What kind of software do you build?

Online stores with local payments, internal systems — inventory, invoicing, operations —, web and mobile platforms, and integrations between the systems you already use.

How much does custom software cost?

It depends on the scope. After a first meeting you get a proposal with phases and deliverables, so the cost is clear before the first line of code is written.

Do you use templates or build from scratch?

We build custom on proven technology — Next.js, Laravel, AWS. We don't resell templates: the system is designed around your operation, not the other way around.

What happens after launch?

We don't disappear. We offer support and continuous improvement: monitoring, backups and new features in phases. The software is yours; the ongoing partnership is our job.

Can you take over a system built by another vendor?

Yes. We start with a technical review of the code and infrastructure, tell you what shape it's in, and what makes sense: maintain it, improve it, or migrate it in phases.

Do you work with companies outside El Salvador?

Yes. We work remotely with clients abroad; meetings, development and support are all coordinated online.

Custom software development in El Salvador

AV-2020-004Software · Platform

Lector home: digital library with books recommended by grade

Lector: educational reading platform

Problem: In 2020 the pandemic left Salvadoran students out of their classrooms and families cutting costs — and GlobalBooks, an educational book distributor, watched its market fall from one year to the next. Their answer was an idea: "Why don't we build something like Netflix, but for books?" Digital access to school content, at a better price, aligned every year with the MINEDUCYT curriculum.
Build: We built Lector: a reading platform for students from 7th to 11th grade, launched on Laravel and deployed on AWS for the 2021 school year. It hasn't stopped growing since: a full redesign with a React frontend in 2023, and in 2025 Lector Infantil — its own brand, for 1st through 6th grade, on the same backend. Today the platform brings together books and audiobooks, a micro-LMS with tests, reading-speed assessments with age-appropriate parameters, assignments and announcements, and analytics for teachers, institutions and administrators.
Result: More than 6,000 active students across more than 25 institutions in the country read on Lector today. Five years of continuous development, a crisis launch turned into educational infrastructure — and one of several projects we keep building with GlobalBooks.

LARAVEL · REACT · AWS · EDTECH

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AV-2021-029Software · Research

A species catalog page in Padiush, with taxonomy and geographic distribution

Padiush: a platform for ethnobotany research

Problem: Ethnobotany research produces a kind of data that's hard to organize: what a person says about a plant — its local name, its uses — has to end up linked to the correct scientific species, without losing what was said in the field. Mercedes, an Avalon partner and biologist, lived this in her thesis: dozens of interviews and thousands of use reports being typed by hand into Excel, with hours of transcription and room for error in every row.
Build: We built Padiush, a web platform for ethnobotany research. It designs interview instruments, captures the responses, and — the part Excel doesn't do — reconciles each name reported in the field with its scientific taxon against authorities like World Flora Online and GBIF, always preserving the original name for traceability. From there it calculates the field's quantitative indices (use value, cultural importance, informant consensus factor, among others) and exports tables, charts and matrices ready for R. Laravel and React on the web; a field-capture app is in development.
Result: With Padiush, Mercedes processed her thesis data — 89 interviews and 2,457 use reports — and the platform was cited both in her thesis (2025) and in a peer-reviewed scientific article (2026). Together we presented Padiush at the VII Latin American Congress of Ethnobiology (SOLAE) in Tlaxcala, Mexico (2022), and facilitated a course at the VIII Congress, in Antigua Guatemala (2025). We saw the tool was useful beyond ourselves, and wanted to put it within reach of other researchers.

LARAVEL · REACT · RESEARCH · DATA

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