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Build internal tools that fit your team — not the other way around.

A dedicated, forward-deployed product team. Bespoke internal tools designed, built, and shipped in weeks, owned by you, made for how your team actually works.

Previously built and shipped

Product Signals

Founded · Acquired by ClientSuccess, 2024

Rent Kit

Live · $1M+/yr in transactions

Devslopes

Founding team · 400K+ students

The problem

Most internal tooling is duct tape on a SaaS subscription.

Most companies solve their internal tooling problem one of three ways. All three keep the meter running.

Hire a dev team

Six months to ramp, full-time costs, slow to ship.

Hand it to an agency

A telephone game between you and a team that doesn't know your business.

Buy more SaaS

Every tool 80% right. Subscriptions stack up to thousands a month.

There's a fourth option.

The math

One-time build. Forever yours.

Numbers below are illustrative for a typical 50–150 person company. Yours will be different — usually bigger.

Today — your stitched-together stack

BI dashboard tool$1,200/mo
Workflow automation$800/mo
Internal CRM add-ons$1,400/mo
AI document tools$650/mo
Form & data builders$420/mo
Annual cost$54,840

Tomorrow — built once, owned forever

Bespoke internal tool$45K once
Hosting & AI APIs~$300/mo
Optional retainer$4K/mo
You own the codeforever
Tailored to workflow100%
Year 1 cost$48,600

Year 2 onward the math compounds — ~$3,600/yr in hosting versus $54,840+/yr in subscriptions, growing every renewal cycle. Most clients break even within 12 months.

How we work together

Three ways in. Designed to ladder.

Most engagements start with a discovery sprint and grow into a build. A retainer comes after, only if you want one.

01 · Entry point

Discovery sprint

A 1–2 week audit. Map the workflows, total up your SaaS spend, and walk away with a prioritized roadmap.

From$5K
Most engagements

02 · Core work

Build engagement

4–12 weeks. Fixed scope, fixed price. A fitted tool that replaces the SaaS stack — and keeps fitting as you grow.

Typical$25K–$80K

03 · Long-term

Retainer

Optional. Monthly capacity for upkeep, small features, and incremental rollouts. A long-term partner without a full-time hire.

From$4K/mo

What an engagement looks like

Working software, every week.

01

Discovery call

30 minutes. Free. We figure out together if there's a fit.

02

Audit and spec

I dig into your workflows and the SaaS you're paying for, and write the spec. Fixed scope, fixed fee.

03

Clarity first

You'll know what you're getting before a line of code is written. Sometimes that's pixel-perfect screens, sometimes a sketch or a shared doc. Whatever gets us aligned fastest.

04

Build in the open

Weekly demos, working software every Friday. You're in the loop the whole way.

05

Hand off the keys

Production, docs, training. You own the code from day one.

Why this works

A product team of one, embedded in yours.

Most consultants specialize in one part of the loop. Strategy without execution. Engineers without design instincts. Designers who don't ship.

I've been fortunate to spend my career across all three: product management, design, and full-stack engineering. That breadth is what lets me sit in the discovery meeting, write the spec, design the screens, and ship the code without losing context in a handoff.

For the length of the engagement, we operate like a small product team — your operators and one embedded builder, working on the same problem.

Featured work

Product Signals

Internal collaboration tool · Founded → Built → Acquired

Case study

A platform that helped customer success, sales, and product teams collaborate around customer feedback and quantify the impact of net-new features. Built zero-to-one. Acquired by ClientSuccess in 2024.

Customers

Flatfile, Class, Bonusly

Stack

Node, React, GCP

Outcome

Acquired, 2024

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Build something that fits.

No deck, no pitch. 30 minutes. We'll talk through your stack and figure out together whether this is a fit.

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