and US teams
- **Contact**: [hello@clientflow.ai](mailto:hello@clientflow.ai)

## What we build

Software for the part of the work that is being done twice: in a spreadsheet, in an email thread, or in a tool that almost fits.

- **[Client portals](https://www.clientflow.ai/client-portal-development)**: Your clients see and act on their own records: jobs, documents, approvals, invoices, requests.
- **[Internal tools](https://www.clientflow.ai/internal-tools-development)**: The approvals, requests, boards and audit trails that run the work, with your team on the other side of the same data.
- **[Apps](https://www.clientflow.ai/app-development)**: The same system on the web, macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.

## What we say no to

Some blueprint calls end with a recommendation and no invoice. A build that does not pay for itself is a bad reference and a worse relationship.

- **Builds under £10,000**: Not that the work cannot be done. It cannot be done well at a fixed price.
- **A standard workflow a product already serves**: If a product fits, the product wins, and we will point you at the setting.
- **A process that is still changing every month**: Run it by hand for a quarter, then build the version that survived.
- **A build with no owner inside the business**: Without a decision-maker, a build stalls and you pay for the stall.

## How a build runs

1. **Blueprint call** · Day one: Twenty minutes with the people who would scope the build, to work out what version one should contain, or whether to build at all.
2. **Blueprint** · Weeks 1 to 2: Scope, users, integrations and risks written down, with a clickable prototype, so the build is agreed before it starts.
3. **Build** · Weeks 3 to 8: Designed and built, AI-assisted for speed and senior-reviewed, wired into the systems you already run.
4. **Launch and handover** · Handover: Code, environments and documentation transferred to you, your team trained, and a warranty after launch.

## Yours from the first week

Owning software is the point, and it is arranged before the build starts rather than negotiated at the end.

- **The code**: A repository in your name from the first week.
- **The accounts**: Hosting and database opened in your name, in the region you choose, paid by you directly.
- **The intellectual property**: Assigned to you under the agreement. UK law does not hand it over by default; the agreement does.
- **The stack**: Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, PostgreSQL and Vercel. Standard and documented, so the next developer is useful on day one.
- **At handover**: You hold every account outright, including the ability to remove us.

## One price, from the blueprint

No hourly rate. The blueprint turns a band into one price in writing, and it moves only if the scope does.

- **[Three bands](https://www.clientflow.ai/pricing#bands)**: £10k to £25k, £25k to £50k and £50k and above, with what moves a build between them.
- **A warranty window, then a choice**: Anything that does not do what the blueprint says is fixed at no cost. After that, support is a fixed monthly fee and optional.

## What we publish, and how we check it

The guides put real numbers on what software costs, what it costs to run, and when not to build. Every third-party figure links to its source with the date it was read, and each guide carries the date it was last verified. [Read the guides](https://www.clientflow.ai/guides).