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Software development services in St. Louis

3 things, done properly: software built for how your business actually runs, apps your customers use on the first try, and automation that removes the work nobody should be doing by hand. Fixed quote, weekly releases, and the code is yours.

01 — Custom

Custom software development

Estimating tools, portfolio dashboards, chain-of-custody systems, quoting engines. Built when the off-the-shelf product makes you work its way instead of yours.

  • TypeScript, Postgres, document generation
  • Role-based access and audit trails
  • Deployed to your cloud, your account
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02 — Web

Web & mobile app development

Ordering, booking, field work, customer portals. The kind of app that gets used on a phone, in a truck, with one hand, on bad signal.

  • React and React Native, one codebase where it fits
  • Offline-tolerant sync, real payments
  • Core Web Vitals treated as a requirement
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03 — AI

AI automation & agents

Intake triage, document extraction, quote generation, internal assistants that answer from your own data — with a human in the loop where the stakes demand one.

  • Retrieval over your documents, not a generic chatbot
  • Evaluations before rollout, logging after
  • Cost ceilings and fallbacks by design
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Where we have shipped

Industries we already know the paperwork of

Construction & trades

Bids, scoped line items, change orders and signed proposals on one spine — including photo-measure estimating for millwork.

Insurance & enterprise

Claims intake and triage, advisor onboarding and licensing, delivered inside NDA and enterprise review.

Public sector

Citizen-facing services with shared identity and case tracking across offices that did not previously share records.

Labs & instrumentation

Sample pipelines with chain-of-custody, device telemetry ingest and results that carry their own audit trail.

How an engagement runs

Scoped before it is priced. Priced before it is built.

  1. 00

    Scoping session. We map the process you actually run today, find the expensive step, and write down what "done" means.

  2. 01

    Fixed quote and date. A number, a build plan and a delivery date before any code is written.

  3. 02

    Weekly releases. Something you can open and use every week, on a real URL, not a slide.

  4. 03

    Hand over or hold. Deployed to your cloud and your accounts, with the repository in your name — or we keep running it.

Tell us the process that is costing you the most.

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