TechAppForce
Software product engineering platform
AI can write the code. Who builds the product around it?
TechAppForce gives SaaS companies and software agencies a reusable application foundation for data, screens, access, workflows, approvals, reporting and releases. Configure the common capabilities, extend with real code, and use AI to accelerate the work.
The problem
Writing code is getting cheaper. Building a mature product is not.
AI can produce a working demo in a day. The recurring work is still there: permissions, approvals, audit history, reports and releases. Then every customer asks for something different: a cost centre on every order, finance approval above 10,000, a spend report every Monday. Built the usual way, each request becomes another copy to maintain.
- Customer 1The standard product
- Customer 12Needs a cost centre on every order
- Customer 27Finance must approve anything over 10,000
- Customer 45Wants a spend report every Monday
- Customer 63Needs a screen only its team uses
- Customer 100Has its own sign-off rules
How It Works
One product, configured differently for each customer.
Configure the variations the platform supports as settings on the same product: fields, approvals and reports for each customer. When a requirement goes beyond settings, extend it with real code in C# or TypeScript.
Every product team rebuilds the same foundation.
- Authentication & users
- Multi-tenancy
- Roles & permissions
- Database APIs (CRUD)
- Screens & forms
- Audit & record lifecycles
- Approvals & workflows
- Notifications
- Reports
- Environments & releases
- Billing & subscriptions
Then, finally, your actual product.
- Data model
- Screens & UI
- Access & permissions
- Workflows & approvals
- Reports & automation
- Multi-tenancy & billing
One application model. One platform engine.
One product, set up for each customer.
- Customer A
- Custom fields
- Unique workflows
- Specific approvals
- Own screens
- Customer B
- Different processes
- Role-based access
- Custom reports
- Integrations
- Customer C
- Custom portal
- Customer-specific rules
- Own roles
- Own APIs
What you get
A reusable foundation for the work around your product.
The platform provides sign-in, approvals, reports and tenancy as reusable capabilities, so your team spends more of its effort on what makes your product different.
- Model your applicationDefine entities, fields, relationships, rules and lifecycles in configuration.
- Design powerful screensCreate lists, forms and layouts with a visual designer.
- Automate your processesWorkflows, approvals, notifications and scheduled jobs.
- Extend with real codeC# server rules, TypeScript screen extensions or your own front end, when configuration is not enough.
- Build faster with TAFITAFI is the AI assistant in TAF Studio. Describe the change, review the plan and confirm it.
Questions every SaaS team meets
The questions that start once version one works.
Each question below gets a plain answer: what the platform provides, and what your team still owns.
- Why does one approval change take a sprint?Lifecycles and multi-level approvals you configure.
- Why does every customer want a different screen?Layout rules and fields per customer, on one product.
- Will we have the logs when something breaks?Audit history and request tracing, and what is still yours.
- Will it handle a million users?The honest answer: we publish no figure, so test your workload.
- How do we know what changed before release?Compare environments and promote a reviewed release.
- See all twelve questionsRead them all
How change is managed
Inspect a change, validate it, then release it on purpose.
Development and QA are separate environments. Production promotion is a deliberate, separate step, and release rollback is on the roadmap.
- InspectOpen the same application model in the web app, TAF Studio or code, and see what a change touches.
- ValidateCheck scripts and configuration against the platform before anything is published.
- Review and releaseCompare environments, choose the changes, and promote a reviewed release.
Proof
A live app built on TechAppForce: Tech Health
One live app, with the numbers counted from its code.
- about55%less code than the original systemthe same screens, with the backend on the platform
- 81business entitiesconfigured, not coded
- 17lifecycles68 statuses, 78 transitions
- about11,000lines of data codewritten by the Tech Health team
Who it is for
Two equal paths: SaaS companies and software agencies.
One product for many customers, or a different product for each client. Business operations teams are a third path.
- SaaS companiesOne product for many customers, with each customer's variations configured.
- Software agenciesDeliver more of the client solution and rebuild less of the foundation.
- Business operationsReplace spreadsheets and email approvals with real apps.
- Not sure where you fit?Tell us what you are building
How to start
Start with a free trial, or talk to us first.
Create a sample app yourself, or contact us and we will talk through your product.
- Start a free trialCreate a sample app and see how it works.
- Talk to usBring a real process. We show how it would be built.
- Go live and growAdd customers, processes and products.