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Custom Software Development
Applications, portals, and dashboards built for the way your operation actually works, and owned by you.
The work
What you get
When spreadsheets, shared inboxes, and a patchwork of subscriptions are holding the operation together, the answer usually isn't one more tool. We build the application your team actually needs — web, mobile, or both — connect it to the systems you already run, and stay on to host and improve it.
- Discovery with the people who will use it: workflow map, systems inventory, and success measures
- A clickable prototype before the full build is priced
- Web and mobile applications, built in short cycles with a demo at the end of each
- Integrations with payroll, HRIS, accounting, scheduling, and the other systems you already run
- Data migration from spreadsheets and legacy tools, checked against the source
- Training, documentation, and a clean handoff — the code and the data are yours
- Hosting, support, and ongoing improvement after go-live
Example builds
The systems operations actually need.
A few of the things we build most often. Yours will be shaped around your workflow, not picked from a menu.
Field scheduling apps
Shifts, routes, and coverage for distributed and mobile teams, with self-service swaps.
Operations dashboards
Live views of spend, fill rates, and program KPIs, without the Monday-morning spreadsheet.
Client and candidate portals
Self-service status, documents, and messaging for the people you serve.
Compliance trackers
Credentials, expirations, and audit trails tracked automatically, with reminders before anything lapses.
Internal tools
The approval flows, intake forms, and back-office tools your team builds workarounds for today.
Integrations
Connections between systems that don't talk to each other, so nobody keys the same data twice.
How it runs
How a build runs
- 01
Discover
We sit with the people who will use it, map the workflow and the systems it touches, and agree on what success looks like.
- 02
Prototype
You click through a working prototype before the full build is priced, so the decision rests on something real.
- 03
Build
We build in short cycles with a demo at the end of each one. You see progress as it happens, not at the finish line.
- 04
Run
We host it, support your team, and keep improving it as the operation changes. Hosting is billed at cost.
Commercial model
Fixed-fee discovery, then a fixed price for each phase
- Discovery: fixed fee, ending in a prototype and a build plan
- Build: priced phase by phase and agreed before each phase starts
- Hosting at cost; support and improvements on a flat monthly retainer
- You own the code and the data, with no per-user license fees
What we build with
Mainstream tools, on purpose.
Everything we build runs on proven, widely used technology, so any capable team can support it later, including your own.
- Web & mobile
- ReactNext.jsTypeScript
- Back end & data
- PythonPostgreSQLData warehouses
- AI
- OpenAI and Anthropic modelsVector search
- Cloud
- Microsoft Azureor the cloud you already use
- Connects to
- Payroll and HRISAccountingE-signatureEmail and text
Proof
Related outcomes
Multi-practice professional services firm
Enterprise data warehouse built end-to-end for a multi-practice firm.
National molecular & toxicology diagnostics lab
80% less turnover. 690% revenue growth in 18 months. Unparalleled partnership.
ShyftOS: Shyft6’s own recruiting system
We replaced our own recruiting CRM with ShyftOS, a system we own — the same playbook we run for clients.
Let’s talk
Ready to talk about Custom Software?
Tell us what you're working with today. We'll tell you whether this is the right starting point, and what it would take.