An engineering team based in Bordeaux
Reflekt Lab has been an engineering-led software company in Bordeaux since 2022. We build custom business applications: internal ERPs, CRMs, back-office tools, quotation and pricing platforms, and data migrations. The entire engineering team sits in Bordeaux. We also have a presence in Sydney, which serves our Australian clients.
We are not a staffing firm and we do not place developers by the day. We take projects on a fixed scope or in short cycles, with a small team that actually writes the code — few projects at a time, one technical contact, and a clean handover at the end.
- In Bordeaux since
- 2022
- Where we work
- France, Australia, and remote
- Core stack
- Go, PostgreSQL, hosted in Europe
What being in one place actually changes
Distance is not a problem for writing code. It becomes one during the stage that decides the outcome: scoping. These are the three moments where sitting in the same room matters.
Scoping happens in front of the real users
Business software is designed by watching the people who will do the data entry, not by reading a summary of a meeting. Half a day on site at the start saves weeks of back-and-forth later, because you see the exceptions nobody thinks to mention.
Decisions get made in a room, not over email
What stretches a project is almost never the development — it is the business decisions nobody makes. When the meeting can happen at your office next week, those decisions land faster.
Data migration happens with your files open
The spreadsheets that run a company always carry unwritten conventions. Migrating them correctly means sitting down with the person who has maintained them for ten years.
That said, we work well remotely and many of our clients are nowhere near Bordeaux. Proximity helps at the start of a project; it is not a requirement.
The work we take on
We do not cover every industry. These are the ones where we have delivered real systems.
Wine and drinks trade
Multi-vintage pricing, product catalogues, allocations, wine lists. We have cleaned and restructured catalogues of tens of thousands of references, and replaced a 90-tab price book with a single web application.
Distribution and manufacturing
Complex quotations, price configurators, order tracking, document handling. Typically processes that live today in Excel and in two people's heads.
Professional and regulated services
Time tracking, invoicing, per-project profitability, compliance. Internal tools that have to be right the first time because they feed payroll or billing.
Extending an ERP you already run
When the ERP in place does 80 % of the job, we build the remaining 20 % around it rather than replacing everything. It is usually the cheapest and fastest answer.
Our work
Three public examples, with the technical detail and the numbers.
A quotation platform for a high-end surfaces brand
Casa Europa Inc. Quotation building, revisions, signatories, PDF and Excel export. The company's largest client engagement.
From a 90-tab pricing spreadsheet to one web app
A wine producer and merchant. One source of truth for prices, replacing a workbook nobody dared edit any more.
Our own CRM, running on 90+ MCP tools
We use what we sell. The CRM that runs the company is written by us, in Go and PostgreSQL.
We take part in the local tech scene too: Hugo Matthaey spoke on AI innovation at the Bernard Magrez Cultural Institute, and we presented our work at Start-up Day in Bordeaux.
What about budget?
Price ranges, timelines and method are set out in our guide, with real figures rather than "it depends". We do not repeat them here, so that two pages do not say the same thing.
Read the guide: custom software cost and stepsFind us in Bordeaux
Our office is at 9 rue André Darbon, 33300 Bordeaux, France. We are happy to host a first conversation, and we travel across the region for on-site scoping.
33300 Bordeaux
Bordeaux and Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the rest of France remotely, and Australia through our Sydney presence.
Frequently asked questions
Do you only work with companies in Bordeaux?
No. We are based in Bordeaux and travel easily across Nouvelle-Aquitaine, but many of our clients are elsewhere in France and abroad, including Australia. Proximity helps at the start of a project; it is not a condition for working together.
Can we meet in person before signing anything?
Yes, and we recommend it. The first conversation happens at your office or ours, with no commitment. It is also the best way to check whether custom software is actually the right answer for you, which is not always the case.
Are you an agency, a consultancy, or a software vendor?
None of those exactly. We do not place developers by the day like a staffing consultancy, we do not build marketing sites like a web agency, and we do not license a standard product like a vendor. We build specific business applications on a fixed scope, and you keep the source code.
Who writes the code, and where?
Our own team, in Bordeaux. We do not subcontract development to outside suppliers. Hosting defaults to Europe, which matters for projects touching personal data.
Which industries do you know best?
Wine and the drinks trade first, with delivered projects on multi-vintage pricing, catalogues and product data migration. Then distribution, manufacturing and professional services, on quotations, order tracking and per-project profitability.
We already have a supplier, but the project is stuck. What now?
That is a common situation and it has its own answer here: an audit of the existing code, then a takeover if the code is salvageable. We do not rewrite from scratch on principle, because a rewrite throws away work you already paid for. The code takeover page covers the method.
Who owns the code you write?
You do. The source code is delivered to you and you can take it to another team at any time. We put that in writing in the contract, because ownership is the first thing that blocks a handover when a supplier relationship ends badly.
Building something in Bordeaux?
Tell us what you need in a few lines. The first conversation comes with no commitment.
