Close the books with confidence, not caffeine.
FINTECH | FINANCE OPERATIONS & REVENUE ASSURANCE
Evolved Ideas builds the bespoke software and extends the engineering teams that free your finance function from spreadsheets, manual reconciliation and revenue leakage, so your numbers are right the first time and you can get back to advising the business.
19+
years of experience in software delivery
ISO 27001 certified
100+
technology specialists across the UK, Spain and Ukraine
Time zones that overlap with yours
Trusted by FinTech and lending businesses
ONE PARTNER, THREE WAYS TO DELIVER
How we help your finance team
Three ways to work with us, whether you need a system built, a team extended or a delivery programme brought under control. Many finance teams start with one and grow into the others.
Software shaped around how your finance function actually works.
Off-the-shelf tools force your process to fit the product. We do it the other way round. We start by understanding the business problem (the “why”) before we design the “what”, then build a platform your team owns, on modern web, desktop or mobile technology.
The specialist engineers your finance systems need, without the hiring queue.
When your roadmap is bigger than your IT team, we add nearshore developers, QA specialists and business analysts who work as part of your team. We handle recruitment, HR, payroll and wellbeing, so you focus on the work. Prefer a fully managed option? Our Managed Teams bring developers, designers, scrum masters and even a fractional CTO, led by your product owner.
Support that keeps your finance systems stable, secure and evolving.
When finance platforms go down, month-end stops and controls slip. Our tiered Support as a Service gives you a dedicated team that knows your software: they monitor it proactively, fix issues fast, patch for security and keep improving it. You get stable systems and clean audits, with no in-house team to hire.
The impact isn’t only financial. It’s the weekends lost to month-end close, the confidence that disappears when a number is questioned in the boardroom, and the strategic work your team never gets to. It doesn’t have to be this way.
CASE STUDIES
Real finance and FinTech businesses, real platforms
Here’s how we’ve helped teams like yours replace friction with software that works.
SME Capital: a bespoke lending platform
We helped SME Capital streamline their loan application process through development of a bespoke platform.
“The team at Evolved Ideas are like part of the business. They understand what we do, and they understand what we need before we realise we need it!”
Kate Kennedy, COO, SME Capital
Hastee
How we built an award winning FinTech app that raised £275m.
Hastee with the help of Evolved Ideas, effectively created the Early Wage Access platform category in the UK and won the prestigious Mobile Project of the Year award, Disruptor of the Year and Personal Finance Tech of the Year at the Fintech Awards.
E-Bate
e-bate is the world’s first SaaS-based Rebate Management Platform that allows decision-makers to gain control of their rebate management quickly. Read how our team built and now maintain the platform.
“Most competing products take 18 to 24 months to implement, we can implement in less than 16 weeks thanks to our Extended Team with Evolved Ideas!”
Duncan Burns, Customer Success Manager, e-bate
CONFIDENCE BUILT INTO EVERY LAYER
Built for controls, compliance and audit
In finance, software isn’t just a productivity tool. It’s part of your control environment. We build with that
in mind, so your systems stand up to audit, board scrutiny and regulatory change.
Controls by design
Role-based access, segregation of duties, approval workflows and full audit
trails built in, not bolted on.
Data protection
Secure development practices aligned with UK GDPR and your own information security policies.
Regulatory awareness
Software designed to support your obligations, whether that’s financial
reporting, FCA-regulated activity, DORA operational resilience or PCI DSS where card data isinvolved.
Code quality you can rely on
Our Centre of Excellence applies codified best practice and automated quality checks (SonarQube, ESLint, Prettier) inside CI/CD pipelines.
Your data, your IP, your control
You own what we build, and we work within your environment and
security requirements.
Ongoing protection
Proactive patching and monitoring through our Support as a Service, so a live finance system never becomes an unmanaged one.
BUILT TOGETHER
How we work
We’re consultative, transparent and collaborative. We get under the skin of the problem before we write a line of code, and we build alongside your people, not behind a wall.
WHY CHOOSE US
Why Evolved Ideas
Finance leaders choose us because we take the time to understand their world and stay for the long-term partnership.
We start with the problem, not the technology
Our purpose-before-profit ethos means we recommend what’s right for your finance function, not what’s biggest.
A partner, not a supplier
We become an extension of your team, and clients tell us we understand what they need before they realise it themselves.
Quality you can audit
Our Centre of Excellence sets the standards for reliable, secure, future-proof software.
Enterprise-grade delivery at SME agility
Big enough to be secure, small enough to care.
Nearshore teams with stability
Delivery across the UK, Spain and Ukraine, with overlapping time zones and exceptional retention.
One partner across the lifecycle
Build, extend, manage and support, all in one relationship that flexes as your needs change.
THE OUTCOMES
What you gain
A faster, calmer month-end close
Fewer reconciliation breaks and less rework
Visibility of, and recovery of, margin leakage
Numbers you can defend to the board and to auditors
Finance experts freed for analysis, not data wrangling
A technology partner that scales with you
FAQs
Questions finance leaders ask us
Why build bespoke software rather than buy an off-the-shelf finance tool?
Off-the-shelf products suit standard processes. If your reconciliation rules, pricing structures, rebate agreements or reporting needs are specific to your business, a bespoke platform removes the workarounds and spreadsheets that packaged tools leave behind, and it evolves with you.
Can you integrate with our existing ERP, billing and CRM systems?
Yes. Most of our finance projects involve connecting existing systems through secure integrations, so data flows automatically instead of being rekeyed by hand. We’ll review your landscape during discovery.
How do you keep our financial data secure and our controls intact?
Security and controls are designed in from the start: role-based access, two-factor authentication, audit trails and secure development practices, with quality checks built into our delivery pipelines. We work within your security requirements.
How long does a finance software project take?
It depends on scope. Bespoke projects typically run from around three months to ongoing, and many begin with a proof of concept or MVP to prove value early. We’ll give you a clear plan after discovery.
What’s the difference between Extended Teams and Managed Teams?
With Extended Teams you add nearshore developers to your existing IT team and manage the day-to-day work, while we handle recruitment, HR and payroll. With Managed Teams we run a full team (developers, designers, scrum master, even a fractional CTO) and you provide a product owner.
Will we depend on you forever?
No. You own what we build. Many clients choose to stay with us for support and evolution, but that’s your decision, and our support and team models flex up or down as your needs change.
What happens after go-live?
Our Support as a Service provides tiered application support, from customer queries to bug fixes, security patching and new features, backed by QA engineers, analysts, designers and DevOps, not just a developer on standby.