Custom websites & web apps
The hard engineering is ours.
The easy ride is yours.
Tricycle is a web app kernel with a CMS inside. We build what you need but a template can’t - and we build it fast.
No template knows what your business actually needs.
It decided what you could build before it ever met you. So tell us the one thing yours has to do - the thing nothing off-the-shelf will - and we build around it.
It’s yours to run.
Once your site is live, keeping it moving doesn’t wait on us. We built it to be run by the people who use it, not guarded by the people who made it. Day to day, you’re in charge - we’re the call you make when something new needs building.
Grow without starting over.
What you build today is the foundation, not the ceiling. As the business gets bigger - or just stranger - you add to what’s already there, and the site grows with it. Same ground under your feet the whole way up.
Why not just use a builder?
Builders are great - until you need the one thing they don’t do. Then you’re stuck, because the wall was built in from the start. Going fully custom gets you past it, but slowly, and the bill shows it. So the usual choice is fast-but-limited, or capable-but-slow.
You don’t have to choose.
Off-the-shelf can’t. From-scratch won’t. We fit, fast.
One system. Very different jobs.
Four real client sites, in daily use - a manufacturer, a retailer, a community, a data tool.
A generator retailer
since 2014
A residents’ voting portal
since 2018
A self-service reporting workspace
since 2020What do these have in common? Nothing you can see. Everything underneath.
How a project goes
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We talk.
You tell us the one thing your site has to do that nothing off-the-shelf will. We ask questions until we’ve got it.
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We model it.
That one thing becomes a structure - the shape of your whole site, settled before a line of it is built.
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We build on the kernel.
The plumbing every site needs is already done, so we spend the time on what makes yours yours. That’s why it goes fast.
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You run it.
Once it’s live, the day-to-day is yours. We’re here for the next big thing.
Under the hood
A kernel you build on, not a platform you configure. Your whole site is one tree of typed nodes, and that single model drives routing, navigation, permissions and behavior. That’s why a site can grow by adding to what’s already there, and why it keeps its shape as it gets bigger.
Proven where it counts
Tricycle has run real client sites since 2013 - catalogs, portals, reporting tools - in daily use. The ground under you has already been tested.
Got something the template can’t do?
That’s our favorite kind of project.
Got it.
Your message went straight to the person who’ll build it. We’ll get back to you.
Tell us what it has to do, and we’ll tell you plainly if it’s a fit. Either way, your message goes straight to the one person who’ll actually build it.