Where PHP / Laravel fits

PHP remains unbeatable for business web apps with rich forms, workflows, and admin roles — especially when you need to ship operational software quickly and iterate with real users (internal or external).

• Laravel + Vue/React — modular backends, queues, policies, and clear domain boundaries.
• CodeIgniter — leaner footprints where a smaller framework matches legacy or constrained hosting.
• Payments & CRM flows — secure checkout steps, reconciliation hooks, and operator tooling.

Greenfield vs maintaining Laravel apps

New products spend early budget on auth, roles, audit trails, and first integrations. Maintenance is usually predictable: monthly releases, security patches, Laravel upgrades, and feature slices — cost jumps when you refactor modules or replace a brittle integration.

Engineering Leadership & Quality Standards

Every PHP pod ships with peer review cycles, CI/CD enforcement, and senior architectural oversight as baseline — not optional add-ons. Seniors own architecture, database design, and security review; mids ship features; juniors work on CRUD slices, tests, and UI polish under guidance. Money-moving flows never run without senior sign-off.

Representative delivery (on-page)

Cost expectations

Software milestones are quoted after discovery — pricing. Dedicated pods use monthly GBP team economics under the Transparent 15% model — see role bands. PHP/Laravel products often have lower infrastructure burn than heavy native stacks, but domain complexity (payments, logistics rules) still drives engineering cost — we phase work to match risk.