Unico Connect

Enterprise Application Development Built to Scale

Enterprise applications built for your exact operations: custom platforms, system integration, legacy modernization, and AI powered software. An ISO 27001 certified, AI native team of 90 with 350+ products shipped across 25+ countries, published pricing, and delivery measured in weeks.

Sales and finance platform for a diversified manufacturer
Digital wealth onboarding platform
Highlands School ERP and learning platform
Sales and finance platform for a diversified manufacturer
Digital wealth onboarding platform
Highlands School ERP and learning platform
Sales and finance platform for a diversified manufacturer
Digital wealth onboarding platform
Highlands School ERP and learning platform
Sales and finance platform for a diversified manufacturer
Digital wealth onboarding platform
Highlands School ERP and learning platform

Build a Custom Enterprise Application or Buy a Suite

A custom enterprise application is built for one organization and its exact operations, instead of licensing a generic suite and bending the business around it. It is not always the right answer, and a partner who says otherwise is selling. This is the decision pattern we walk enterprise teams through.

Choose an Off the Shelf Suite When

A mature suite already fits the workflow

If an established product covers 80% or more of what a function does and setup is mostly configuration, buying is faster and cheaper than building.

The function is commodity

Email, accounting, HR, and payroll are solved problems. Custom software here adds maintenance cost without adding advantage.

You need it running this quarter

A suite can be configured quickly. Custom enterprise software ships in months, so urgent commodity gaps are better filled with an existing product.

The process is standardized and stable

Workflows that rarely change do not need a roadmap you control. Configuration beats code when nothing moves.

Built AI Native

Build a Custom Enterprise Application When

The workflow is your competitive edge

When the process IS the business, a generic suite flattens the advantage. Custom software encodes exactly how the organization wins.

Licence fees scale painfully with seats or volume

Per seat pricing that grows with headcount often crosses the cost of owning the software outright within two to three years.

Disconnected systems force costly workarounds

Spreadsheet bridges, manual rekeying, and fragile point integrations cost real hours every week. Custom software removes the workaround instead of managing it.

You need to own the data model and roadmap

Your data, your priorities, your release schedule, with the security and audit posture your industry requires. No waiting on a feature request queue you do not control.

AI native delivery has changed the math

Roughly 80% of our production code is AI generated and engineer reviewed, verified by our internal team, so custom enterprise software now arrives on timelines that used to mean buying a suite.

What We Build

Custom Enterprise Platforms & SaaS

Multi role platforms, customer portals, marketplaces, and subscription products, built on Java Spring Boot, Node.js, Python, React, and Next.js and designed to scale from first launch to thousands of users.

System Integration & Middleware

Integration layers that connect ERPs, CRMs, e-commerce systems, payment gateways, and BI tools, so information flows between the systems you already run without manual rekeying.

Legacy Modernization & Takeover

Audits, stabilization, test coverage, and incremental modernization of systems other teams built. You learn the real state of the codebase and the data before committing to a roadmap.

Data Platforms & BI Dashboards

Unified data models, reporting pipelines, and role based dashboards that replace spreadsheet sprawl with one trusted source for sales, finance, and operations.

AI Powered Enterprise Software & Agents

RAG search over company data, document automation, and autonomous agents embedded in real workflows, with the guardrails and evaluation infrastructure production AI needs.

Security, Compliance & Access Control

Role based access control, encryption, and per record audit trails, delivered under an ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified ISMS and aligned with GDPR, in cloud accounts you own.

Technology We Work With

Backend
Frontend
Rapid Back-end
Databases
Cloud & Deployment
AI Development Tool

Enterprise Applications We Have Shipped

Manufacturing🇮🇳 India

Replaced three fragmented systems with one sales and finance platform for a diversified manufacturer

Unified sales, accounting, and inventory that ran across three separate systems
Distributor self service portal replacing order coordination by phone and email
Automated reconciliation across diverse product lines
Role based dashboards for sales, finance, and operations teams

Unified

Sales, finance and inventory

30%

Fewer reconciliation errors

Self-service

Distributor ordering

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Manufacturing sales and finance platform
Manufacturing sales and finance platform
Manufacturing sales and finance platform
Fintech / Wealth Management🇮🇳 India

Built a digital wealth onboarding platform for high-net-worth clients

Guided onboarding across identity, document collection, KYC and portfolio
Validated document upload removes back-office friction
End-to-end KYC with a per-record audit trail
Back-office dashboards for relationship managers and compliance

