Internal Business Tools

Internal business app development

Digitalize, automate, and optimize your organization’s systems with tailored solutions built for your unique internal processes.

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17
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Happy clients
400+
Clutch rate
4.9
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12
Team members
130+
Top rated dev’s company
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12
50 Pros awards
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12
Top Inc 5,000 award
Bubble Gold Partner

Dedicated partner for custom internal business app development

From social media to on-demand services, video streaming, and more, we develop beautiful, robust, custom mobile apps, ensuring a seamless development experience from concept to post-launch.

Admin Panels

Centralize control and empower your team, whatever the business function or need, with intuitive, custom admin panels. 

Common Features:
  • Single point of control to manage business operations
  • Initiate, approve, or route tasks to the appropriate authority
  • Store and consolidate multiple data sources with an all-in-one source of truth
  • Activity logs and audit trails for enhanced security
  • Define user roles and permissions (Role-Based Access Control)
Dashboards

Leverage your in-house data and stay ahead of the curve with custom data dashboard visualizations. Make faster, more informed decisions with data-driven, actionable insights.

Common Features:
  • Integration with various data sources
  • Customizable data visualizations (charts, graphs, etc.)
  • Real-time metrics tracking with reports 
  • Drill-down capabilities for deeper insights
  • Projections and calculations
Customer Portals

Promote interaction and exceed satisfaction with portals built to elevate customer experience and boost retention. Provide customers direct access to interact with your company’s services, manage accounts, purchase and track orders, instantly, all within a secure, accessible platform. 

Common Features:
  • Quoting software with an online purchasing portal 
  • Real-time order tracking with notifications for status updates 
  • Exceptional, high-quality visual interfaces that foster customer delight 
  • Instant communication with your staff
  • Account and billing management with secure document storage and sharing
  • Loyalty programs to improve retention
  • Suggestive prompts that encourage repeat orders 
Operations

Whether moving from analog to digital or breaking free from generic or costly subscription-based SaaS tools, digitalize your processes, reduce bottlenecks, and optimize operational efficiency with custom internal tools built around your unique way of working.

Common Features:
  • Real-time operations and task tracking
  • Streamline and optimize operations or system flows  
  • Team-wide visibility into statuses 
  • Cross-departmental task assignment and hand-off 
  • Integration with existing systems 
Automation & Workflows

Enhance productivity and minimize human error with intelligent automation and workflow tools, freeing up time for more strategic work.

Common Features:
  • Customized workflows that align with your unique processes 
  • Breakdown silos across all systems, from accounting to ticketing, employee requests, and CRM (marketing, sales, and customer service)
  • Schedule or automate manual and repetitive tasks 
  • Error handling and fallback mechanisms
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Process & approach

Streamlined, delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with your business goals.

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Discover, Understand & Strategize

Our process begins with a comprehensive discovery phase. During this phase, we collaborate closely with your team to understand and define your project, including its purpose, target audience, technical requirements, key features and functionalities, as well as its short-term and long-term goals.

We're not just building a beautiful web app; we're creating an end product that aligns and resonates with your audience, business, and objectives, capturing its essence and intended use.

Plan & Wireframe

Once aligned, our team drafts a Project Requirement Document (PRD) detailing the project’s architecture, integrations, and technical requirements, including milestones and timelines. This process is meticulous and requires the approval of all project stakeholders before proceeding with design, as it will inform our approach to design, development, and testing, ensuring the end product meets your specific requirements and goals.

Upon approval, our design team prepares wireframes to serve as the blueprint for your web app, outlining its pages, structure, and user flow.

UX & UI Design

Design is everything. A beautiful interface with a balanced, robust experience is key to securing user engagement and retention. We understand and adhere to a design philosophy that guides all our applications, crafting intuitive, purposeful, and visually stunning web interfaces that elevate the user experience without compromising on design.

Upon kickoff, our design team creates high-fidelity prototypes using Figma, incorporating branding and other design elements to ensure a seamless user experience.

