About
A small company that writes things down.
Codic Systems (SMC-Private) Limited is a software development company based in Islamabad, Pakistan. We build the systems businesses are organised around — booking and reservation platforms, operations and back-office software, internal tools and AI agents — for clients in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Gulf and North America.
The company
Why we are openly in Islamabad.
A lot of offshore development companies present themselves as being somewhere they are not — a London accommodation address, a US phone number, a website that never says where the engineers sit. Every buyer works it out within one call, and it reads as evasive at exactly the moment you want to be trusted.
So: we are in Islamabad, Pakistan. Here is the company number, here is the tax number, here is the register entry you can check. Our rate is a fraction of a comparable UK agency's and the engineering is not a fraction of anything. Saying that plainly has cost us nothing and it starts the relationship in the right place.
Codic Systems was incorporated on 27 August 2026 as a single member company limited by shares. Before that, the same person was doing the same work as a freelancer — some of the case studies on this site are from that period, and they say so.
What we mean by "built to stand"
Most software does not fail at launch. It fails in year three, when the third change collides with an assumption nobody wrote down and the developer who understood it has left. Everything about how we work is aimed at that specific failure: assumptions documented, behaviour tested, a handover pack that lets any competent developer take over in a week.
It is an unglamorous promise. It is also the one most offshore vendors cannot credibly make, which is why we lead with it instead of with speed or price.
The person you will work with
Lal Chand
Founder and Chief Executive Officer · Sole director and shareholder
I build software for travel companies.
Most of it is unglamorous and important — the booking flow that has to work at 2am, the operations system the whole office lives in, the integration between a supplier's API and a reservation platform that nobody wants to touch because it was written by someone who left.
I also run a UK travel company, which is where the sector knowledge comes from. I have been the person whose business depends on the booking system working, and I know exactly which parts of these systems get built badly, because I have had to work around them.
I would rather build something you could hand to another developer tomorrow than something only I can support. That is a commercially stupid position for a vendor to take and it is the reason clients stay.
How we work
Six rules we do not bend.
These exist because each one was learned the expensive way, either by us or by a client who arrived after somebody else ignored them.
Nothing starts without a written scope
Including an explicit list of what is not in the project. The absence of a scope is the presence of a future dispute, and it is always the client who pays for it in delay.
We ship weekly, visibly
You see the actual thing every week, not a percentage. If we are behind, you find out in week three rather than the week before launch.
We never build something only we can support
If a competent developer could not take over from the handover pack, the project is not finished. This is written into how we scope, not added at the end.
We do not criticise the previous developer
Almost every system that looks bad was built under a deadline that made it inevitable. We describe what would change and what it costs. That is more useful and it is a better way to work.
We say no to some projects
Equity-only. Anything requiring an on-site presence. Anyone who will not sign a scope. And work we are not the right people for, which we will say plainly rather than take.
Everything is invoiced through the company
Contracts in the company name, payment into the company account, proper invoices with the CUIN on them. It matters for compliance and it is what a serious client expects.
Company record
Everything a buyer's due diligence will ask for.
Published here so you do not have to request it. If your procurement process needs anything further — a certificate copy, bank details on letterhead, a signed NDA — email hello@codicsystems.com.
About the company
Who is behind Codic Systems?
Lal Chand, founder and chief executive. He is the sole director and shareholder, and the engineer on client projects. He also runs a UK travel company, which is where the sector knowledge comes from.
Is Codic Systems a registered company?
Yes. Codic Systems (SMC-Private) Limited is a single member company limited by shares, incorporated under the Companies Act 2017 on 27 August 2026, CUIN 0352637, registered in Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan. The registration can be checked directly on the SECP register. Our FBR National Tax Number is J778998.
How large is the team?
One engineer at present, growing deliberately. We would rather tell you that plainly than describe ourselves as a team of fifty and hand your project to a junior. It also means the person you speak to in the first call is the person who writes the code.
What are your working hours relative to my time zone?
We work Monday to Friday, 09:00–18:00 PKT (UTC+5). That overlaps most of the UK and European working day and almost all of the Gulf. For North American clients we schedule calls in our evening.
Start a conversation
Tell us what the system has to do.
Describe the problem in a paragraph and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it — and roughly what it costs before you spend anything.