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Custom software development and AI consulting in Dallas–Fort Worth
DFW is where freight changes hands: the intermodal yards and distribution centers around Alliance, the air cargo at DFW, and the carriers, brokers, and 3PLs that serve them. It is also one of the largest trades markets in the country. We build custom software, integrations, and AI agents for the companies doing that work, inside the systems they already run, fixed fee, and you own the code.
The DFW operations problem
In logistics and distribution, the systems are the TMS or WMS, the telematics, the customer portals, and the accounting system, and the gap between them is a dispatcher or a billing clerk re-keying. In the trades, it is the FSM, the phone that rings during a job, and the estimate that takes a week to become an invoice.
There is a third shape we see more in DFW than elsewhere: the firm that has appointed an "AI champion," bought a few licenses, and has no framework for deciding what to build, what data can go where, or who is accountable when it breaks. That firm needs a ranked plan and governance before it needs another tool.
Custom software development for DFW companies
Logistics and distribution. Check-call and status agents, rate-con and BOL extraction into the TMS, container and PO tracking, driver-document capture, AR follow-up, the weekly owner report. Inside TruckMate, McLeod, Vizion, Motive, Samsara, QuickBooks, and your customers' portals. Trucking and logistics →
Trades and field service. An AI receptionist wired into ServiceTitan, Jobber, or Housecall Pro; estimate-to-invoice; the four-way reconciliation across FSM, spend, payroll, and books. Trades and field service →
AI agents and governance for any operations company. The twelve back-office agents we build most, each with its P&L line, plus the documentation and rules that let an AI champion say yes safely. AI agents →
What DFW logistics work looks like
Intermodal and drayage out of the rail yards, with container and chassis tracking across the railroad's portal, the customer's portal, and the TMS. Distribution centers with a WMS that does not talk to the carrier's system, so appointment scheduling and dock status live in email. Regional carriers with telematics data that never makes it back to the TMS for trip costing. Brokers with an email-to-bid workflow that a person runs by hand all day.
Each of those is an agent or an integration with a P&L line: demurrage and per-diem, dock hours, trip-cost accuracy, bids answered. The pattern we built for a Houston port carrier moves to the DFW yards with the portals swapped out.
The assessment, on site in DFW
A two-day AI Readiness Assessment at your operation in Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Irving, Plano, Frisco, Denton, or the surrounding area. Day one, we walk the workflows with the people who do them. 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
For the firm with an AI champion and no framework
The assessment doubles as the framework. The ranked backlog tells the champion what to build first and why. The governance notes tell the firm what data can go to which AI provider, where a person must approve, and what the documentation should say if a customer or insurer asks. We write that documentation in a form aligned to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, which is the standard Texas's AI law points to. The champion gets to say yes with a plan behind it instead of a license count.
Proof
A Houston trucking company tracked 600 to 700 import containers a month by checking port and steamship-line websites by hand. We built a monitoring agent inside their TMS, their tracking provider, and Microsoft Teams; dispatch gets a daily digest, a person handles only the exceptions, and they own the system. The same pattern applies to intermodal and drayage work out of the DFW yards.
Founder-built by Jonathan Klein and Chip Ray, based in Houston, on site in DFW. Insured: cyber liability, technology E&O, and general liability.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. The two-day assessment is in person anywhere in the Metroplex. Build work is remote with on-site days as needed. Houston to DFW is a short flight or a morning's drive.
Logistics, distribution, and intermodal; residential and commercial contractors; manufacturing and industrial firms; and any operations-heavy company whose systems do not talk.
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 transfer to you. If we disappeared tomorrow, the system would keep running.