Custom software for businesses that outgrew the spreadsheet.
We design and build the systems a small business runs on: scheduling, billing, inventory, dashboards, customer portals. Scoped in two sessions, quoted at a fixed price, and live in about six weeks, in your repo, under your name.
What counts as custom software for a small business?
Any system where the workflow is yours alone: the thing spreadsheets, group texts, and half-fitting SaaS are currently holding together. For us that has meant a bidding scheduler that bills a tutoring company's entire month automatically, an inventory and invoicing platform behind an eight-figure equipment operator, and the CRM our own sales run on.
- Scheduling and booking systems with billing built in
- Inventory, invoicing, and operations platforms
- Customer portals and internal dashboards
- The one spreadsheet everyone is afraid to touch, made into software
When does custom beat off-the-shelf?
Buy the SaaS when a tool already fits how you work. Renting beats building for solved problems like email, accounting, and payroll. Custom wins when you are paying for five tools that half fit, re-keying the same data between them, or running the business on a spreadsheet only one person understands.
Ownership also changes the math. A subscription bill never stops. A built system is an asset: paid for once, shaped exactly to your operation, and worth something when you sell the business.
How long does a build take?
About six weeks from scope to production for a focused system. Two scoping sessions produce a written plan and a fixed price, a working prototype lands inside week two, and the build ships to your team by week six. The full process is on the home page.
What does custom software cost?
Market pricing is wide. Boutique builds for small businesses commonly land in the five figures, and agency platform work runs well into six. We scope first and quote a fixed price, so the number you get is the number you pay. No hourly meter, no surprise change orders.
Who owns the code?
You do. The repository, the domain, the data, and the deployment are yours from day one, and everything is built on boring, well-supported technology your next developer will recognize. Stay on retainer if you want a partner, or take the keys and go. Both are fine outcomes, and the systems we've shipped are the proof.
Tell us what the spreadsheet does. We'll build what it should be.
A thirty-minute call with the person who would build it. No pitch, no slide deck. We will tell you if we are not the right fit.