We build the software your business runs on.

Booking systems, customer portals, admin dashboards, the automation behind them. Designed, built and looked after by the same people you talk to on the first call. When it ships, you own it.

The Planika dashboard: today’s appointments, staff utilization, top services and the studio’s booking link
Planika, our own booking platform for small studios and personal instructors. Built by us, run by us, now taking on early studios.Visit

Built on technology we trust

In the cloud or on your own hardware. We run Kubernetes clusters, bare-metal servers and HPC systems ourselves, so scaling is something we have done, not something we outsource.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Spring Boot
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Linux
  • Traefik
  • AWS
What we do

One team for everything you need to ship

Six services that fit together. Start with a website, grow into a platform, and automate the parts of your business that shouldn't need a human.

Web & mobile apps

Booking tools, client portals, online shops, dashboards. Built around how your business actually runs, and pleasant enough that your customers use them without being told to.

For example. CurveworldMTL: members book classes and buy packages from their phone, the gym runs everything from one dashboard. Read the case study

Websites

A clear, fast site that says what you do and makes it easy to get in touch. No page builder, nothing you have to fight with later.

For example. planika.davlsystems.com, the site for our own product. See it

SaaS platforms

A product other businesses pay to use. Accounts, billing, roles, the lot. We run one ourselves, so we know what breaks at 2am.

For example. Planika, our booking platform for small studios, now taking on early customers. See it

AI automation

The repetitive work handed to software: sorting what comes in, drafting the reply, moving data from a document into your system.

For example. Typical jobs: triaging inbound requests, first-draft replies, pulling figures out of PDFs into a spreadsheet or your app.

Integrations & analytics

Payments, email, analytics and the tools you already use, wired into one place so nobody has to copy things between five tabs.

For example. Inside CurveworldMTL: Stripe payments, automatic emails, and English/French in one app. Read the case study

Chatbots

A bot on your site that answers the questions you get asked every day, and hands anything unusual to a person.

For example. Typical jobs: opening hours, pricing, "do you do X", booking a call, all without someone watching the inbox.

Not sure which of these you need? Most people aren't when they first write to us. Tell us what's slowing you down and we'll tell you which one it is.

Tell us what you need
Why Davl

There are four ways to get this built

We'd rather you pick the right one than the expensive one. Here is an honest read on all four, including the cases where we are not the answer.

A freelancer

Fine while the scope is small and stays small.

Built around how you actually work
Yes
Still the right tool in three years
Depends
You own the code and the data
Yes
Someone is still there after launch
No
What it costs
Cheapest upfront

A large agency

Fine if your budget makes you a priority account.

Built around how you actually work
Yes
Still the right tool in three years
Yes
You own the code and the data
Yes
Someone is still there after launch
Depends
What it costs
Highest, by a lot

Off-the-shelf SaaS

Fine until you need it to do something it doesn’t.

Built around how you actually work
No
Still the right tool in three years
Yes
You own the code and the data
No
Someone is still there after launch
Yes
What it costs
Every month, forever

Davl Systems(that's us)

Worth it when the software is how your business runs.

Built around how you actually work
Yes
Still the right tool in three years
Yes
You own the code and the data
Yes
Someone is still there after launch
Yes
What it costs
Negotiable, we support any type of business model

Not sure which column you belong in? Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll say so, even when the answer is one of the other three.

Get an honest read
How we work

A process with no black boxes

You always know what we're building, why, and what it costs. Every stage ends with something you can see and use.

  1. 01

    Discover

    We start with your business, not your tech stack. What slows you down, what your customers expect, what success looks like in twelve months.

    You get. A written plan: what we build, in what order, and what it costs.

  2. 02

    Design

    Clickable designs before a line of production code. You see the product, react to it, and change it while changes are still cheap.

    You get. A prototype you can click through and show to your team.

  3. 03

    Build

    Short cycles with something working at the end of each one. Modern, well-tested foundations that scale as your usage grows.

    You get. A working version at the end of every cycle, not just at the end.

  4. 04

    Support

    Launch is the start. We monitor, improve, and extend the platform, and you keep full ownership of it throughout.

    You get. Monitoring, fixes and new features. The code and the data stay yours.

Case study

What one platform was actually worth

No logo wall and no rounded-up numbers. One product, live in production, and exactly what it changed for the business running on it.

The CurveworldMTL home page: a gym booking platform for a studio in Montréal
CurveworldMTL was paying a monthly fee to rent someone else's booking system. Now they own theirs: the branding, the data, and what gets built next.
$1–2K/year
Subscription cost removed

They stopped renting a booking system and started owning one.

600+
Members on the platform

Registering, buying packages, and booking without a phone call.

50+
Classes booked weekly

Scheduling, payments, and reminders running on their own.

2 months
From zero to launch

First conversation to real members using it in production.

Why we do this

Give small businesses the tools big ones take for granted

Big companies have software built around them. Small ones get whatever the subscription offers. We think a gym, a studio or a shop deserves the first kind, and we stay for the long run, because a platform gets better the longer the same people look after it.

  1. 01

    Tailored, never templated

    Every business is different. We build around how yours actually works instead of forcing it into someone else’s product.

  2. 02

    Built to scale with you

    The platform you launch with should still hold up at ten times the traffic. We architect for that from day one.

  3. 03

    Support that outlasts launch

    We stay after go-live: monitoring, improving, and adding what your customers ask for next.

Get in touch

Tell us what you're building

A few lines is enough. We'll come back with honest feedback, a rough scope, and what it would take to build it. No obligation.

Goes straight to us, not a ticket queue.