Days to hours

Onboarding time

End to end

KYC digitised

Audit-ready

Per record trail

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Digital wealth onboarding platform
Digital wealth onboarding platform
Digital wealth onboarding platform
Education / School ERP🇺🇸 USA

Built a unified School ERP and learning platform serving 15,000+ students at one of the largest charter schools in California

Replaced fragmented tools with one web and mobile platform for students, teachers, and administrators with role based access
Brain AI, a retrieval augmented system grounded in the school curriculum, for content recommendations and adaptive learning
Two way translation for multilingual classrooms at 97 percent accuracy
Real time progress tracking and automated grading across the school

15,000+

Students served

97%

Translation accuracy

50%

Faster content turnaround

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Highlands unified school platform
Highlands unified school platform
Highlands unified school platform

Tell us the operation. We will tell you honestly whether to build it.

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PRICING

Transparent pricing, published

$50,000 to $150,000

mid sized platforms

$150,000 to $300,000+

enterprise systems

Published estimate ranges at a blended rate of $25 to $49 per hour. Every project is scoped individually before any number becomes a quote.

See the software cost guide + calculator

Enterprise Application Development FAQs

Enterprise application development is the design, engineering, and maintenance of software built for the operations of a growing company or large organization: multi role platforms, internal business systems, integrations between existing tools, and AI powered workflows. Unlike a single team app, an enterprise application has to handle many concurrent users, connect to systems like ERPs and CRMs, enforce role based access and audit trails, and stay maintainable for years. We cover the full cycle: discovery, UX, architecture, engineering, QA, deployment, and ongoing support.

At our published estimate ranges, a mid sized multi role platform costs $50,000 to $150,000, and enterprise systems cost $150,000 to $300,000 and up, at a blended rate of $25 to $49 per hour. US agencies typically quote 3 to 5 times more for identical scope. Cost is driven by the number of integrations, the depth of role based permissions, compliance review, and the volume of legacy data to migrate, more than by feature count. Our software cost guide breaks down the numbers and includes a calculator.

A mid sized platform takes 4 to 8 months and an enterprise system 8 to 18 months. Timeline is driven more by integrations, compliance review, data migration, and decision speed than by feature count. We ship working software in increments from the first weeks, with a staging environment you can click through every sprint, rather than a single delivery at the end.

Buy an off the shelf suite when a mature product already fits 80% or more of the workflow and that workflow is not where you compete. Build custom when the process IS the business, when per seat licence fees scale painfully with headcount, when the suite forces workarounds that cost real hours every week, or when you need to own the data model and the release schedule. Many enterprises run a hybrid: a suite for commodity functions, custom software for the core that differentiates them.

Through a dedicated integration and middleware layer. We connect ERPs, CRMs, e-commerce systems, payment gateways, and BI tools over their APIs or event streams, so data flows between the systems you already run without manual rekeying. Where a system has no clean API, we build adapters and reconciliation jobs. The goal is one trusted data model across the business instead of spreadsheets bridging the gaps.

Security is built in, not added later. We operate an ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified Information Security Management System and align our handling of personal data with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Enterprise builds include role based access control, encryption in transit and at rest, per record audit trails, and security review as part of the build. We run everything in cloud accounts you own and control, and hand over full source and documentation.

Yes. A large share of our work is inheriting systems other teams built: stabilizing them, adding test coverage, untangling legacy integrations, and modernizing incrementally rather than risking a single big rewrite. We start with a technical audit so you know the real state of the codebase and the data before committing to a roadmap.

Java Spring Boot, Node.js, Python, React, Next.js, and TypeScript on the application side; PostgreSQL and Redis for data; AWS and Google Cloud for infrastructure, with Docker and Kubernetes where the scale calls for it; and AI integration with Claude, GPT, and Gemini where it earns its place. For data heavy products we also build on Xano as an Enterprise tier partner, which can cut backend cost and timeline meaningfully.

We are an AI native team: roughly 80% of our production code is AI generated and engineer reviewed, verified by our internal team. That changes the economics of enterprise software, delivering faster on the same quality bar while senior engineers focus on architecture, security, and review. We also build AI features into the applications themselves, from RAG search over company data to document automation and autonomous agents, with the guardrails and evaluation infrastructure production AI needs.

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