Software support and maintenance
Reliable support for existing bespoke software and business-critical systems, including bug fixes, small enhancements, dependency updates, security patches, performance improvements, deployments, and troubleshooting.
Services
Software support, development, integration, and technical ownership.
Fostech is a focused technical practice for organisations that depend on bespoke software, internal tools, integrations, websites, and cloud-hosted systems. Work can include ongoing support, hands-on development, stabilisation, productionising prototypes, retained technical leadership, and fractional CTO support where useful.
Product development and feature delivery
Practical delivery of new features, internal tools, portals, APIs, dashboards, ecommerce functionality, workflow automation, and incremental improvements that fit the wider technical landscape.
Integrations and automation
Design, build, and maintenance of integrations, automations, data import/export processes, reporting workflows, and API connections between business systems.
Application stabilisation and project rescue
Assessment and recovery work for fragile, unsupported, under-documented, supplier-dependent, or partially delivered software systems, followed by staged improvement planning.
Prototype and internal tool productionisation
Review, hardening, documentation, deployment, and maintainability work for prototypes, AI-built tools, vibe-coded apps, dashboards, automations, and supplier-built features that need to become reliable business software.
Technical leadership retainers
Senior technical guidance and fractional CTO support alongside hands-on delivery, helping organisations prioritise work, coordinate suppliers, shape sensible plans, and keep important software moving.
Cloud, hosting, and DevOps support
Support across cloud-hosted and hybrid systems, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, environments, deployment automation, monitoring, backup planning, security configuration, and hosting cost review.
Legacy modernisation
Incremental improvement of legacy applications through refactoring, technical debt reduction, dependency upgrades, framework migrations, database improvements, cloud migration, API extraction, and documentation.
Discovery, scoping, and specification
Turning loose ideas, stakeholder requests, operational problems, and early prototypes into clear briefs, acceptance criteria, phased plans, realistic estimates, and sensible technical decisions.
Systems architecture and integration planning
Assessment and planning across bespoke applications, CRMs, CMSs, ecommerce platforms, reporting tools, Microsoft 365, cloud services, data flows, third-party APIs, and supplier-owned systems.
AI-enabled software
Practical AI-enabled features such as document assistants, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, classification workflows, ingestion pipelines, and internal tools.
Client ownership
Clients stay in control while technical work gets a clear owner.
Where practical, clients should own and pay for their own hosting, domains, software licences, subscriptions, cloud accounts, repositories, and third-party services directly. Fostech can help prioritise, specify, configure, support, maintain, integrate, and improve those services, while keeping decision-making, supplier responsibility, and long-term ownership clear.