Custom software
The software your business actually runs on, at a price that stopped being fiction.
Custom business applications used to mean a year, a room full of developers, and a number that ended the conversation. That math changed. The same work now takes a small team a fraction of the time — and we price it that way.
What changed
Most of what made custom software expensive was never the clever part. It was the scaffolding: wiring forms to databases, writing the same CRUD screen for the ninth time, migrations, test coverage, documentation nobody read. That work is real, it has to be right, and it used to consume the majority of every budget.
AI does that class of work quickly and well now, under review by someone who knows what correct looks like. What it does not do is decide what to build, model your business properly, or recognise which convenient shortcut becomes a problem in eighteen months. That judgment is the job. It is why the team gets smaller instead of disappearing.
The practical result: work that needed six developers for most of a year is now two people for a few months.
What we build
Internal tools
The spreadsheet five people edit and nobody trusts, replaced with something that enforces its own rules.
Scheduling and dispatch
Jobs, crews, and calendars in one place, on a phone, in the field.
Customer portals
Let customers check status, pay, and upload documents without calling you.
Quoting and estimating
Your pricing logic, applied consistently, in a fraction of the time.
Inventory and orders
Stock that reconciles, and reorder points that fire on their own.
Integrations
Two systems that refuse to talk to each other, made to talk to each other.
How it works
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A conversation, not a discovery phase
We talk about what you do and where the process breaks. No invoice attached.
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A fixed scope and a fixed price
You get both in writing before anything starts. If we misjudge the estimate, that is our problem, not a change order.
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Something usable early
You are looking at working software within weeks, not reviewing mockups for a quarter.
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Yours at the end
The code is delivered to your repository under your ownership. Keep us for maintenance or don't.
Straight answers
- How can two people build what used to take a team?
- Most of a developer's day was never the interesting part — boilerplate, wiring, tests, migrations, documentation, the third CRUD screen that works exactly like the last two. AI handles that class of work well now, under review. What it doesn't do is decide what to build, model the domain correctly, or know which shortcut will hurt in eighteen months. That judgment is still the job, and it's why the team gets smaller rather than disappearing.
- Is it actually cheaper, or just faster?
- Both, because software is billed in people-hours. A build that needed six developers for nine months carried a payroll no small business could justify. The same scope with two people over three months is a different order of cost. We are passing that on rather than pocketing the difference, because a market of businesses that could never previously afford custom software is worth more to us than a higher margin on the few that could.
- What's the catch?
- It doesn't compress everything. Anything that depends on other people — regulatory review, a vendor's API access, your team deciding what they actually want — moves at the speed it always did. We are candid about which parts of a timeline are ours and which are yours.
- Who owns the code?
- You do, on delivery, in your own repository. We will host and maintain it if you want that; you are not required to use us to keep running it.
Tell us what your business does by hand that it shouldn't.
No obligation and no discovery invoice. If it isn't worth building, we'll say so — that answer is free too.
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