What we can build for you
You don't need a spec, a budget line, or the right vocabulary. Most of our work starts with a business owner describing something annoying: a report that takes all Friday, software that almost fits, a question nobody can answer without three spreadsheets. Here's the shape of what we do — if you recognize your problem in any of it, let's talk.
Automate the busywork
If someone in your business regularly retypes information from one place into another, that's a job for software — not a person.
- Reports that build themselves, on schedule, from your real data
- Invoices, orders, and paperwork that flow between systems automatically
- Email that sorts, routes, and drafts itself so the important things surface
- Scheduling, reminders, and follow-ups that don't depend on memory
Under the hood: the same cloud automation used by the biggest companies — right-sized, and priced for a small business.
Software built around your business
Off-the-shelf tools make you work their way. When the fit is bad enough, custom is cheaper than the workarounds.
- A CRM shaped around how you actually find and keep customers
- Internal tools that replace the giant spreadsheet everyone's afraid to touch
- Dashboards that answer your actual questions — sales this week, jobs behind schedule, who owes what
- Back-office systems that connect the front counter to the books
Under the hood: fifteen years of building systems that stay fast and dependable as they grow.
Put AI to work, safely
AI is genuinely useful for small businesses — and genuinely oversold. We do both halves of the job: building it well, and telling you honestly where it fits.
- Assistants that answer routine customer questions with your business's real information
- Document handling: summarize, extract, classify — contracts, applications, intake forms
- Drafting help for quotes, replies, and follow-ups your team reviews and sends
- A person stays in the loop wherever a mistake would matter
And when AI is the wrong tool — too unpredictable, too expensive, or just unnecessary — we'll say so and build the simpler thing instead.
Under the hood: John helped Fortune 500 companies ship some of their first in-house AI software, and contributed early to the open-source frameworks this field runs on.
Keep it running
Software isn't done when it launches. We stay around.
- Websites and web apps: built, hosted, and maintained
- Modernizing aging systems before they become emergencies
- Fixes, improvements, and "can it also do this?" — handled under a simple monthly retainer
- Plain-English documentation, so you're never hostage to the one person who knows how it works
Under the hood: cost-efficient cloud hosting — most small-business systems can run for tens of dollars a month, not thousands.
Not sure where your problem fits?
That's normal — most projects don't arrive with a label. Tell us what's going on and we'll help you figure out what it is, what it costs, and whether it's worth doing. The conversation is free, and "don't build anything" is an answer we're happy to give.