CUSTOM SOFTWARE / LEHIGH VALLEY, PA
Custom software for the process
your business has outgrown.
We design, build, and run software for Lehigh Valley businesses on one line, with five stations, and the two products we run ourselves came off it first.
- Stations
- FIVE, ALWAYS
- Your repository
- COMMIT ONE
- What comes off
- YOURS TO RUN
The line
Cloud Codex and quartermaster came off this line.
Below is that line: five stations, and one job that goes down all five. It arrives as something nobody has built, and it leaves in your accounts. Every station it stops at is one we put our own two products through first.
Station 01
Discovery
We follow one real request end to end, sitting with the people who actually do the work.
Station 02
Baseline
Repository, gate, and a deploy that runs on merge, all before feature one exists.
Station 03
Build
One usable slice at a time, on a real URL, in the order that removes the most manual work first.
Station 04
The gate
Lint, a build, and real browser tests. Red does not merge, and merging is the only way to production.
Station 05
Handover
Your accounts, your keys, your runbook. Nothing about leaving us is a special procedure.
Station by station
What goes in, what comes out.
Discovery
Two hours with the people doing the work, not with the managers of those people. We follow one real request from the moment it arrives to the moment it is done, and we write down every place it stalls.
Out: the job, on one pageBaseline
The repository opens in your organisation. Continuous integration, environments, and the deploy exist before the first feature, because retrofitting a pipeline onto a project that is already fragile is how projects stay fragile.
Out: a URL that deploys itselfBuild
Slices, not phases. Each one is small enough to be in real use before the next one starts, so the thing is earning its keep while it is still being built.
Out: software in useThe gate
Nothing reaches production that has not been through lint, a build, and browser tests that drive the real interface. This website goes through the same one.
Out: green, or it does not shipHandover
Keys, accounts, and a written runbook covering deploy, rollback, and key rotation, written for somebody who is not us. You can keep us on for changes or not, and neither answer costs you the software.
Out: yours to runStation 04, in detail
The gate is not a diagram. It is a file.
Everything the barrier at station 04 does is written down in this site's own repository: the same gate, the same branch model, the same deploy. Nothing reaches production that has not been through it, ours included.
The gate
lint · build · e2e
Real browser tests, not a smoke check. If the suite is red the branch does not merge, ours included.
Deploy trigger
merge to main
No console clicking, no hand-copied files. The only way to production is a merge, so the history is the deploy log.
Rollback
one commit
Reverting is the same path as shipping. Nothing about going back is a special procedure invented under pressure.
You get this too
from commit one
CI and a deploy pipeline are set up before the first feature, not bolted on when the project is already fragile.
That baseline comes from the same template we use to start our own products, so the first weeks of your engagement go into your problem, not into wiring up tooling from scratch.
What we build
Four kinds of problems we take on.
01 / Engagement
Internal tools and dashboards
The thing your team runs the business on that currently lives in a spreadsheet. We turn it into software people actually want to open.
02 / Engagement
Documentation and knowledge systems
Where process, decisions, and institutional knowledge actually stay findable, instead of scattered across chat threads and a wiki nobody updates.
03 / Engagement
Workflow automation and integrations
The handoffs between systems that people currently do by hand: retyping data, copying between tools, chasing approvals over email.
04 / Engagement
Custom platforms
Full products, built and maintained like ours. Cloud Codex and quartermaster are not demos: they are what we run our own business on.
NEXT STEP
Put something on the line.
Based in the Lehigh Valley, working with teams there and beyond.