Front-End Development

Utilizing technologies like Bubble.io, our front-end development team translates the Figma designs into a functional web interface. Each app we build is designed with responsiveness in mind, allowing it to adapt effortlessly to any screen size—whether mobile, tablet, or desktop. This approach ensures a consistent, visually appealing experience across all devices.

Backend Development

As expert database architects, we optimize our database structures to achieve the highest standards of performance and scalability.

Our back-end team starts by building a secure user authentication flow, which enables reliable access management and data protection. Next, we translate your app's functions and features into programmable logic and determine which operations should run on the server-side for data-intensive processes and which should run on the client-side for faster, localized interactions.

This division of logic optimizes speed and efficiency. We then integrate third-party services and APIs to enhance functionality and support the front end, enriching the user experience via robust capabilities.

Security

Apart from quality, security is our highest priority. We embed rigorous security measures within each app, aligning with industry standards to protect data integrity, ensure privacy, and prevent unauthorized access.
We're not just building a beautiful web app; we're creating an end product that aligns and resonates with your audience, business, and objectives, capturing its essence and intended use.

This approach not only enhances your app’s performance but also ensures reliability and scalability, enabling a smooth, consistent, and secure user experience.

Testing & Quality 
Assurance

Effective quality assurance (QA) relies on clear communication and keen attention to detail. From the front-end interface to the back-end logic, our expert team of QA specialists conducts rigorous functionality testing, examining every detail to identify and communicate any issues that may arise. This ensures your app operates smoothly and meets all requirements before it goes live.

Launch & Post-Launch Partnership

At Rapid Dev, we're committed to our clients for the long run. Upon testing, our team handles the deployment process to facilitate a successful launch.

Post-launch, rest assured that we will continue to monitor and address any issues that may arise to ensure optimal functionality, performance, and user satisfaction. This includes implementing updates and enhancements, as well as incorporating user feedback, to ensure the continued success of your web app.

Tools & technology

Retool: the foremost internal tools builder for business apps

Retool streamlines the development process, incorporating a visual interface alongside traditional code for faster, more cost-effective development.

The platform's powerful, versatile visual builder, workflow toolkit, integration capabilities, and flexible backend enable us to break down complex processes and write custom code whenever necessary while connecting seamlessly to your organization's databases and systems.

By leveraging Retool’s advanced capabilities, we develop high-quality internal apps with complex logic, interactive components, and a centralized database with multiple sources for more intelligent internal tools beyond surface-level tasks and functionalities.

Trusted by 400+
businesses globally

Rapid Dev was an exceptional project management organization and the best development collaborators I've had the pleasure of working with.

They do complex work on extremely fast timelines and effectively manage the testing and pre-launch process to deliver the best possible product. I'm extremely impressed with their execution ability.

CPO, Praction
CPO
Working with Matt was comparable to having another co-founder on the team, but without the commitment or cost.

He has a strategic mindset and willing to change the scope of the project in real time based on the needs of the client. A true strategic thought partner!

Donald Muir
Co-Founder, Arc
Rapid Dev are 10/10, excellent communicators - the best I've ever encountered in the tech dev space.

They always go the extra mile, they genuinely care, they respond quickly, they're flexible, adaptable and their enthusiasm is amazing.

Co-CEO, Grantify
Mat Westergreen-Thorne
Rapid Dev is an excellent developer for no-code and low-code solutions.

We’ve had great success since launching the platform in November 2023. In a few months, we’ve gained over 1,000 new active users. We’ve also secured several dozen bookings on the platform and seen about 70% new user month-over-month growth since the launch.

Emmanuel Brown
Co-Founder, Church Real Estate Marketplace
Matt’s dedication to executing our vision and his commitment to the project deadline were impressive. 

This was such a specific project, and Matt really delivered. We worked with a really fast turnaround, and he always delivered. The site was a perfect prop for us!

Samantha Fekete
Production Manager, Media Production Company

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