Custom software development: senior engineers for the software your business runs on.
SENIOR ENGINEERS
FOR THE SOFTWARE
YOUR BUSINESS RUNS ON.
Custom software for a specific job: a legacy rewrite, a new feature, an integration, or a ground-up build. We scope it with you, build it, and hand it over. Based on Long Island, working with businesses across the US.
Build something newA focused tool or a full product, scoped and delivered in working pieces.
Move an existing system forwardA legacy rewrite, an integration, or the next feature in your own codebase.
Take a task off your plateAn automation, a reporting tool, or a focused fix for a process that keeps slowing you down.
Start with one integration, one report, or one workflow. Every project starts with an agreed scope, deliverables, and cost. We handle the build and hand over the code and accounts. Further work is scoped separately.
Your business. A whole new way to work.
An old order desk becomes a clearer way to work. An original software concept with fictional orders. Scroll to see the rebuild.
OUTGROWN.REBUILT.
ORDERS_BACKUP_FINAL_2.xls
RE: delivery details
Can you send that address again?
I have a different version here.
MERIDIAN SUPPLY — Order Manager 98_ □ ×
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ORDER ENTRYLOCAL DATABASE / OFFICE-PC
Customer ID ALL____________Filter OPEN ORDERS___
ORDERCUSTOMERTOTALNOTES
1048HARBOR HOUSE$13,800CALL TO BOOK
1049NORTHLINE STUDIO$4,240ADDR MISSING
1050CEDAR WORKSHOP$2,160CALL TO BOOK
1051MOSS & MAIN$3,680CALL TO BOOK
Before the truck leaves:Which orders are actually ready?
KEEP THE RECORDS. REBUILD THE WAY YOU WORK.
MERIDIANOrder desk / TodayJD
Orders 4CustomersDeliveriesDocumentsONE PLACE. THE WHOLE PICTURE.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
Let’s get it moving.
4 open orders
3 ready to schedule1 needs your attention
4 original orders. All accounted for.Customer history stays attached.
ORDER 1048Harbor House
Natural slate
$13,800CALL TO BOOK
HH
Harbor HouseOrder #1048 · Natural slate
$13,800Ready to schedule
ORDER 1049Northline Studio
Oak flooring
$4,240ADDR MISSING
NS
Northline StudioOrder #1049 · Oak flooring
$4,240Address needed
ORDER 1050Cedar Workshop
Birch panels
$2,160CALL TO BOOK
CW
Cedar WorkshopOrder #1050 · Birch panels
$2,160Ready to schedule
ORDER 1051Moss & Main
Wall tile
$3,680CALL TO BOOK
MM
Moss & MainOrder #1051 · Wall tile
$3,680Ready to schedule
4 / 4YOUR ORDERS. STILL YOUR ORDERS.
Same business. New possibilities.
THE OLD WAY
Good business. Software holding it back.
Orders in one system. Delivery details in an inbox. The next step in somebody’s head.
WHAT COMES WITH YOU
Keep what matters.
The customers. The orders. The details you’ve built up. A new system shouldn’t mean starting over.
THE REBUILD
Give it a better home.
Bring customer information and the next action together, in a tool shaped around the work.
THE NEW WAY
Open it. Know what’s next.
Three orders ready to schedule. One missing an address. Nothing lost. Nothing hidden.
SCROLL TO REBUILD
FICTIONAL BUSINESS · ORIGINAL CONCEPT
The work stays yours. The workarounds go.
This is the kind of project we take on: replace an outdated tool, bring scattered work together, and hand over software built around your business.
Manufacturers, distributors, medical offices, logistics, and any business running on software it has outgrown, on Long Island or anywhere in the US. If the system is critical and creaky, that’s our lane.
Legacy rescue
The system from 2009 the whole shop depends on. Legacy system modernization means taking stock of what works, keeping it, and rebuilding the rest on ground that will hold. Your data migrates across, and the old system stays up until the new one has earned its place.
New features
Your software mostly works. It just can’t do the next thing. We add to what you have, in old codebases and new ones: a new module, a report the office has been doing by hand, an integration that finally makes two systems talk to each other through their APIs. We plan the change around the parts your business already depends on.
