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Custom software development and AI consulting for Austin companies
Austin companies grow fast and automate early, which is how a business ends up running on forty Zaps that one person built two years ago and nobody dares touch. We build the custom software, integrations, and AI agents that replace that, inside the systems you already run, fixed fee, and you own the code. On site in Austin, two and a half hours from our Houston base.
The "it worked until it didn't" stage
The pattern we see in Austin more than anywhere else in Texas: an operations company, often in construction, manufacturing, distribution, or services along the I-35 corridor, that automated its early workflows in Zapier or Make, hired people, added systems, and now has a chain of automations that breaks weekly, costs more per month than it should, and touches billing and dispatch in ways nobody fully understands.
That stage is a good problem to have. It means the workflows are real and the volume is there. It also means the next step is not another Zap. It is custom software you own, with AI where the job needs judgment and a person on the exceptions.
Custom software development for Austin operations companies
Integrations you own. We map what every existing automation does, rebuild the ones worth keeping as code in your cloud account, retire the rest, and run both in parallel before switching. No platform of ours in the middle. Custom software and integrations →
AI agents for the back office. AP capture, AR follow-up, intake and scheduling, quoting, the weekly owner report, built inside QuickBooks, your FSM or ERP, and your inbox, with approval steps on anything that moves money. AI agents →
The visibility layer. Margin by job or lane, cash, utilization, from every system into one page. The number the owner asks for on Monday, without the spreadsheet.
Who this is for in Austin
Construction and trades along I-35. Commercial and residential contractors running Procore, ServiceTitan, or Jobber with QuickBooks behind them, where the estimate-to-invoice gap and the phone are the two biggest leaks.
Manufacturing and distribution. Shops and distributors in Round Rock, Georgetown, and San Marcos with an ERP, a shipping system, and a CRM that were never connected, and an owner who wants margin by product line without a spreadsheet.
Services companies that grew up on SaaS. The firm with a CRM, a billing tool, a project tool, and a support tool, each good, none talking, and a Zapier bill that keeps climbing.
What they have in common is that the next hire was going to be a person to move data between systems. That is the job we give to software.
When Zapier, Make, or n8n isn't enough
Sometimes it is enough, and we say so. It stops being enough when the flow has ten steps, when a system has no connector, when the data is sensitive, when per-task pricing outruns the cost of hosting, or when nobody is accountable at 6 a.m. We wrote a comparison for operators, not developers. Zapier vs Make vs n8n vs custom →
How we decide what to build first
A two-day AI Readiness Assessment at your Austin operation. Day one, we walk the workflows with the people who do them and inventory every automation you have. Day two, we score every candidate on P&L impact and risk and hand you a ranked backlog you keep. Then we build the top item in two weeks. If it misses the mark, you don't pay for the build.
From $10,000, credited in full against your first workstream. Prices verified September 2026. Book your assessment
Proof
A Houston trucking company tracked 600 to 700 import containers a month by hand. We built a monitoring agent inside their TMS, their tracking provider, and Microsoft Teams; a person now handles only the exceptions, and they own the system. A Houston security and IT contractor ran five disconnected systems reconciled by hand; we connected them.
Founder-built by Jonathan Klein and Chip Ray, based in Houston. Insured: cyber liability, technology E&O, and general liability.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. The two-day assessment is done in person in Austin, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Pflugerville, San Marcos, and the surrounding area. Build work is remote with on-site days as needed.
Yes. Mapping and migrating an existing automation stack is one of the most common first workstreams we do in Austin. We run old and new in parallel before switching anything off.
The assessment starts at $10,000 and is credited against the first build. Build workstreams are fixed-fee, $10,000 to $70,000, quoted before work starts. Managed plans run $600 to $2,200 a month.
You do. Source, data, and cloud accounts are yours from day one.