Custom software built around how your business actually works.
Web and mobile applications, systems integration and product engineering, from the first requirement to long-term maintenance. Built by engineers in Southwest Oregon for businesses that have outgrown their workarounds.
Solve the right problem first. We start with what the software needs to change in your business, then decide whether it needs to be built at all.
Most custom software starts as a workaround that got too big.
Nobody sets out to commission software. They set out to stop doing something the hard way, and discover the tools they own will not stretch any further.
The spreadsheet that runs the business
Built for one person years ago, now shared by ten people and trusted by nobody.
Typing the same data twice
Orders, invoices and records re-entered into systems that should already be talking to each other.
Software that almost fits
Paying for features nobody uses while working around the one you actually need.
An application nobody can maintain
The original developer is gone, and so is support for the platform it runs on.
Customers asking to do it themselves
Requests for a portal to check status, submit a form or pay online.
Reports that take days
Numbers pulled from four places and assembled by hand before every meeting.
Six ways we turn a workaround into software.
Most projects combine two or three of these. An internal tool usually needs integration, and anything customers touch needs testing before it ships.
Web applications
Custom software that runs in a browser: customer portals, internal tools and dashboards, built and supported for the long term.
Mobile applications
Enterprise mobile solutions that let your organization manage the use of mobile devices safely, securely and efficiently.
Interface design
Application screens designed around the people who use them every day, so the software gets adopted rather than avoided.
Product engineering
Taking an idea from concept to working product, with experience building software from the ground up.
Systems integration
Connecting legacy applications to modern systems, so data moves on its own instead of by hand.
QA and testing
Automated testing frameworks configured and maintained for your application, so every release is checked before it ships.
Proven languages, chosen for the long run.
We pick the stack that fits the problem and the people who will maintain the software, not the one that is fashionable this year. Object-oriented design throughout, so the code stays readable when it needs to change.
Built with current frameworks and components, and a strong technical back end behind an easy-to-use front end.
Seven phases. None of them skipped.
Software projects rarely fail in development. They fail earlier, when a phase gets rushed because it did not feel like progress. So every project follows the same sequence, whatever its size.
Planning
The whole team agrees on the plan, the cost estimate and what needs procuring. When we finish, the plan is something everyone can understand.
Requirements
Talking to the people who will use it and looking at real data, so every feature earns its place.
Design and prototyping
Mapping the solution and prototyping it, so feedback arrives before the expensive part.
Development
Requirements and prototypes become working code, and you start seeing something that looks like the finished product.
Testing
Checked for code quality, stated requirements, performance and secure development principles.
Implementation and integration
Deployed where people can use it, whether that is one web server or a dozen connected systems.
Operations and maintenance
Watched for defects after launch, fixed when found and planned for the next round of improvements.
Prototypes before production.
Without a prototype, a team can spend months perfecting software nobody asked for. A prototype is the cheapest place to find out you were wrong.
Custom software pays when it removes work, not when it adds features.
Custom development used to be out of reach for most businesses. It no longer is, which makes it more important to build only what earns its keep.
It saves time
Designed around your processes, with the tools you need and none you do not, so the work that took an afternoon takes minutes.
One system instead of several
Replaces the switching between programs and databases with one place where the information and the work actually live.
It grows with you
Built to scale as demands change, adding capacity and new processes as the business needs them rather than all at once.
When we will tell you not to build.
If an established product already does most of what you need, configuring it or connecting it to your other systems is usually faster and cheaper than writing something new. We will say so, even when building would be the larger project.
Software needs somewhere safe to live. We run that too.
Custom software runs on servers, networks and cloud accounts that need securing, backing up and patching. When the people who built the application also manage what it runs on, an outage is a problem someone owns, not a question of whose fault it is.
For managed IT clients, software work sits on the same technology roadmap as everything else, planned and budgeted alongside it.
Build and hand off
Delivered, documented and deployed. You own the running system and the record of how it was built.
Build and maintain
We stay on after launch, fixing defects and planning the next round of improvements.
Software inside managed IT
Run, secured and backed up on infrastructure we manage, and planned on the same roadmap as the rest of your technology.
Should we build custom software or buy something off the shelf?
Buy when a well-supported product already fits most of what you need. Build when the gap is the part that makes your business different, or when you are paying for several tools to do one job. We will tell you which, including when the answer is not to build.
How is a software project priced?
Against a written scope, after planning and requirements. You see what will be built, the timeline and the cost before development starts. If something changes, the change is scoped and approved before it is built.
Who owns the software when it is finished?
Ownership and licensing terms are set out in writing as part of the scope, before development begins, so there is no ambiguity later.
Can you connect our existing systems instead of replacing them?
Yes, and it is often the fastest win. Systems integration connects legacy applications to modern ones so data moves on its own, without replacing software that still does its job.
What happens after the software launches?
Operations and maintenance. We watch for defects, fix them when they appear and help plan the next round of improvements, because good software is never really finished.
Do you build mobile apps as well as web applications?
Yes. We build enterprise mobile solutions alongside browser-based applications, and many projects need both.
Describe the problem. We will tell you if it needs building.
Start with the spreadsheet, the workaround or the system slowing you down. A free assessment tells you whether to build, buy or connect, whether or not you hire us.