Ground-up builds
The tool you wish existed for your operation. Scoped tight, built by senior hands, and delivered in working pieces you can try as they land.
Who you get
Four decades of engineering, two brothers at the core.
KraigFounder
Family owned and operatedAdamLead engineer
Kraig founded the shop and is the engineer who answers when you call. He’s spent his career building software for startups and enterprises, and now builds it through the family business.
Adam leads the engineering. Between them the brothers have built for enterprise, finance, healthcare, and startups. Cloud native on Azure and AWS, full stack from the database to the screen, and fluent in twenty-year-old codebases and in whatever shipped last month.
Built through our careers. Brought to your project.
Our experience comes from software delivered for employers: legacy rewrites and new systems built from the ground up across multiple sectors. Much of that work isn’t public. The examples on this site are original concepts that show what we can build; they aren’t client case studies. Now we bring that engineering experience to directly scoped projects for businesses like yours.
Small at the core, on purpose. We take your project from scope to handoff. When a build needs the bench, the engineers who join have shipped with us before and work the way we do. The people you meet are the people who build it.
Four decades combined
Cloud native
Azure and AWS
Based in Shoreham, working across the US. On Long Island, we can also meet in person across Suffolk and Nassau County.
How a software build runs
WORK ORDERRAU TECH
No.What happensWho’s on
01You write in about the system. What it does, where it hurts. A short message is plenty.Who’s on: You
02We talk, in person if you’re on Long Island. You get the engineer who will write the code, not a sales rep.Who’s on: Both
03We scope the heart of it and lay out the build in pieces, the most important piece first. You decide before the build starts.Who’s on: Both
04The first piece lands working and you try it. The rest lands the same way, nothing held back for a big reveal.Who’s on: You
05We hand it over. The code and the keys are yours. If you need maintenance or another feature later, we scope that separately.Who’s on: Both
We agree on deliverables, cost, and a plan for the build before starting. Support after launch is optional and agreed separately. The first step is a conversation, not a contract.
You do. The code, the repos, the cloud accounts, and the keys are yours, whether or not we stay on. Nothing is licensed to you and nothing is locked to us. If we stopped working together tomorrow, another engineer could pick up the repo and keep going. That is the point of building it this way.
How much does custom software cost?
It depends on the system, which is why we do not print a number. What moves it: how much of the old system has to come across, how many people use it and how, and whether it has to talk to other software you already run. We agree on the scope, deliverables, and cost before work starts. A single feature or integration can be a project of its own.
Should we rewrite the system or keep patching it?
Patch it while patching costs less than the trouble it saves. That stops being true when every small change takes a week, when nobody left knows how a part of it works, or when the operating system or database under it has gone out of support. Even then the answer is rarely one big rewrite. It is rebuilding the worst piece first and cutting over while the rest keeps running.
Do you work with companies outside New York?
Yes. The shop is in Shoreham on Long Island and the software work runs anywhere in the US. Most of a build happens on calls, shared screens, and the repo, and that part is the same whether you are down the road or across the country. Being on the Island only means you can also get us in the room.
Can a two-person shop handle a build this size?
Yes, and you should ask. The two of us scope and lead every build, and we bring in senior engineers we’ve worked beside for years when a build needs more hands. Nobody junior learns on your dime and nothing goes overseas. The code and the keys are yours the whole time, so you are never stuck with us.
How do you handle continuity and handover?
You own the code and the accounts. Two of us know every build, and the engineers we bring in have worked with us before. We plan the handover when we scope the work. Any support after that is agreed separately.
Do you maintain the software after it launches?
Yes, from the same hands that built it. Care covers fixing what breaks, making the changes the business needs as it changes, and building the next piece when it comes up. It is quoted and billed on its own, separate from the build, so the build price stays the build price.
Do you sign NDAs?
Yes. Send yours over before we talk about the system and we will sign it. What you tell us about your operation stays between us.
Start a conversation
Tell us what needs to work.
A feature, an older system, or something new. A few lines are enough to start.