For businesses tired of renting software

Software you own, built by someone who ran the numbers.

No license fees, no yearly increases, and a finance person behind every build. Websites, internal tools, automation and whole back-office systems for businesses with 10 to 250 employees. If it runs on software, ask us.

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Different businesses, same approach: find the cheaper, smarter way to run the work, then build the software that makes it possible.

Full-stack software

The Sentinel Application: 12 hours a day back for property coordinators

A Cleveland property manager

Four coordinators each spent 4 to 5 hours a day researching tenants across five systems and about six spreadsheets. We built the Sentinel Application to bring it all into one system, refreshed every hour, with every number showing where it came from. That frees up about 12 hours of coordinator time every day for other work.

12 hrs a dayof coordinator time freed up

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Prop manufacturing

A $100,000 cheaper way to carve life-size props

Immersive Adventure Holdings

Instead of a 5-axis CNC carving each prop from one solid block of foam, we paired a 3-axis machine with custom software that cuts the 3D model into 2-inch slabs. The machine cuts each slab flat and the team glues them together.

$100K+less spent on machinery

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0 of 42 slabs2 in each, 84 in tallCut as 42 flat slabs

The 3D view could not load on this device. It shows a 7-foot statue cut as 42 two-inch slabs on a 3-axis CNC, then glued together.

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One game master instead of three

Rooms of Adventure

Their website, a booking platform, a waiver and compliance form system, and a custom game master app that lets one person run every room at once. A one-time build, projected to save more than $80,000 a year.

$80K+projected yearly savings

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What we build

Websites, internal tools, dashboards and automation, built for the way your business runs. One person builds all of it, so the pieces work together.

Websites and web apps

Fast, findable websites, and web apps your customers and staff log into.

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Automation

Reports, invoices and hand-offs that run on their own.

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Finance and reporting

Dashboards, forecasts and closes built by someone who has run FP&A.

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Operations

Schedules, inventory and job tracking in one place.

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Engineering and projects

Timelines, job costing and RFIs for engineering and construction firms.

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Why work with us

Most developers learn your business as they go. We start from the numbers.

Finance-grade thinking

Every number is defined the way a controller would define it, with checks that catch mistakes before you see them. Our founder spent years in equity research and FP&A before writing software.

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Any system, one shop

The website, the internal tools and the automation between them, built by the same people so they fit together. If it has an API, we can connect it.

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Live in weeks, not quarters

You see working software every week, and most systems launch in 6 to 12 weeks. After launch, a care plan keeps it running and improving.

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Works with the tools you already use

If your software has an API, a door other software can use to read and send data, we can connect to it. That includes the Microsoft and Google tools most businesses already run on. If a tool has no API, we will tell you on the first call, before you spend anything.

Microsoft

  • Excel
  • SharePoint
  • Outlook
  • Teams
  • Power BI
  • Dynamics 365
  • SQL Server

Google

  • Sheets
  • Drive
  • Gmail
  • Calendar
  • BigQuery
  • Looker Studio

Accounting and payments

  • QuickBooks Online
  • Xero
  • NetSuite
  • Sage Intacct
  • Stripe
  • Square

Operations and property

  • Buildium
  • Monday.com
  • Procore
  • Jobber
  • Airtable
  • Asana

Sales and customers

  • HubSpot
  • Salesforce
  • Shopify
  • Calendly
  • Mailchimp
  • Slack

Not on the list? Most business software with an API can be connected. Ask on the call.

How a project works

Three stages. You pay for the hours each one takes, and you can stop after any of them.

  1. 1

    Discovery

    Billed hourly

    We sit with the people who do the work, map where the data lives and estimate the hours the build will take. If it is not worth building, we tell you.

    1 to 2 weeks

  2. 2

    Build

    Billed hourly

    We build in short rounds and show you working software every week. Websites usually take a few weeks.

    Most projects take 6 to 12 weeks

  3. 3

    Care plan

    Monthly support

    Hosting, backups, fixes and changes from Chris, who built your system, so it keeps up as your business changes. Cancel any time.

    Month to month

What is manual work costing you?

Move the sliders to match your business. It takes ten seconds and gives you a rough number to bring to a call.

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Staff time software could free up$0a year
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A rough estimate of staff time over 50 working weeks. It does not include the cost of the build, and it is not a guarantee of savings.

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Questions people ask

How much does custom software cost?

It depends on the hours of development your project needs. After the first call we estimate those hours, so you know what to expect before any work starts.

How long does it take?

A website usually takes a few weeks. Most custom systems take 6 to 12 weeks, and you see working software every week along the way.

Who owns the software?

You do. Your data and the software built for you belong to you. We host, manage and support it, so you never have to think about it. If you ever stop working with us, you get a full copy.

What happens if you are ever unavailable?

Your system keeps running on its own. It is hosted in accounts set up for your business, so nothing depends on us staying switched on, and your data stays yours. Care plan clients come first whenever something needs fixing. If we ever had to stop for good, you would keep everything and any care plan would simply end.

Do we have to replace the tools we use now?

Usually not. Most of what we build connects to the accounting, CRM, scheduling and spreadsheet tools you already have.

Do you use AI to build this?

Yes. We build with AI coding tools, which is why a system that took a team months now takes weeks. Every line is reviewed, tested and owned by a person who understands your numbers. More on the How we work page.

Is this about replacing staff with software?

No. We build to give people their time back. The draining work, like copying numbers between systems and rebuilding the same report, goes to the software. Your team keeps the work you hired them for, and gets hours back for the work that grows the business. Owners who want a smaller team are a poor fit for us.

What size of business do you work with?

Mostly businesses with 10 to 250 employees. That is where the right software saves the most time. If you are larger, we are still happy to talk and see whether it is a fit.

Do you build websites too?

Yes. We build business websites, online booking and customer portals, and set them up to show up in local Google searches.

Do you only work with Cleveland businesses?

We are based in Cleveland and happy to meet in person around Northeast Ohio, and we work with businesses anywhere in the US over video.

Tell us what slows your business down.

A 30-minute call, no slides. You will leave knowing whether the problem is worth solving, the likely first step, and what we need to estimate the hours.

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