Describe your business problem.Get the software answerbefore you write a spec.
ZACSOL builds web, mobile, AI automation and custom software. Start with ZAC Consultant — it asks a few questions, then returns a recommended solution, the features it needs, a timeline and a cost range. Free, and in about three minutes.
Budget and timeline rarely disappear in one bad decision. They drain through four predictable gaps that nobody owns until it's too late to correct them.
Industry baseline
66%
of software projects overrun budget or schedule. — Standish CHAOS report
Leak 01
Scope drift
Requirements move faster than the plan. Every change is re-estimated from scratch and the date slides quietly.
Leak 02
Handover debt
The agency leaves, the docs don't exist, and your team spends a quarter learning what was built.
Leak 03
Invisible progress
You get status decks instead of working software, and find out you're behind when it's too late to correct.
Leak 04
Fragile releases
Every deploy is an event. No CI, no rollback, no confidence — so shipping slows to protect uptime.
The fix
Every leak has a fix. Here's what changes.
Same four numbers, same order. This is the operating model, not a promise.
Leak 01 →
Scope you can hold us to
Fixed-scope phases with a written change protocol. You always know what a change costs before we start it.
Scope doc
Leak 02 →
Handover from day one
Docs, decision records and a recorded walkthrough written as we build — not assembled the week we leave.
Runbook
Leak 03 →
Working software every Friday
A deployed environment you can click, every week. Status is something you use, not something you're told.
Staging URL
Leak 04 →
Boring, repeatable releases
CI, automated tests, one-command rollback. Deploys become a non-event by design.
Most agencies ask for your budget. We ask what's broken.
ZAC Consultant is a real working tool, not a chatbot widget. Describe the problem in your own words and it produces a project roadmap you can take to your board — whether or not you hire us.
Yes, and you see the recommendation, feature list and timeline on screen before we ask for anything. Contact details are only needed to email you the full roadmap document.
What happens to what I type into it?
It's used to generate your roadmap and, if you submit contact details, stored in our CRM so a senior engineer can pick up the thread. We don't sell or share it, and you can ask us to delete it at any time.
How long does a typical project take?
Most builds land between 8 and 20 weeks. Discovery takes one to two weeks and ends with a fixed scope and estimate, so you know the real number before committing to the build.
How do you price work?
Fixed price per phase after discovery, or a monthly rate for an embedded team. No hourly billing, and no change without a written estimate you approve first.
Can you take over an existing codebase?
Yes — it's a large share of our work. We start with a one-week audit: what's salvageable, what's risk, what it costs to stabilise. You get that report whether or not you continue with us.
Do you build AI features, or just use AI?
We build them. ZAC on this site is our own work — retrieval, evaluation, guardrails and all. We scope every AI feature to a measurable saving before writing code, because most don't survive that test.
Next step
Start with the problem. We'll bring the software.
Three minutes with ZAC Consultant gets you a recommended solution, a feature list, a timeline and a cost band. Then decide whether you want to talk to us.
