Internal software shaped around how your business actually operates.
It works because one person maintains it by hand. That knowledge leaves when they do.
Four platforms, a fraction of each used, and everything still exported to a spreadsheet.
Intake, projects, contracts and invoices hold four separate records. Reconciling them is a role.
Agencies quote six figures for what is, in substance, a small number of screens over a well-designed schema.
Not a platform configured until it approximately fits. In practice the value concentrates in six areas.
A single entry point for every enquiry, job and referral, scored and assigned on arrival.
The status view currently rebuilt by hand, maintained continuously, with overdue work surfacing automatically.
Drafted from records already held, and released only after a named approver signs off.
Renewals, notice windows and certifications, with notice issued before each closes.
Sequentially numbered invoices raised from recorded work, with outstanding, overdue and paid in one view.
The month-end view presently assembled from several exports, built once and correct by construction.
Begin with the most costly area and extend from there.
Multiple parties, one shared record, and revenue that must reconcile.
| Business | What's usually broken | What we build |
|---|---|---|
Professional services
Agencies, consultancies, studios |
New business lives in a shared inbox. Nobody can state the status of everything without an hour of assembly. | Intake scoring, drafting behind an approval gate, a live board, a client portal. |
Property and real estate
Managers, landlords, brokerages |
Money-critical dates buried in PDFs nobody re-reads. No two people build the analysis the same way. | Extraction with citations, a critical-date calendar, defensible underwriting. |
Multi-location operators
Venues, clinics, gyms, franchises |
Each site keeps its own version of the truth. Head office reconciles by hand, monthly, always slightly wrong. | One shared record across sites. Revenue settles against what actually happened. |
Field and trade services
Contractors, installers, maintenance |
One spreadsheet, kept right by one person. Jobs finish and never get invoiced. | Dispatch, job records that carry through to the invoice, margin per job. |
Membership and events
Networks, associations, programmes |
Members re-enter the same details everywhere. The door enforces entitlements from memory. | One identity, one credential, verified anywhere, usage recorded live. |
If your sector is not listed, the question is not the industry but whether a repeated process is maintained by hand. See what we have built →
Most custom software fails on maintenance. These systems carry almost no dependencies.
Delivered and documented at handover. Continuing with us remains a choice, not a dependency.
Standard library and a single-file database. No build step and no upgrade cycle.
Small enough to run on an entry-level instance, typically under $20 per month.
Your database on your deployment, with authentication throughout and an attributed activity log.
Drafting and extraction operate on supplied records only. Gaps are flagged rather than inferred.
A working version in week two rather than a presentation. Everything after is correction against it.
No hourly billing. Every engagement begins with the same assessment and concludes with a fixed quote.
Introductory rates for our first five clients, in exchange for a case study and one introduction. For software already built that has become difficult to maintain, the Rescue is $2,500 over two weeks.
Thirty minutes, without a presentation, ending with a clear view of whether the work is warranted and what it costs.