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Custom builds

Custom tool builds

The internal tool, CLI, or mobile app on your roadmap, commissioned instead of pulling an engineer off the product. Here is the shape of the work.

Every team has the tool that would save hours a week, the one that has sat on the roadmap for six months because building it means pulling someone off the product. We build that tool, from a spec you have or one we write with you, so it ships without costing you the roadmap.

You can hire us for a defined build with a clear deliverable. Here is what tends to fall into that.

What we build

Internal tools and small SaaS apps

The dashboard, the admin panel, the workflow tool, the thing your team keeps doing by hand in a spreadsheet. Built as a web app, with a login and a backend where the job needs one, and kept simple enough that it is cheap to change later.

Command-line tools

When the job is really a script your team runs ten times a day, a proper CLI beats a web app: fast, scriptable, and easy to drop into a pipeline. We build it with sensible flags, help text, and the error messages that make it usable by the next person.

Flutter mobile apps

When you need a real mobile app on iOS and Android from one codebase, we build it in Flutter. Good for an internal app, a companion to your product, or a focused tool, scoped to what it actually needs to do rather than a two-year platform.

How it works

We start from your spec, or write one with you before anything is built, so we both know what “done” looks like. Then we build against it, deploy it, document it, and hand you the repository. Scoped to the work, quoted before we start.

Not what this is

We do not take on open-ended feature work with no scope. We need enough detail to quote a defined build, and if the shape is still fuzzy, the first step is a short paid discovery to write the spec, not an open tab.

We do not build your entire company’s platform in one go. We build the tool, well, and hand it over. A sprawling multi-year system is a different kind of commitment and a different kind of team.

We do not keep the code. When the build ships, the repository is yours, deployed on an account you control, with nothing of ours left to remove.

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