Intent: referrals meet mobile
Business referrals usually live in messages, calls and memory. Who introduced whom, on what terms, and whether it was ever settled tends to drift apart between the two parties. The point of disagreement is rarely the introduction itself; it is the absence of a shared record.
Apportia puts that record on the phone, where introductions happen. The product sits at one intersection: referrals crossed with mobile. An introducer logs a lead in the moment, and the company on the other side sees the same entry with the same agreed terms.
What we built: two roles, one shared record
The app has two roles. Independent introducers submit referral leads and follow their status. Companies receive those leads, track them through their pipeline and mark them as settled.
Commission terms are recorded for both sides at the point the referral is created, so each party reads from the same entry rather than from separate notes. Apportia records and tracks the terms two parties agree on. It is not legal advice and it is not a compliance product.
Approach: state that stays consistent across two parties
The core engineering problem is keeping one shared state correct across two roles that see different views of it. An introducer's submission and a company's pipeline update are two ends of the same record, so the data model is built around the referral as the single source of truth, with status and terms attached to it rather than duplicated per side.
We kept the first version deliberately narrow: submit, track, settle, with the terms attached. Small, frequent releases let us validate the flow with real introducers and companies before widening scope.
Where it stands
Apportia is in active development, built with Flutter for a single mobile codebase across iOS and Android. The product site is live at apportia.fr; the app itself is not yet released on the stores.
It is a first-party Kōten product, built in-house, not client work. Like the other products in the studio, it is how we keep our production practice current: a real codebase taken toward production, not a demo.
Stack
Apportia is built with Flutter so a single codebase serves iOS and Android from day one, which suits a small team shipping frequently to two roles at once. A referral is created and consumed on mobile, so a native-feeling client on both platforms matters more than a web-first build. Flutter's single rendering path keeps the introducer and company views consistent without maintaining two separate UIs, and lets the studio move fast on the submit, track and settle loop that is the core of the product.
- What does Apportia do?
- Apportia is a mobile app for business referrals. Independent introducers submit and track referral leads, and companies receive, track and settle them. The commission terms agreed between the two parties are recorded so each side holds the same record.
- Is Apportia legal or compliance software?
- No. Apportia records and tracks the terms two parties agree on for a referral. It is not legal advice and it is not a compliance or legal-framework product. It is a tool for keeping a shared, consistent record between an introducer and a company.
- Can I download Apportia yet?
- Not yet. Apportia is in active development and is not released on the stores. The product site is live at apportia.fr. It is built in-house by Kōten, the product studio of Altis Koten, as a first-party product rather than client work.
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