What we build, and how
We work inside your business, learn how it runs and build its brain, then the apps, tools and AI agents that run on it. Most clients start with one of these.
What we build
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Apps for the field
iPhone and iPad apps your crew uses on site. They work without signal and keep your records in your own systems.
Good fit if your crew fills out paper forms on site, or uses an app that quits without signal.
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Tools that do the paperwork
Estimates, proposals, reports and forms, drafted from your own prices and past work, and laid out like the ones you send now.
Good fit if someone spends evenings typing up estimates, proposals or reports.
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Apps for your customers and members
Somewhere your customers, members or staff sign in to get something done, like a check-up, a course or a booking.
Good fit if people email you for things they could do themselves.
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Work that runs on its own
The weekly job that keeps slipping, done on schedule without anyone touching it, using AI where it saves hours.
Good fit if there’s a weekly job everyone agrees matters and nobody has time for.
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Print and web from one source
Workbooks, guides and the website that goes with them, kept in one place, so you make a change once and it shows up everywhere.
Good fit if the same material lives in a PDF, a website and a binder, and they’ve started to disagree.
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Websites built to get the call
Fast sites built for the phone, so someone who finds you on Google can reach you in one tap.
Good fit if your site looks fine but the phone doesn’t ring.
Examples on request
We start on site.
Every build runs the same way, from a free first visit to the monthly plan after launch.
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We come to you
We sit with the people doing the work and watch how it gets done. If you’re not local, we start with a call.
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You see it before you pay
We map one part of your business and show you what we’d build for it, before you decide anything. That first visit costs you nothing.
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A fixed price to build
Once we both know the scope, you get a fixed price for the build, agreed before we start. There’s no hourly meter running.
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Something new every week
A private link or a test build on your phone, updated every week. Feedback often turns into a change the same day.
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You own all of it
Your brain, the code and the accounts are in your name. If it needs to live inside your own cloud, it does.
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A monthly plan
After launch, a monthly plan keeps your brain learning and everything we built running, and two people who know your business pick up when something breaks.
A typical build, week by week
Smaller tools take less. You’ll see the real plan before you sign.
- Week 1 We come in and map how the work runs
- Week 2 A first working version, on a private link
- Weeks 3–6 Built out, with a demo every week
- Week 7 Tested on cases from your business
- Week 8 Launch, then the monthly plan takes over
What people ask before we start.
What’s a company brain?
Everything your business knows, in one place you own: your customers, your prices, what was decided and what’s owed. Your team and every AI tool they use work from it, so nobody starts from zero. Every meeting and email adds to it.
What does forward-deployed mean?
We do the work inside your business, in person, next to the people who’ll use what we build. It’s how the biggest AI companies now work with their customers, and it’s the FDE in our email addresses. We do it for businesses outside tech.
Why not just use the AI built into our tools?
The AI built into a tool only knows what lives in that tool. Most of what your company knows is spread across systems, files, conversations and people’s heads. Chat history is a stream of what people said, while the brain keeps what’s current, what changed and what was decided. It works with every AI tool your team uses, including the ones you already have, and makes each of them smarter. Your chat tools are where your team talks. The brain is what your company knows.
What does it cost?
We scope it on the first visit, which is free. Every build is a fixed price, agreed before we start, whether it’s your brain or one app. After that, a monthly plan keeps it all running and improving.
How long does it take?
Most builds run six to ten weeks from the first visit to launch. You’ll see your brain working in the first couple of weeks, and something new every week after that.
We don’t know exactly what we need. Is that a problem?
No. That’s what the first visit is for. We watch how the work gets done, find where the hours go and suggest where to start. For bigger or fuzzier problems, we spend a few weeks embedded with your team before we build anything.
Who owns the brain?
You do. The brain, the code and the accounts are in your name. All we keep is the know-how.
Can you work with the systems we already have?
Usually, yes. We’ve connected a phone app to the database a homebuilder already ran on its own server, through their own Microsoft cloud account, without opening a firewall port. We’ve imported supplier price lists and contractors’ own spreadsheets, and pulled live data from YouTube, Google reviews and NOAA.
Won’t the AI make things up?
It can, so we decide up front where it gets the last word. Anything with money in it, like a price or a contract, goes past a person first, and code does the math. A devotional drafted from a church’s own sermon can publish on its own. When our software answers a question, it quotes your own documents and shows where the answer came from.
What happens after launch?
The monthly plan keeps your brain learning and everything we built running, with hosting, fixes, improvements and a direct line to us. It’s cancellable with 30 days’ notice.
Do you only work in Charleston?
Most of our clients are in Charleston and the Lowcountry, and we’ll happily drive over. If you’re not local, we start with a call. We already work remotely with a structural steel contractor in Ohio.
Three rules keep the AI honest.
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AI drafts. Code does the math. A person signs off.
An estimate’s prices are proposed by AI and totaled by code, and the contractor has the last word on every number. No price reaches a customer without the contractor’s yes.
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Answers come from your brain, with the source shown.
When an agent answers a question, it answers from your own records and points to where it found the answer. When the answer isn’t there, it says so.
Our own company brain works this way: every proposal comes with the exact words it was drawn from.
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Privacy is enforced by the database, not by a promise.
When a church should only ever see group averages, the database refuses to serve anything finer, whatever the app asks for.