Fox Valley, Wisconsin
Custom software stopped costing what it used to.
Business software was expensive because it took a large team a long time. Most of that time went into work that is now largely mechanical. What remains is judgment — and a much smaller number at the end.
- Team size
- 1–2 developers
- Not a bench you are funding
- First working software
- Weeks
- Not a quarter of mockups
- Code ownership
- Yours
- Delivered to your repository
Why the old number was so large
A custom system used to mean six to ten people for the better part of a year. Very little of that was invention. It was data models, forms wired to tables, the ninth screen that behaves like the previous eight, migrations, test coverage, and documentation nobody read.
That work was real and it had to be right, which is exactly why it consumed the budget. It is also the part that compresses hardest now.
What does not compress is the part that decides whether the project works at all: understanding how your business actually operates, modelling it correctly, and recognising which convenient shortcut becomes next year's problem.
That is still human work, done slowly and on purpose. It is why the team gets smaller rather than disappearing — and why we spend our time on your process rather than on typing.
What we build
All services →Legacy system replacement
The system everyone complains about, replaced without betting the company on a two-year project.
Warehouse and inventory systems
Know what you have, where it is, and what is committed — without a clipboard reconciliation.
Internal tools
The spreadsheet five people edit and nobody trusts, turned into something that enforces its own rules.
Customer portals
Let customers check status, approve, and pay without calling you.
Integrations
Two systems that refuse to talk to each other, made to talk to each other.
Scheduling and dispatch
Jobs, crews, and calendars in one place, working on a phone in the field.
Who we work with
Manufacturing
The Fox Valley runs on manufacturing, and a striking amount of it runs on systems installed before the current plant manager arrived, held together by spreadsheets and a few people who know where the bodies are buried.
Distribution and logistics
Distribution problems are rarely conceptual. They are counts that do not match, locations that are approximately right, and staff who long ago stopped trusting the screen.
Contractors and trades
Service businesses tend to outgrow their tools suddenly. The system that was fine last year is the reason this year is chaotic, and off-the-shelf field software often costs more per seat than the problem is worth.
Professional services
Firms that bill for expertise usually lose a surprising amount of that expertise to administration — chasing documents, re-entering data, and assembling reports by hand.
Tell us what your business does by hand that it shouldn't.
No discovery invoice, no obligation. If what you need is smaller than you think, or not worth building at all, we will say so — that answer is free too.
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