Build model
Fixed scope
build and run
Custom software that replaces $2–5k/month in subscriptions
The 20% of features you use daily, none of the 80% you pay for and ignore — spec to working v1 in 4–8 weeks, on a stack any developer can maintain. You keep the source code, the data, and the roadmap.
Timeline
2–8 weeks
Runtime
Monitored
Handover
Owned by your team
Delivery blueprint
Visual summary of what this build includes from quote to handover.
Scope
Written
Deliverables and acceptance checks are fixed before build.
Execution
Instrumented
Retries, logs, and alerts are configured for production.
Controls
Approved
High-risk actions are gated by named human approvers.
Transfer
Owned
Runbook and account ownership move to your team at launch.
The subscription stack is running you
Count the seats. A 15-person team routinely pays $2–5k a month across a CRM, a project tracker, a form builder, a scheduling tool, and 4 dashboards — and each one covers maybe 20% of the actual job. The rest of the work lives in exports, copy-paste, and a spreadsheet named FINAL-v7.
Off-the-shelf software is built for the average of 10,000 companies. Your quoting rules, your dispatch board, your approval chain aren’t average — so your team bends the process to fit the tool, and the gaps get patched with more subscriptions. Per-seat pricing means the bill grows every time you hire, and at every renewal the price goes up while the export button gets harder to find.
What we build
Internal tools shaped to your workflow
Quoting calculators, dispatch boards, client portals, approval flows — the screens your team actually needs, in the order they actually work. Built on Next.js and Postgres, deployed to your own cloud account.
Next.js · TypeScript · Postgres
Owned replacements for per-seat SaaS
We take the 2–3 subscriptions doing the least for the most money and replace them with one tool you own. Flat hosting cost — typically under $50/mo — no matter how many people log in.
React · Postgres · Docker
Integrations with the tools you keep
QuickBooks stays. HubSpot stays. The new tool talks to both — invoices post themselves, deals sync, alerts land in Slack. One webhook, no copy-paste.
QuickBooks · HubSpot · Slack · Stripe
ROI math
$3,000/mo in per-seat subscriptions replaced × 12 = $36,000/yr — typical build $15–25k, hosting under $50/mo.
Typical for this type of automation — your audit prices your exact stack.
How this ships
Week 1
Audit — price the subscription stack
Tool-by-tool cost map and a build-vs-buy call on each subscription
Week 2
Blueprint — spec the screens
Clickable spec — screens, data model, integrations — plus a fixed-price quote
Weeks 3–8
Build — ship v1 in slices
Working v1 in staging by week 5, in production by week 8, demoed to you every Friday
FAQ
What does custom software cost?
Builds start at $15k fixed, quoted in writing after the audit. Compare that against the subscription line it deletes: $2–5k/mo is $24–60k a year, every year. Ongoing cost after launch is hosting — typically under $50/mo.
How long until my team can use it?
Working v1 in 4–8 weeks. We ship the highest-value screen first — most teams are doing real work in the tool by week 5 while we finish the rest.
What stack do you build on?
Next.js, TypeScript, and Postgres in Docker — deliberately boring, hireable technology. Any competent developer can maintain it, which is the point: no exotic framework holds your business hostage.
Who owns the code and the data?
You do — fully. The repo lives in your GitHub organization, the database in your cloud account, the domain in your registrar. If we disappeared tomorrow, everything keeps running and any developer can pick it up.
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