St. Paul, Minnesota
Let us build the system that matches your firm's needs.
If you're using any of these, we can help:
- A system built on spreadsheets
- A monthly subscription that does about half of what you need and can't be customized
- A manual process that works but only one person knows the right order
We can build the software that replaces it — at a fixed price, agreed before we start. Over thirty years of experience and no surprises on the invoice.
Sound familiar?
Two versions of the same problem
The spreadsheet that became a systemEvery firm, eventually
A star employee wrote a spreadsheet that four people now depend on to do their job, and only she knows how it all works. What happens if she leaves the firm?
The product that almost fitsPractice management · Case management · Project tools
You bought software to handle this and it does about half of what you need. The other half still happens in email and in a folder on the shared drive. You are paying a subscription and doing the work by hand anyway.
None of this is a technology problem. It's that you're the right size to have real process and the wrong size to hire software engineers.
John Donaghy · Founder, Heuron Technology
Two ways in
A project, or a person on hand
Most engagements start here
Something built
You know roughly what's broken. We scope it properly, we price it once, and we build it. Weeks, not quarters — and you see working software along the way rather than a status report about working software.
You either run it yourself or we host it. Never locked in either way.
For firms without a technical anyone
Someone to think with
The vendor contract you can't evaluate. The security questionnaire a client just sent you. Build or buy. What to actually do about AI, as opposed to what everyone says about it.
A day or two a month, on retainer. Fractional CTO, if you want the term for it.
Same practice, different arrangement. The second usually starts because of the first.
How a build works
Three stages. You can stop after the first and still come out ahead.
Discovery
Two weeks. We sit with the people who do the work today, then write it down: what the system has to do, what it connects to, what could go wrong, and what it will cost to build.
You own that document whether or not you hire us for the build. Take it to another firm and it will still be the best specification anyone there has ever been handed.
The build, at a fixed price
Priced from the specification, agreed in writing, before a line of code is written. If it takes twice as long as we expected, the price doesn't change. That risk is ours, and carrying it is a real part of what you're paying for.
Then you run it, or we do
Either way, you already own it. The source lives in your own source repositories and the infrastructure in your cloud subscription from the first week — not handed over at the end, but yours while the work is happening.
So hosting is a convenience you buy, not a dependency you acquire. There's no version of this where you're stuck with us, and that's in the contract rather than promised on a website.
How the work gets done
Production software with orchestrated AI agents.
Agents write the code, but nothing merges until it has passed tests, a review by a second agent on a different machine that never saw it being written, and a person opening its preview and using it. That is why we can quote a fixed price before we start and hold it.
No mystery
What it costs
Build prices are fixed and agreed in writing before work starts. Ranges narrow to a single number at the end of discovery.
People ask why the prices are on the website. Because you were going to ask in the first meeting, and neither of us needs to spend a meeting on it.
Why us
Half my career in startups, the other half in Corporate America.
The startup half
Twenty years of building products where shipping was the whole job — market data, healthcare, enterprise software, the New York Stock Exchange. Then five years as co-founder and CTO of Axon Financial Systems, a company I self-funded and sold in 2019.
That's the half that lets us move quickly and quote a fixed price without flinching.
The enterprise half
Since 2019, software and platform engineering inside large organizations — first RSM US, a national accounting and consulting firm, then a national title insurer, building cloud infrastructure under genuine security, audit, and change-control constraints.
That's the half that means nothing we hand you is a prototype, and that we take your clients' data as seriously as you have to.
Firms your size need both halves and can't usually buy either one.
What you own
You own everything from the first week.
The source sits in your own source repositories. The infrastructure sits in your own cloud subscription (we can help with that too). The tests, the deployment automation, the documentation, the keys — all in your possession while the work is still going on. If you ever need to hand it to someone else, they pick up a documented, tested, running codebase — and that is an ordinary thing to hire for.