Absorb Endurance
Every day dev
Absorb Endurance
Every day dev
Absorb Endurance Ltd builds custom business systems, web applications and integrations from Worthing, for clients across the UK. We write the documentation as we go, on the assumption that one day somebody else will have to read it.
Every build ships with its documentation, a runbook and a full access list, kept current from day one rather than assembled at the end. If you replaced us next month, the next team would not have to start by guessing.
The developer who sits in your discovery session writes the code. There is no account layer in between, and no quiet handoff to somebody you have never spoken to.
Usually because the work is a patch on something that needs replacing, or because another studio is already halfway through it and swapping horses would cost you more than finishing. Thirty minutes on a call is normally enough to tell.
Absorb Endurance began in November 2019, a fortnight after a stock system in a Lancing warehouse quietly stopped reconciling and nobody could find the contractor who had written it.
Rob had been brought in to look at something else entirely. He spent eleven days reading undocumented code with no comments, no tests and one deployment script named final2. The warehouse kept trading on paper while he worked.
The rebuild that followed took four months and went badly. We under-scoped it, absorbed the overrun ourselves and still delivered three weeks late. That is where the two rules above came from: nothing ships without a written handover, and no build starts without a paid discovery that either side can walk away from.
Seven years on we are a small team working from Worthing with clients from Brighton to Manchester — logistics, professional services, a couple of manufacturers. We are not the cheapest quote you will get, and we are straightforward about which projects we are wrong for.
Starting figures for a first engagement. Tap a line to add it to your enquiry.
Prices are a starting point, not a quote. Every figure is confirmed in writing after discovery and before any build work begins, and we will tell you on the first call if your budget and the problem do not meet.
You describe the problem. We tell you roughly what it costs, how long it takes, and whether we are the right studio for it. When we are not, we say so on the call and point you at someone who is.
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These terms govern use of this website and any enquiry made through it. The contracting party is Absorb Endurance Ltd, a company registered in England & Wales, company number 17374716, registered office 56 Richmond Road, Heslington House, Apartment 7, Worthing, BN11 1PS. "We" and "us" mean that company. This website is operated by Absorb Endurance Ltd.
We provide software development services: custom business systems, web applications and client portals, systems integration and API work, legacy modernisation, technical discovery and audit, and ongoing support and iteration.
The figures on this website are starting points for a first engagement and are not an offer capable of acceptance. Prices are quoted exclusive of VAT where VAT applies. The price for your work is the one set out in the written proposal you sign. Written proposals are valid for 30 days from their date; after that we may re-quote.
Enquiries are made through the form on this website, by email or by telephone. No payment is taken through this website. Work begins once we have issued a written proposal or statement of work and you have accepted it in writing.
We invoice separately from this website. Unless the proposal says otherwise, discovery is invoiced in full at the start, build work is invoiced against agreed milestones, and support retainers are invoiced monthly in advance. Invoices are payable within 14 days. We may charge statutory interest on late payment under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998.
Each proposal sets out the milestones and target dates for the work. Delivery is by deployment to your environment or ours as agreed, with the source code, documentation, runbook and access list handed over at completion. Timelines assume you supply the access, information, content and decisions the work needs within the agreed windows; where they are late, dates move by a corresponding period and we will tell you in writing. If we are going to miss a milestone for any reason of our own, we tell you as soon as we know and agree a revised date at no extra cost.
Where we have not performed a service with reasonable care and skill and cannot put it right within a reasonable time, you are entitled to a price reduction or a refund of the affected fees. Fixed-fee discovery is refundable in full if you cancel before we begin work, and not refundable once the two weeks have started, since the output is delivered at the end of it. Retainer fees are not refundable for a month already begun; the retainer simply ends after your 30 days' notice. Approved refunds are paid to the original payment method within 14 days of agreement. If you are a consumer, this clause is in addition to your rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, not instead of them.
Either party may end a support retainer on 30 days' written notice. For project work, cancellation terms are set out in the proposal; work completed and costs committed up to the cancellation date remain payable. If you are a consumer rather than a business, you have a statutory right to cancel a contract made at a distance within 14 days of entering it. If you ask us to begin work inside that period you must pay for what has been done up to the point you cancel, and the right to cancel ends once the service is fully performed. To cancel, email [email protected].
On full payment, ownership of the custom source code written for you passes to you. We retain ownership of our pre-existing tools, libraries and know-how, and grant you a perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use them as part of your delivered system. Third-party and open-source components remain under their own licences, which we identify on delivery. The content and design of this website remain ours.
We provide our services with reasonable care and skill as required by the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 and, where you are a consumer, the Consumer Rights Act 2015. We correct defects reported within 30 days of delivery that arise from our work, at no charge. Nothing in these terms limits your statutory rights.
We do not exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. Subject to that, our total liability arising from an engagement is limited to the fees paid by you for that engagement, and we are not liable for loss of profit, loss of data where you have not maintained your own backups, or indirect loss. These limits do not apply to a consumer to the extent the law does not allow them.
You agree to provide the access, information and timely decisions the work needs, to hold the rights to any material you give us, and to maintain your own backups of live data.
We handle personal data as described in the Privacy Policy. Where we process personal data on your behalf during an engagement, we do so under a separate written data-processing agreement.
Raise any complaint with us first, by email to [email protected]; we acknowledge within 3 working days and aim to resolve within 20. If we cannot agree, both parties will consider mediation before starting proceedings.
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the UK, you may bring proceedings in your own jurisdiction.
We may update these terms; the version in force is the one published here on the date of your enquiry.