The Superhero platform
What this business runs on: the client portal with passwordless sign-in, the request queue, documents and invoices, checkout, and the contact forms on the sites we look after.
- Runs on
- Cloudflare Workers
- D1
- R2
- Stripe
Superhero LabsCustom web apps,
Custom web apps,
built and kept running.
If it runs in a browser, Labs can build it: customer portals, booking systems, internal tools, dashboards, and AI that works from your own data. The same Ecropolis team that builds our own products scopes yours, quotes it before you commit, and looks after it once it's live.
- Scoped and quoted before you commit
- Expert-led. AI-assisted.
- Looked after once it's live
What Labs builds
For when a website isn't enough
Most businesses come to us for a website. Some need the thing behind it: the booking flow, the members area, the tool the whole team runs on. These are the kinds we build most, and where we have built them before.
Customer portals and members areas
Sign-in without passwords to forget, and documents, invoices and requests in one place your customers can find again.
Built here: Superhero platform
Booking, vendors and payments
Applications, schedules, bookings, deposits and payouts for markets, venues and service businesses.
Built here: VendorStreet
Internal tools and operations systems
Request queues, approvals, inventory, production and compliance records: the tools your team uses all day, in place of a shared spreadsheet.
Built here: GrowGrid, ControlPlane
Dashboards and monitoring
One screen for the numbers or the systems you're responsible for, with whatever needs a person flagged before it becomes a problem.
Built here: StackHound, ControlPlane
Integrations with the tools you already use
Stripe checkout and subscriptions, email and SMS, forms and calendars, connected so nobody copies data between systems by hand.
Built here: Superhero platform, Compass
AI that works from your own data
Drafting, sorting and summarizing with the reasoning shown and a person approving, not a chatbot bolted onto your homepage.
Built here: Compass
Built here first
Where we build the next generation of our own software
Each of these started as a problem we watched businesses pay for too often, and each was built by the team that would build yours. Every one has a site you can visit today.
Compass
Know your customers. Act on insight.
Customer profiles, audiences, and email and SMS campaigns, with AI that drafts from your own data and shows its reasoning.
- Runs on
- Cloudflare Workers
- Hono
- D1
- Queues
VendorStreet
Markets. Venues. Experiences.
One platform for markets and venues to manage vendors, bookings, payments and reviews.
- Runs on
- Cloudflare Workers
- React
- D1
- R2
- Stripe
GrowGrid
Cultivation through finished goods.
Farm and product manufacturing management: inventory, production, compliance and analytics, end to end.
- Runs on
- Cloudflare Workers
- Hono
- D1
- React
StackHound
Security signals for the stack you actually run.
Daily security monitoring for the websites and servers you're responsible for, with every finding kept as a dated record.
- Runs on
- Cloudflare Workers
- React
- D1
- Durable Objects
- R2
ControlPlane
Operate your infrastructure, not just monitor it.
The operations console we built for SCORE's chapter websites: per-node health, verified cache purges, and production actions that wait for an approval.
- Runs on
- React
- Node
- SQLite
How a Labs project works
Four steps, and you decide after the second
Tell us the problem
Not a feature list: what is slow, manual or impossible today, and who it's for. A form, an email or a call all work.
We scope it and quote it
In writing: what it will do, what it won't, and what it costs, before you commit to anything. If a smaller tool would do the job, this is where we say so.
We build it in stages you can use
Working software on a private review link from early on, not screenshots, so you see it take shape and can change course while that is still cheap.
Launch, then we look after it
Hosting, monitoring, fixes and the next round of changes. It is the part a lot of custom software is missing.
Being straight with you
Not every idea needs custom software
A lot of what sounds like an app is a fast website with the right tool connected: online booking, deposits, a newsletter, an events calendar. Those come with a Superhero plan or as an add-on, cost far less than a build, and go live in days.See what a plan already does.
And when it is bigger than a small business — a national platform, an enterprise system — that work is on ecropolis.com. Same team either way.
Tell us what you're trying to build
A few sentences is plenty. We'll come back with a straight answer, including when the answer is a smaller tool.