Software built the way it should be built.
Custom software for anything you can describe. If a workflow is yours, a tool is yours, a system is yours, we build it the way it should be built — typed, tested, documented, deployable, and structured so the next engineer (yours or ours) can pick it up without us.
We treat every engagement as if you'll one day hire your own team to take it over. The deliverable is documented code, not a black box. Tests are real (not vanity); the deployment story is one command, not a 9-page wiki page. "Custom" means custom — we don't have a 200-template SaaS framework you have to fit into. We have an opinionated stack and we apply it to whatever the problem actually is.
- ✓Anything custom — name a workflow, name a tool, name a system. Civic / governance tooling (e.g., Sacred.Vote), case management, intake automation, internal admin, public-facing apps
- ✓Web applications, primarily in Rust + TypeScript stacks for type-safe correctness
- ✓Mobile apps for the workflows that need them — never as a checkbox
- ✓API design + integration with the systems you already pay for (M365, Salesforce, Stripe, Plaid, etc.)
- ✓Legacy modernization with a documented migration path, not a forklift rewrite
- ✓Database design that survives 10x growth without an emergency consulting engagement
- ✓Self-hostable architectures — your software runs on your infrastructure if you want it to
- ✓Open-source-by-default where it serves you, with a clear license posture
Organizations with a workflow that's outgrown the off-the-shelf tools, a regulated environment where an off-the-shelf SaaS would create unacceptable data-handling exposure, or a one-of-a-kind requirement (Sacred.Vote-class civic infrastructure, niche compliance pipelines, novel research instrumentation) that no vendor sells.
A nonprofit running case-management on a Google Sheets + email workflow needed real software but couldn't afford SaaS pricing tiers. We built a self-hosted case-management app on top of their existing infrastructure, documented for in-house handoff. Annual cost: $0 SaaS, ~3hr/mo maintenance.
Fixed scope, fixed price, agreed in writing — see how we work.