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Custom Web & Cloud Application Development

We replace 10 to 100 SaaS products with one production system you own. Greenfield, re-platform, or takeover. Shipped in weeks.

Replace the SaaS Sprawl With One System You Own

Growing companies often end up with 10 to 100 separate SaaS products, plus people copying data between them. The stack almost fits, but never quite. The software bill rises, and so does the labor required to hold it together.

The job we do is collapsing that sprawl into one custom system you own. We replace most of the stack, often 90% or more, while keeping the specialist tools that still earn their keep. A 28-year software veteran directs an AI engineering swarm that does it at the pace of a full team.

Most companies could not afford this class of project in 2025. Agentic engineering changed the economics: the same custom build now costs about 10-15% of what it cost in November 2025 and ships in weeks. That is custom versus custom, not custom versus SaaS. Against SaaS the win is total cost of ownership. A $10,000-a-month stack is $120,000 a year; the build can often land below that first-year bill, then run for about $1,000-$2,000 a month, and years two and three are where the savings get large.

Every engagement is founder-led and CTO-led. The swarm builds; the veteran decides. Nothing is offshored or handed to a junior team. This level of engagement was not available at any price before this year. You own the software.

What we build

Architecture & system design

Right-sized architecture that handles your real load plus a realistic 10x. No premature complexity. No hand-rolled infrastructure where managed cloud primitives exist.

Greenfield application development

New systems from concept to production, designed around the workflows, rules, and data model the business actually needs. The engagement we like most.

Legacy modernization

We take over 15-year-old codebases, map the risks, restore tests and observability, and ship safely. When replacement is the better move, the existing system becomes the source of truth.

Cloud-native deployment

AWS-first deployment with proper environments, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and cost discipline. Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, Lambda, RDS - whatever fits the workload.

API & integrations

REST and GraphQL APIs, third-party platform integrations (Stripe, Salesforce, Zendesk, Snowflake, etc.), and the real-world plumbing that connects them.

DevOps & reliability

CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, structured logging, metrics, alerting. Built for teams that ship frequently and sleep through the night.

Stack

Languages & frameworks: Java, Groovy, Grails, Spring Boot, Kotlin. Frontend: TypeScript, React, Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js. Cloud & infra: AWS (EB, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront), Docker, Terraform. Data: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Snowflake.

28 years of shipped software. Now with a swarm.

From early-stage MVPs to systems handling more than $1B in cumulative revenue. Real production experience compounds in ways that frameworks alone never can. The tools changed this year. A veteran CTO now directs an AI engineering swarm, and the judgment, production discipline, and ownership are the same as ever.

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Frequently asked questions

These are the production-grade stacks that scale from a one-person startup to enterprise without rewrites. Java has 30 years of library and tooling depth, Spring Boot is the de facto standard for cloud-native services, and Grails gives Rails-style productivity with the performance and operational maturity of Java. We use them because they are the right tools for sustainable, long-running businesses - not because they are trendy.

Yes. We have shipped TypeScript, Python, and PHP systems and integrate with whatever stack a client already runs. We default to the Java ecosystem when starting from scratch because it produces lower long-term cost, but we will not force a rewrite when an existing stack is fit for purpose.

Yes. We get up to speed fast, run a structured assessment, document risks, fix the highest-leverage issues first, and bring CI, observability, and test coverage up to a state where future work is safe and fast.

By designing for the load you actually have plus a realistic 10x, instrumenting from day one, choosing managed cloud primitives over hand-rolled infrastructure, and load-testing before traffic arrives. Premature scale is wasted money. The right answer is observability plus architecture that does not have to be torn out when the next traffic step happens.

Greenfield builds, re-platforms, existing-system takeovers, and SaaS consolidation. A scoped build often ships in 4-8 weeks. Every engagement has a written scope, production milestones, and a definition of done. You own the code.

Pricing follows a written scope. The same custom build now typically costs about 10-15% of what it cost in November 2025. That is custom versus custom, not custom versus SaaS. Against SaaS, licenses are only somewhat cheaper; total cost of ownership is the win. At $10,000 a month, SaaS costs $120,000 a year. A build can often land below that bill, then run for $1,000-$2,000 a month. Years two and three bring the large savings, plus less glue labor.

Keep What Works. Replace the Rest.

Show us the stack and the work people do between tools. We will map what one system should absorb, what should stay, and what it takes to ship.

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