Service two
When the software you need doesn't exist, we build it.
You've tried the off-the-shelf tools. One is too much, one is missing the thing you actually need, and the workaround has quietly become three spreadsheets and a group text. That's the moment a custom app pays for itself.
We've shipped our own. Twice.
Gridiron IQ is live on the App Store — a coaching app with depth charts, player evaluations and game planning, designed, built, submitted and supported by us. ProjectPulse AI runs a production Procore integration, pulling live cost and schedule data out of construction jobs.
That matters for one reason: we've already made the expensive mistakes on our own budget. App Store rejections, offline sync, push notifications that don't arrive, third-party APIs that change without warning. You're not funding our education.
Our CTO, Evans Bekoe, wrote codascon — an open-source protocol that enforces architecture at compile time rather than letting problems surface in production at 2am. It's public on npm. You can read the standard your software will be built to.
What we tend to build.
For the crew in the field
- Job checklists and inspection sign-offs with photo evidence
- Time and material capture at the job site instead of at 9pm
- Equipment and inventory tracking with barcode or QR scan
- Daily reports generated from what the crew already entered
- Works offline in a metal building and syncs when signal returns
For your customers
- Booking, rescheduling, and arrival windows
- Job status they can check without calling your office
- Estimate approval and deposit payment in one tap
- Service history, warranties, and reorder
- Membership or maintenance-plan management
Discovery first. Always.
Nobody should sign a $40,000 build contract based on a conversation. Discovery is a fixed-price two-week engagement that ends with you holding something real, whether or not you hire us for the build.
Discovery
Two weeks. You end up with enough to make a decision, or to take to another builder.
- Process walkthrough on site with your team
- Written scope: what it does, what it doesn't
- Clickable prototype you can hand to a crew member
- Fixed build price and schedule
- Honest recommendation, including "buy this existing tool instead"
Build
Fixed price against the discovery scope. Change requests are priced separately and openly.
- First working version in your hands in about four weeks
- Weekly build review, no status theater
- iOS, Android, or web — whatever fits the work
- Integrations with QuickBooks, Procore, your CRM
- App Store and Play Store submission handled
- Training for your team at handoff
Support retainer
Software that people use every day needs someone responsible for it.
- Hosting, monitoring, and backups
- OS and store compliance updates
- Bug fixes at no additional charge
- A monthly block of hours for improvements
- Direct line for anything urgent
The build, week by week.
Discovery
We watch the work happen, interview the people doing it, and write down what the software has to do.
Prototype and scope
A clickable version and a fixed price. This is the decision point, and it's a real one.
First working version
Real software on a real phone, doing the core job. Your team starts poking holes in it.
Build out and harden
Everything else in scope, plus the offline, permission, and edge-case work that separates a demo from a tool.
Store submission and rollout
Submission, review, and the fixes reviewers ask for. Then training, and a pilot crew before everyone.
Common questions.
Who owns the code?
You do, outright, on final payment. It lives in a repository in your organization. Any shared internal libraries we use are licensed to you perpetually. You can hire anyone else to work on it afterward.
What if we should just buy something instead?
Then we'll tell you that, and discovery will have cost you $2,500 to avoid a $40,000 mistake. It happens regularly and we consider it a good outcome.
Will it work without signal?
If your crews work in metal buildings, on the water, or out past cell coverage, we design for offline from the start — local storage with sync when the connection comes back. Say so early, because retrofitting offline support is expensive.
Do you use AI to write the code?
Yes, and carefully. The reason codascon exists is that AI-generated code is fast but drifts architecturally. Our builds enforce structure at compile time so the generated code is correct by construction, then a human reviews it. You get the speed without the mess.
How do you handle the App Store?
We publish under your developer account, which you own. We handle enrollment, listing copy, screenshots, privacy declarations, submission, and the rejections — which are normal and expected the first time.
Describe the workaround you're tired of.
The best app projects start with a specific, annoying, repeated problem — not a vision. Tell us what your team does twice because the software won't do it once.