How It Works?
A clear, honest app and software development process built around how Irish businesses actually work, with quality and efficiency at every step from ideation to launch.
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Like with all projects, success is relative to a well formulated and calculated plan, making planning the most important step when undertaking any new software project. At Square Root Solutions, we spend time planning with our clients, providing professional feedback and advice from an experienced and qualified team, ensuring you get a comprehensive plan and a detailed, accurate quote before any work begins.
No inflated estimates, no disappearing after the deposit clears, and no assuming every Irish business has a dedicated in-house tech team to manage us.
How we work with you
Every Irish business engages differently, whether you're a bootstrapped startup in Dublin or an established SME expanding across the country. Choose the model that fits how you want to build.
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Fixed Price
Best for projects with a clear, well-defined scope. We agree the full specification, timeline, and quote upfront in euro, so you know exactly what you're getting and when. Ideal for MVPs, defined feature builds, and Irish startups working to a fixed funding round or grant budget.
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Dedicated Team
Best for ongoing product development or businesses that need consistent capacity over time. You get a dedicated team of developers, designers, and a project manager, working exclusively on your product as your roadmap evolves.
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Time & materials
Best for projects where scope is likely to change. You pay for the actual time and resources used, with full flexibility to adjust priorities as you learn more about your market. Ideal for Irish businesses still validating product-market fit.
Built the agile way
We build in short, visible sprints, not long stretches of silence followed by a big reveal.
We work in two-week agile sprints. At the end of every sprint, you see working software, not a status update. This means you can test, give feedback, and adjust direction early, before a small course correction becomes an expensive rebuild.
Stories, not guesswork
We break your project into small, user-focused pieces of work, each describing a real feature from your customer's perspective, keeping development focused on what actually matters to your Irish and European users.
Continuous delivery
Every completed piece of work is deployed to a staging environment you can access and test yourself, not held back until the end of the project.
Understanding your requirements
Tell us about your project
Tell us all about your project, telling us as much or as little as you feel appropriate. We ask basic questions surrounding your requirements, getting a better idea of your project and your vision, so we can give you a ball-park estimated cost for completion.
We ask the questions
After discussing with our team, we compile a personalised list of questions to entirely understand the technical requirements of your project.
Project outline
We provide a detailed description of the project for your feedback, listing all the discussed features and elements, including sample graphics and all technological requirements.
Final project specifications
We provide a full and final specification document, including the final, detailed quote and projected timeline, accompanied by a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).
From idea to launch
A clear, structured process that takes your project from first conversation to live product, with no surprises along the way.
1. Prototyping & wireframing
1. Prototyping & wireframing
Based on the project's final specifications, we provide a prototype, giving you a responsive demo of what the final product will look and feel like. During this stage you get a much better idea of navigation flow and how users will interact with the app, helping find any possible queries or confusions before we start with graphics and UI/UX designing.
2. App & web designing
2. App & web designing
We ask for your feedback on the graphics and interface, refining the prototype accordingly. This step ensures our vision is aligned with yours prior to any development, with colour scheme and design strategy clearly defined, leaving no room for surprises during project execution.
3. Development
3. Development
Ensuring each of our projects is of the highest quality is extremely important to us. Everything we deliver is put through extensive testing at each stage before we pass on a build for you to test and provide feedback, ensuring a product ready for successful release.
4. Scalable when it matters, not before
4. Scalable when it matters, not before
We've worked with Irish businesses at every stage, from a two-person startup team to organisations managing hundreds of thousands of users nationally. We design for scale where your growth plan genuinely requires it, and as you grow, whether expanding from an Irish audience to European markets or scaling nationally, we scale the architecture with you.
5. Security built in, not bolted on
5. Security built in, not bolted on
Every project is built to ISO 27001 information security standards, with GDPR compliance and EU data residency considered from day one, essential for any Irish business handling customer data. If your project involves AI, it's also governed to ISO 42001, and Square Root Solutions is one of Ireland's first companies to achieve ISO 42001:2023 certification.
6. Testing & production rollout
6. Testing & production rollout
The project is now complete and your vision is now a reality. We upload your application to the relevant app store ready for its first download. Our relationship doesn't stop there, we provide maintenance and support to meet your needs, always in a quick and efficient manner, including complimentary support from the date your app is made public.
You know your business. We know how to build it.
Nobody understands your Irish customers, your market, and your goals better than you. Your role is to stay involved, prioritise what matters most, and give us honest feedback as we go. In return, we make sure you always have the information you need to make confident decisions, in plain language, not technical jargon.
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Frequently Asked Questions
No, but being based in Dublin means we understand the Irish market and Irish regulatory context, which shapes how we approach every project, including those for clients across Europe.
Yes. Every project is built with GDPR compliance and EU data residency in mind, and we're ISO 27001 certified for information security.
No. Many Irish businesses we work with don't have an in-house tech team. We communicate in plain language and keep you informed at every step.
We work with businesses across a range of budgets. Fixed price, dedicated team, or time and materials, we'll recommend the model that fits your situation.
That's normal, which is why we work in agile sprints. We'll show you exactly how a change affects timeline and cost before anything is agreed.