Power Apps Developer and Power Platform Consultants

A Power Apps developer designs and builds business apps on Microsoft Power Apps, inside your Microsoft 365 tenant: they model the data in Dataverse, SharePoint or SQL, build canvas or model-driven apps your team uses on a phone, tablet or in Teams, automate the approvals, documents and notifications with Power Automate, and package everything in solutions with security roles and data policies so it can move from test to production safely.

If your company already runs on Microsoft 365, the Power Platform is often the fastest way to replace spreadsheets, shared mailboxes and email chains with proper apps and automated processes: Power Apps for the screens, Power Automate for the workflows, Dataverse or SharePoint for the data, and Power BI for the reporting. Your staff sign in with the Microsoft accounts they already have, and the data stays in your tenant.

Building a first Power App is easy. What a Power Apps consultant adds is the part that decides whether it survives real use: a data model that does not fall over at row 501, queries written so they run on the server rather than on the phone, licences chosen before the build rather than discovered after it, and flows that have an owner, error handling and a way to be deployed again. Greenwolf Tech Labs is a small automation, analytics and AI consultancy working from India and the USA. We build on Power Apps, Power Automate and Dataverse, and on Google AppSheet, Apps Script, n8n and custom code, so we can tell you honestly which one fits.

We only list work that is published on this site. The clearest Power Apps example is a supplier intelligence tool we built for a European procurement firm that sources suppliers for nuclear power infrastructure. Their supplier details were spread across many Excel files, and every evaluation meant searching through them and researching each supplier again.

We built a Power Apps tool around their sourcing workflow: one central supplier database with names, products, regions, contacts and capabilities; filters and search by project type, location, category or supplier name; a side-by-side comparison screen for several suppliers at once; a profile per supplier with website links and past project records; and access on desktop and mobile for site visits and client meetings. The procurement and vendor management case study reports report preparation falling from 4 to 5 hours to under 15 minutes, and about 30 hours a month saved on manual research and reporting.

The other kinds of Power Apps work we take on follow the same pattern: a process that already exists in spreadsheets, a SharePoint list or email, turned into an app with a proper data model, roles and automated follow-ups. Typical examples are equipment and asset registers, site inspection apps, purchase request and approval apps, onboarding checklists for HR, and project or task trackers that feed a Power BI report.

An app built in the default environment by one person, with data shared to everyone, works until it does not. These are the controls we set up on every build:

• Environments. Separate development, test and production environments, so changes are tried before your team sees them.
• Solutions. Apps, flows, tables and connection references are packaged in solutions, which Microsoft describes as the mechanism for moving components between environments. Every environment in that process needs a Dataverse database. Deployments then go through pipelines in Power Platform or a DevOps pipeline rather than being rebuilt by hand.
• Security roles. In Dataverse, roles decide which tables and rows each person can read, create, change or delete. On SharePoint we use permissions and filtered views, and we tell you where that is weaker.
• Data policies (DLP). Tenant or environment rules that control which connectors can be used together, so business data cannot be sent to a personal service by a flow. When a policy changes, apps and flows that break it are suspended; Microsoft says enforcement usually takes under an hour and up to 24 hours.
• Managed Environments. A set of premium admin features that includes limits on sharing, weekly usage insights, pipelines, solution checker, IP firewall and customer managed keys. Microsoft includes Managed Environments as an entitlement with standalone Power Apps and Power Automate licences.

One change matters now: Microsoft has deprecated unmanaged developer environments, including the ones created by the free Developer Plan. To keep an existing developer environment, Managed Environments must be turned on before December 15, 2026. If your team has been building in developer environments, we can move that work into solutions in a proper environment first.

Both are low-code app builders from the two big office suites. The honest rule: pick the one that matches the suite you already pay for. This uses each vendor's published information as of October 2026.

Our AppSheet developer page covers the Google side in the same detail, and the AppSheet pricing guide works through licence costs for different team sizes.

There are two costs: Microsoft's licences and the build.

Microsoft licences, as listed by Microsoft in October 2026 (US dollars):

• Power Apps Premium: $20 per user per month, paid yearly, for unlimited apps and Power Pages for that user, premium and custom connectors, and Dataverse. A $12 version needs a minimum of 2,000 licences. Microsoft has announced that from January 1, 2027 these rise to $22 and $14 for new purchases and renewals; existing subscriptions keep their price until the end of their term.
• Pay-as-you-go: $10 per active user per app per month, billed through an Azure subscription, counting only people who open the app that month. This suits apps used by many people occasionally.
• Power Apps per app plan: no longer sold to new customers through some channels since January 2, 2026. Microsoft says existing Enterprise Agreement customers and Cloud Solution Provider customers are not affected.
• Power Automate Premium: $15 per user per month, paid yearly, including premium connectors, attended desktop flows and process mining. Power Automate Process: $150 per bot per month for an unattended bot or a licensed cloud flow, and Hosted Process at $215 with a Microsoft-hosted machine. Pay-as-you-go flow runs are $0.60 for cloud and attended runs and $3.00 for unattended runs.
• Free for building: the Developer Plan is free for building and testing, not production. Flows with standard connectors run on the free Power Automate licence or Microsoft 365 rights.

Prices are from Microsoft's Power Apps pricing page, Power Automate pricing page and Microsoft Learn; your contract price can differ. A design on SharePoint with standard connectors can often run on the Microsoft 365 licences you already have, and we will show you the licence cost of each option before you choose.

The build depends mainly on the number of tables and roles, how many flows and integrations there are, whether data has to be migrated, and how much environment and ALM setup your IT team needs, not on the number of screens. As a guide to effort: a single app on SharePoint with a few approval flows is a matter of weeks; a Dataverse solution with several apps, security roles, integrations and deployment pipelines is a phased project over a few months; an audit and repair of an existing app is usually days. We give a written estimate for an agreed scope after the first call.