Software for small businesses · Fairbanks, Alaska
Software for the work you’re still doing by hand.
We build the tools, apps and automation that take repetitive work off your team’s plate. We start from how your business actually runs, not from the tech, and hand over something that keeps working.
- On the internet
- On your own computer
- On a phone
- Offline
- On the desktop
- Live, for everyone at once
Sound familiar?
If it’s done by hand every week, it can probably be built.
Slow work is rarely about lazy people or the wrong app. It’s a workflow problem: information that has to be carried from one place to another by somebody, over and over.
- Mon 08:00The weekly report someone rebuilds by hand, from four exports.fixable
- DailyOrders copied out of email and typed into the system, one by one.fixable
- AlwaysA spreadsheet with rules only one person understands.fixable
- UsuallyReminders that go out if somebody remembers to send them.fixable
- Per clientThree apps that each hold a third of the customer.fixable
- Since 2019The tool everyone hates and nobody can replace.fixable
What we build
From one annoying chore to your whole business.
You don’t need to know what kind of software you need. These are the problems we solve most often, in plain English.
What we build, in plain English- Stop typing the same thing twiceYour apps pass information to each other, and reminders go out on their own.
- Replace the spreadsheet everyone’s afraid ofA proper tool your team can share, instead of a file only one person dares to touch.
- Turn your idea into a productSoftware you can sell to other businesses, with sign-ups, billing and updates handled.
- A website that brings in customersBuilt around one goal, easy to find in search, and yours to update. We host it and look after it.
- Computers and networks that just workNew equipment or what you have, set up properly, written down, and looked after remotely.
- Keep your data under your own roofSoftware that runs on your own computer or server, so private things stay private.
- Apps that work anywhere, even offlineOn a phone, in the field, with no signal and no app store.
- Everyone on the same page, liveScreens that update for everyone at once, so nobody is working from old information.
Featured work · Live, with paying customers
CenterSuite: one product that runs a whole learning center.
Families, schedules, attendance, progress reports, texting, staff hours and billing, in one place instead of six. Each center gets its own address and its own database, and the rules send reminders and follow-ups on their own.
- 10
- kinds of center on one product
- ~6,500
- automated tests
- 1
- separate database per center
- ~2 wks
- between releases
Web app · messaging
Web Messaging
iMessage on any computer, even a locked-down one.
A browser, a relay server and a small agent on a Mac
App · phone-first, offline
The Modern Person
Keep an ADHD life on track without another account to sign up for.
On the device, in one file, offline
Voice assistant · self-hosted
Self-hosted voice assistant
A kitchen-counter assistant that doesn’t live in someone else’s cloud.
On its own server at home
Websites
Websites too, built the same way.
A website is software with one job: turning the people who find you into calls, bookings and enquiries. We build each one around that job, make it yours to update, and host it for you.
- Historic Kempton HotelCheck dates and book a room from the very first screen.
- Yellow Bird YogaA studio website built around one thing, booking a class.
- The Beach HouseGet people calling the right salon, from any page.
- Stay TerryA small town’s visitor guide that sends people to its hotel.
How it goes
Small stages, real progress every week.
- 01
Watch the work
We sit with the job as it really happens, workarounds and all, before anyone talks about software.
- 02
Prove the hard part
The riskiest piece gets built first, small and working, so surprises turn up early and cheaply.
- 03
Ship in stages
You use each stage as it lands. Every week there’s something real to look at, not a status report.
- 04
Run it for you
Hosting, updates, backups and a check every month, so it still works next year. Or take it with you: it’s yours.
Built to keep working
Software people rely on has to survive Tuesday.
The interesting part of a system is what happens when something goes wrong. These are the habits that make ours boring in the best way.
Tested where it counts
Automated tests on the parts that would hurt if they broke, so a new release is routine, not a gamble.
CenterSuite: around 6,500 tests, a release every couple of weeksBackups you’ve actually restored
A backup nobody has restored is a hope. Ours are tested by restoring them, on a schedule.
CenterSuite: nightly encrypted backups, a monthly restore drillFails gracefully
When one piece goes down, the rest keeps working. AI explains; ordinary code does the arithmetic.
Draft assistant: keeps working if the AI doesn’tUndo is a feature
People make mistakes, and so do voice commands. Actions that can be undone get an undo.
Voice assistant: undoes what it just didThe server is the referee
Rules and permissions are checked where nobody can tamper with them, not just on screen.
Anagrid: the server checks every word and every tileFast on a bad connection
Open from what’s already on the device, then fetch only what changed. Nothing waits on outside servers.
Web Messaging: opens instantly, works on locked-down PCs
Articles
Plain-English advice, from real projects.
- When a spreadsheet should become an appSpreadsheets are brilliant until they quietly become the system your business runs on. Six signs it’s time, and what to keep when you move.
- Self-hosted, cloud or on-device: where software should runWhere a piece of software runs shapes its cost, its privacy and what happens when the internet drops. How we choose, with three real examples.
- Software that fails gracefullyEvery system breaks somewhere. The good ones keep working when a piece fails. Four habits we build in, and where they’ve saved the day.
Next step
What’s the job you’d like to stop doing by hand?
Describe the problem in a few sentences. Within one working day you’ll hear whether software would fix it, roughly what it would take, and what we’d look at first.