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Custom operational software · Calgary

Switch your business on.

Software built around how your business actually runs, for companies of 20 to 500 people. Delivered in weeks. Owned by you.

Weeksto a first release, not quarters
100%code, data and infrastructure yours
Calgarybuilt and supported here
Jobs_FINAL_v7 (Dave’s copy).xlsx
JobStatusDueTotalKitchen panels ×40??? ask Dave11/14#REF!Countertops, lot 12waiting on PO14-Nov18,240Door skins RUSHSHIPPED?nov 12#VALUE!Shelving, store refitsee email9875.5Kitchen panels x40on hold (why)11/21Panels, reorderapproved??TBD#REF!
RE: RE: FW: can someone approve the PO??Sent Tuesday. No reply.
Only Linda knows the macro. Back Monday.

For manufacturers, builders, field-service and distribution companies, where operations are the business.

  • Manufacturing
  • Construction
  • Field services
  • Distribution
What switching on looks like

Most businesses run in the dark.

The work gets done. But every room keeps its own records, and nobody can see the whole floor at once.

01 · Front office

Quotes and orders, entered once.

What sales promises is what the floor sees. Nobody re-types it into the next system down the hall.

02 · Production

Every job knows its next step.

The schedule moves when the work moves, on the wall and at the bench, not on a whiteboard someone updates on Fridays.

03 · Stock

Material counted as it is used.

You know what is on the racking today, not what the last count said.

04 · Shipping

Out the door and invoiced the same minute.

The packing slip, the truck and the invoice all come from one event.

05 · Connected

One system. Yours.

Every room on one source of truth, running on software you own.

Start with one workflow
Who it’s for

Too complex for spreadsheets. Too specific for an ERP.

Pick the one you recognise.

It becomes

A job-costing screen everyone can read.

JobMaterialLabourMarginKitchen panels ×40$4,210$1,85031%Countertops, lot 12$7,960$3,12027%Door skins, rush$2,480$1,44022%Shelving, store refit$5,130$2,26029%

The formulas live in tested code, not in one person’s head.

Illustrative screens, not client data.

Two options. Both a compromise.

Bend the business to fit the software, or depend on whoever wrote it. There is a third way now.

Option A

Off-the-shelf software

  • Fast to buy.
  • Hard to fit.
  • Rented forever.
  • Their roadmap, not yours.
Option B

Traditional custom software

  • Perfect fit.
  • Slow and expensive.
  • Painful to change.
  • Only its builders understand it.
The new model

AI changed the economics.

Custom software was slow, costly to change, and dependent on its author. AI-assisted engineering fixes the first two. We design away the third.

  • Fits like custom.
  • First release in weeks.
  • Cheap to change.
  • Maintainable by anyone capable.
Ownership

And it’s yours.

  • Source codeYour repository.Yours.
  • DataYour database, readable schema.Yours.
  • InfrastructureYour cloud accounts.Yours.
  • DocumentationFor the next engineer, human or AI.Yours.
  • RoadmapSet by you, not a vendor.Yours.

Even we aren’t required.

We build every system so you can leave us. Mainstream technology, predictable architecture, no proprietary runtime. Any capable team can pick it up.

README.mdstart here
docs/architecture/how it fits together
docs/decisions/why it was built this way
docs/runbooks/deploy, restore, recover
AGENTS.mdcontext for AI engineers
src/domain/your business, modelled
tests/proof it still works
infra/infrastructure as code

One mission. Five ways in.

Strategy, UX, engineering, AI and cloud, from one small senior studio, end to end.

Real systems, running in real businesses.

Not a platform. Each one is built around the way that company already works, then kept growing with it.

Also under way
  • A digital transformation engagement with a Calgary manufacturer.
  • The storefront and operations platform behind a Calgary wine retailer.
  • Managed websites for Calgary professional practices.

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Start with one workflow.

Tell us which one hurts the most. We will show you it as software you own, and what it would take to get there.

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