Custom apps & tools
Software built around the way you actually work: business apps, connecting the systems you already use, and turning your data into something useful.
Hanmer Springs · Christchurch, New Zealand
Big ideas. Deep roots.
Custom apps, websites and AI helpers for people with ideas.
Services
What we can do for you
Websites that work for you
Designed around your personality, bringing your ideas to life, with bookings, shops or schedules where you need them.
AI helpers
From little bots that do the boring stuff to helpers that crunch the numbers. AI is here, so use it. More on AI
About
An independent studio, built on experience
Tree Whales is an independent software studio based in Hanmer Springs and Christchurch. Behind it is over 20 years of building enterprise software for large businesses in New Zealand, the UK and Ireland. Now that experience is being brought home, for local people and businesses with ideas.
- Experience
- 20+ years in software
- Background
- Enterprise systems
- Now
- Apps, websites and AI helpers
- Based
- Hanmer Springs & Christchurch
How we work
Plain, step by step
Listen
We talk through what you need and what is getting in the way.
Build
We design and build it in small steps you can see and try.
Look after
We keep it running and make changes when you need them.
Work
Our work, shown honestly
From the pod
YogaWithJane
A website for a Hanmer Springs yoga teacher, with a phone admin app and Ink Yogi, a helper that answers questions from Jane’s class information.
See this project YogaWithJane
From the pod
Through the Curious Frame
A website for Stephanie, a photographer in Hanmer Springs: a photo archive, print shop and sitting bookings.
See this project Through the Curious FrameExperience
Systems we’ve built before
Most of our experience is in business systems that people rely on every day: on the factory floor, in the cellar and in the office. These are past projects, and we describe them here to show the kind of work we know.
Winery Enterprise Solution
An enterprise system for a multi-site wine business: contracts, inventory, grape yield forecasting, supply and demand planning and production across several sites.
Client web app
A secure web app where clients see their own results, records and reports, and send messages to the business.
Mobile apps for cellar, barrel and audit work
Handheld apps for cellar and barrel staff, and mobile audit apps.
Business systems for food processing
Manufacturing and enterprise management software for a major New Zealand food processor.
Contract work in the UK and Ireland
Earlier software projects for insurance, healthcare and finance businesses.
Booking System
Appointment bookings with automatic text reminders and test results for patients.
Contact
Let’s talk about what you’re building
Email us at hello@treewhales.co.nz, or drop us a note here.
Hanmer Springs · Christchurch, New Zealand