Software you own.
You don't need all of it. You need your part of it, built around how you work, in weeks. I build it at a fixed price, and you own it.
The big platforms build for millions. I build for your team.
A platform with millions of customers has to carry every feature any of them might want. You pay for all of it, every month, per seat, and most teams use a small slice. The rest of the work happens in spreadsheets and copy-paste around the tool.
So the question isn't whether I can out-build a big software company. It's how fast you can have the part you actually use, shaped to how your team works. Usually two to four weeks after the audit.
You own the code, the data and the accounts. A Care Plan keeps it running, and you can leave whenever you like.
Who it's for.
Teams paying every month for a tool where they use one or two features, and working around the rest.
A good fit
- Teams paying a few hundred to a few thousand dollars a month for software they use one or two features of: schedulers, intake forms, simple CRMs, client portals, proposal and e-sign tools, social posting, internal dashboards
- Teams whose workflow doesn't fit the tool, so people work around it with spreadsheets and copy-paste
- Owners tired of per-seat price rises, add-on fees and losing their data when they cancel
Not a fit
- Replacing a whole platform where the vendor's scale is the point: accounting ledgers, payroll, email delivery at volume
- Anything regulated that needs a certification to run
- "Clone this famous app" with no clear payback
Audit, build, care.
The same small, fixed steps as everything else I do. You know what the next one costs before you take it, and you can stop after any of them.
- Replacement audit$995one time, credited to the build
What you pay now, which features your team actually uses, what the tool can't do for you, and the month a build would pay for itself.
Credited in full toward the build. You keep the plan either way.
- Build SprintFixed priceafter the audit
I build the part your team actually uses, shaped to how you work, to a written scope in two to four weeks.
Includes moving your data from the old tool and a side-by-side run before you cancel.
- Care Planfrom $450per month
I keep it running: monitoring, fixes and steady improvements as your work changes.
Month to month. The code, data and accounts are yours either way.
The payback line.
Every proposal ends with one sentence: what you pay each month now, what the build costs once plus care each month, and the month it pays for itself. After that month, it's yours.
I don't put a number on it before the audit. The audit is where I measure what you pay and what you use, so the number is one I can stand behind.
How fast? Watch one being built.
Building new software is my favorite part of this work, and I do it for myself first. postbot, my replacement for the social scheduler I rent, started on October 31. Its Workbench card logs each milestone with the date it actually happened.
Questions people ask first.
How can one person compete with a big software company?
I don't try to. They build for millions of customers, so the product carries every feature any of them might want, and you pay for all of it. I build the slice your team uses, around how your work actually moves. A small, focused tool is something one person can build in weeks and keep running for years.
What does "you own it" mean?
The code, the data and every account it runs on are set up in your name. There is no license fee to me. If you stop working with me, it keeps running, and the handover notes let you or another developer look after it.
What does a build cost?
It depends on what you actually use, so I quote it after the audit, as one fixed price for a written scope. Every quote comes with the payback line, so you can see whether it is worth doing before you agree to anything.
What if the audit says to keep the tool?
Then the plan says so. Sometimes a cheaper tier, a setting nobody switched on, or dropping a few seats is the right answer. That is a good outcome, and the plan is yours either way.
Is this remote?
Yes. I am based in Louisville, Kentucky and work with teams anywhere in the US, in writing by default, with a video call whenever you want one. I don't do in-person visits.
Tell me what you're renting. I'll tell you how fast you could own it.
Fifteen minutes on what you pay for and what your team actually uses. If it looks worth it, the next step is the $995 replacement audit, credited in full to the build.