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Custom software development in St. Louis

You have a process that works and a stack of tools that does not fit it. We build the thing that fits: the estimating sheet that becomes a signed proposal, the dashboard that replaces nine spreadsheets, the intake that stops being re-typed three times.

Estimating & quoting

Scoped line items, labor rates, cushion and markup, change orders — emitted as a client-ready document with the same numbers on the invoice as on the quote.

Operations dashboards

Units, vendors, jobs, draws, documents. One screen that answers what currently takes three phone calls, with role-based access per team.

Intake & case tracking

Every channel writing to one record, scored and routed to the right desk, with status that means the same thing to everyone who reads it.

Integrations

The POS, the accounting package, the supplier portal and the spreadsheet somebody maintains by hand — reconciled into one source of truth.

Engineering

Boring stack, deliberately

Language
TypeScript, end to end
Data
Postgres, migrations in git
Docs
Server-side PDF generation
Access
Role-based, audited writes
Hosting
Your cloud, your accounts
Handover
Repo in your org, runbook included
Proof

Three builds that look like this

Plant-based kitchen

Vegan Pot

A plant-based kitchen maintaining the same dish in three places — the website, the allergen sheet and the weekly subscription plan — with the three copies frequently out of sync.

Construction

Galve Development Group

A construction group whose bids were built by copying and editing the previous project's spreadsheet, leaving no reliable record of how a signed proposal's numbers were derived.

Real estate ops

Deloya Group

A real estate operator with ten years of property, vendor and draw history, none of it in a single system.

Questions people actually ask

How much does custom software cost in St. Louis?

A focused internal tool typically runs $12,000–$35,000. A platform with several user roles, integrations and document generation runs $45,000–$120,000+. Every engagement opens with a paid scoping session ($2,500–$6,000) that produces the fixed quote.

Do I own the code?

Yes. The repository is created in your organization and the infrastructure runs in your cloud accounts. There is no license to keep paying us for — if you stop working with us, nothing turns off.

When is custom software the wrong answer?

When an off-the-shelf product already fits your process within about ten percent. We will say so in the scoping session and point you at the product instead.

How long does a build take?

Four to eight weeks from signed quote to production for a focused tool; three to six months for a platform, released weekly rather than in one launch.

Bring the spreadsheet everyone is afraid to break.

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