Custom Software · with Hardware & Instrumentation, IT & Managed Services, CybersecurityOnshore engineering for operationsTexas, United States
Custom software,
engineered in America.
We build and secure the operational systems companies actually run on: the layer above the control network and beside the ERP that neither your controls integrator nor your ERP partner will own. Scoped and priced against your budget and your requirements, agreed before anything starts.
- Start
- A scoping call, then a fixed-fee discovery
- Estimate
- Scoped to your budget and requirements
- Ownership
- Agreed in the engagement agreement, before work starts
- Exit
- 30 days’ notice after first release
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- Python
- Go
- .NET
- PostgreSQL
- Kafka
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Azure
- Snowflake
- dbt
- React Native
- FHIR
- EDI X12
- OpenTelemetry
What we’re for
Every specialist has a ceiling. The MSP stops at the firewall, the controls integrator stops at the panel, the ERP partner stops at the data model, and the problem that crosses all three belongs to nobody.
We started this firm because we had been the customer holding a folder of vendor contracts and one problem none of them owned. Four divisions inside one company is the answer to that: software, hardware, IT and security are separate practices with separate people, and the seam between them is somebody’s job here.
Senior people, small teams
The people who sell the engagement are the people who deliver it. There is no bait-and-switch to a junior bench, because we don’t have one, and no account manager sitting between you and whoever is writing the code.
Onshore, one time zone
Every engineer is US-based. No overnight hand-off, no requirement that ambiguity be resolved in writing before anyone can start, no eleven-hour round trip on a question that takes ninety seconds to answer.
Ship weekly, from week one
Working software in a real environment every week is the only honest status report. Anything else measures activity rather than progress.
Capabilities
Nine disciplines, one delivery team.
Most engagements draw on three or four of these at once. They’re listed separately because the work is distinct, not because you have to choose one.
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Custom Software Development
Operational systems built around how your business actually runs: scheduling, dispatch, quoting, claims, compliance, whatever the spreadsheet is currently holding together.
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Legacy Modernization
Incremental replacement of the systems that have become too risky to change and too central to retire, without a big-bang cutover.
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Web & Mobile Applications
Customer portals, field applications and internal tools with the interface quality of a consumer product and the reliability of infrastructure.
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Website Design & Development
Public sites that load fast on a phone, meet WCAG 2.2 AA, edit without a developer, and stay in your accounts. Built new, or taken over from whoever built the last one.
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Search & AI Visibility
Diagnosis and repair of the reasons a site is not being found: crawl, render, duplication, structured data, performance and the answer surfaces that now sit above the results.
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Cloud & Platform Engineering
Infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines and observability, so that shipping a change on a Tuesday afternoon is boring.
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Data Engineering & Analytics
Pipelines, warehouses and semantic models that make one number mean one thing across the entire company.
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AI & Applied Machine Learning
Narrow, evaluated AI aimed at a specific expensive task (document extraction, classification, forecasting, assisted drafting) with a human in the loop and a number attached.
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Systems Integration & APIs
ERP, WMS, EHR, CRM, EDI and the twenty other acronyms in your estate, connected reliably, with retries, idempotency and a real audit trail.
Selected work
Systems carrying real load, with the numbers attached.
Client names are withheld under NDA unless the client has agreed to be named. Everything else (the constraints, the sequence, the results) is described as it happened.
Industries
We learn one domain properly before we claim it.
Ten sectors we know well enough to be useful in the first meeting, and the regime each one has to satisfy.
Engineering practice
Depth you can interrogate, not adjectives.
Nobody hires us to build a compiler or a consensus store. They hire us to build the systems that turn out to be those things with the name filed off, and we would rather be tested on that early than trusted on a brochure.
Status accepted 2026-03-04, supersedes ADR-0009Context Legacy pricing is 140k lines of stored procedures, no test suite, four known-wrong edge cases the business depends on.Decision Run both engines on every request for two billing cycles. Legacy stays authoritative, ours is shadow-scored and diffed nightly.Cut over Nightly diff empty for ten cycles running.Cost About 6% added write-path latency until then. Accepted.Rejected Big-bang cutover behind a flag. The flag was never the risk. The absence of a comparison was.Distributed state
Compilers and language tooling
Operational technology security
Vulnerability research
Applied machine learning
Embedded and hardware interfaces
Concurrency
Geometry and optimization
Insights
What we’ve learned, written down.
No gated PDFs, no thought-leadership. These are the arguments we end up making in real client meetings.
How it works
Five phases. You can stop after any of them.
Every phase has a defined exit, and the exit is always yours to take. That constraint is what keeps the work honest.
- Phase 1
First call
One conversation to work out whether this is a problem we should be working on together.
- Phase 2
Discovery
Paid, fixed-scope, and it ends in a plan you could hand to another firm, plus working code proving the riskiest assumption.
- Phase 3
First release
A small senior team puts something real into use: a production system, a pilot running on the floor, or a finding you can reproduce.
- Phase 4
Iterate & scale
The system grows against evidence from production rather than against a plan written before anyone used it.
- Phase 5
Maintenance & support
We keep the system healthy after launch, and your team can take it over whenever you’d rather run it yourselves.
Next step
Tell us what’s breaking.
Forty-five minutes, no charge, no deck. We’ll tell you what we’d do, what it would likely cost, and whether what you already have can be made to work.