Canvas apps
Task-shaped tools with interfaces designed around the job — site inspections, quote builders, inventory counts — that work on phones, tablets, and desktops alike.
Power Apps consulting
Custom Power Apps that run your business workflows properly
The spreadsheet everyone edits, the paper form someone retypes, the process that lives in one person's head — we replace them with custom Power Apps for business workflows: canvas and model-driven apps on Dataverse, shipped through managed environments, for a fixed fee in a typical 2–4 weeks.
Representative dashboard — sample data
What we build
From fragile process to dependable app
Purpose-built tools, engineered like software rather than clicked together and abandoned.
Model-driven apps
Record-centric applications for case management, asset tracking, and staged approvals, with views, forms, and business process flows generated from your data model.
Dataverse foundations
Relational tables, row-level security, auditing, and business rules at the data layer — the difference between an app and a prettier spreadsheet.
Spreadsheet and paper retirement
We map the workflow as it truly runs — including the workarounds — then design the app so the old spreadsheet or carbon-copy form genuinely gets switched off.
Managed environments and ALM
Dev, test, and production environments with solution-based deployment, so releases are versioned and reversible instead of edited live in front of users.
Integration with what you run
Connectors to SQL Server, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, Teams, and hundreds of SaaS products — plus custom connectors when your system has an API and no connector.
How it works
Map it, build it, retire the old way
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Map the workflow
In a free consultation we walk the process end to end — who enters what, where it stalls, what the spreadsheet hides — then send a written scope with a fixed fee and delivery date.
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Build and iterate
The app takes shape in a development environment with your future users reviewing working screens early, so course corrections cost days rather than a rebuild.
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Deploy and retire
We promote through test to production via managed environments, train your users, decommission the old spreadsheet or form, and cover the first 30 days with hypercare.
What a Power Apps engagement delivers
Power Apps is Microsoft's low-code application platform, and Microsoft's Power Apps documentation (opens in new tab) is candid that low-code still rewards engineering discipline: data design, security roles, and release management determine whether an app survives its second year. Our engagements deliver exactly that — a working application in production, its Dataverse (or SharePoint) data layer, security roles mapped to your org, solution files under ALM, user training, and admin documentation. Where the data layer is the substantial part of the job — many related tables, row-level security by team or business unit, environments and solution promotion, capacity to size — it is scoped on its own as Microsoft Dataverse consulting services, and the app is built on top of it.
Timeline runs 2–4 weeks for most builds: mapping and data design in week one, iterative build with user review in the middle, deployment and cutover at the end. The fee is fixed in your written scope, and 30 days of hypercare follow go-live. If you are still assembling a budget, our guide to Power Apps development cost walks through the scope drivers behind a build quote, Microsoft's published licence rates, and what continues to cost money after launch.
Who should consider this
Strong candidates: operations teams tracking jobs in a shared workbook that breaks when two people edit it; HR or safety teams retyping paper forms; anyone running an approval chain through email forwarding. If the process matters enough to have a deadline but not enough to justify six-figure custom software, a Power App occupies exactly that middle ground. Another common starting point is a process that already runs in a per-seat work-management subscription: if you have decided to leave Smartsheet, our Smartsheet to Power Apps migration services cover that move sheet by sheet, with the automations and forms rebuilt rather than started from a blank canvas. A narrower case is the SharePoint form that stopped opening when Microsoft retired InfoPath Forms Services in July 2026: the list already exists, so our InfoPath to Power Apps migration services rebuild only the form, its rules and its routing rather than a whole application. At the other end of that range sits an app already built on a relational low-code database, where tables, relationships, roles and formula fields all have to be modelled in Dataverse before a screen is drawn — our Quickbase to Power Apps migration services cover that schema-first rebuild. One boundary is worth naming early: Power Apps is for your own licensed staff signing in with a work account. When the person who needs the screen is a customer, partner, or member of the public, the right platform is Power Pages instead — see our Power Pages development services for external portals secured with web roles and Dataverse table permissions.
Apps also multiply the value of neighboring investments. Approval logic and notifications typically ride on Power Automate approval workflows behind the app, the documents an app produces are best filed into a well-structured SharePoint document management setup, and once clean data accumulates in Dataverse, a fixed-fee Power BI dashboard turns it into reporting leadership actually reads. Once several apps and their supporting flows have accumulated across a tenant, the follow-on question is administrative rather than technical — which environment each app belongs in, which connectors makers may combine, and who owns the ones whose author has left — and that is scoped separately as our Power Platform governance consulting services.
Where the app gets opened matters as much as what it does. If your staff spend the day in Microsoft Teams, the app can be delivered there rather than behind a browser bookmark — pinned as a channel tab or a personal app in the Teams app bar, with approvals arriving as cards in the conversation. That packaging and the tenant policy work behind it is scoped as our Microsoft Teams app development services, and it is commonly bought alongside this engagement in one written price.
Some industries push the requirements far enough that we scope them differently. Contractors are the clearest example: crews work in basements and rural lots where an app that needs a connection to open a form is an app that goes back to paper by week two. If that is your situation, our page for a Power Apps consultant for construction companies covers the offline-capable field builds — daily logs, punch lists, safety inspections, equipment and field tickets — in the detail that job sites require.
Power Apps versus off-the-shelf software
Buying a packaged product is sometimes the right call — this table is the honest comparison we walk through during scoping.
| Consideration | Custom Power App | Off-the-shelf software |
|---|---|---|
| Fit to your workflow | Built around your process, including the quirks that make it yours | You adapt your process to the vendor's model, or pay for customization |
| Cost shape | One fixed build fee plus Power Platform licensing you may already own | Per-user subscription forever, often with tiered feature gating |
| Microsoft 365 integration | Native to Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and your existing tenant security | Varies; usually connectors or middleware with separate admin overhead |
| Data ownership | Your data stays in your tenant, in tables you control and can query | Data lives in the vendor's cloud; export quality varies at exit |
| Change over time | Extend screens, rules, and integrations as the process evolves | Wait on the vendor roadmap or file feature requests |
| When it wins | Workflow is specific to you and spans your Microsoft estate | Problem is generic and a mature product nails it out of the box |
Related services
Complete the workflow
Power Automate Consulting
Approval chains, notifications, and document generation that run behind your apps without human forwarding.
SharePoint Consulting
Intranets and document libraries that store what your apps produce, with permissions that hold up.
Power BI Dashboards
Semantic models and governed reports built on the clean data your new app finally captures.
FAQ
Power Apps questions, answered
Canvas apps give you pixel-level control and shine for focused, task-shaped tools like inspections or field capture. Model-driven apps generate their interface from Dataverse tables and suit record-heavy processes with stages and roles, like case or asset management. We recommend one during scoping and explain the reasoning in writing.
SharePoint lists work for small, simple apps and keep licensing cheap. Dataverse earns its cost when you need relational data, row-level security, audit trails, or business rules enforced at the data layer. We match the backend to the workflow and your license position, not to a default preference.
Every build is a fixed-fee project priced after a free consultation, based on screens, data structures, integrations, and security requirements. You get one written number and a delivery date before work starts. Typical builds run two to four weeks, and 30 days of post-launch hypercare are always included.
Managed environments are Microsoft's governance layer for the Power Platform: separate development, test, and production spaces with controlled solution deployment between them. Without that structure, edits happen live against the app people are using. We set up the pipeline so releases are versioned, testable, and reversible.
Usually, yes. Power Apps ships with hundreds of connectors covering SQL Server, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, Outlook, Teams, and common SaaS products, and custom connectors reach REST APIs beyond that. During scoping we verify each connection and its licensing impact, so integration surprises do not appear mid-build.
Book a free consultation
Get more from the Microsoft tools you already pay for
Tell us what you’re trying to fix — a report, an approval process, an intranet, a Copilot rollout. We scope it as a fixed-fee project, you approve, and a senior engineer delivers in 2–4 weeks.
- Fixed-fee scope agreed before any work starts
- Senior, US-based Microsoft engineers — no handoffs
- Typical 2–4 week delivery
- 30 days of post-delivery hypercare included
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