We make small, fast desktop and mobile apps that work without a cloud account. Your data stays on your drive. Your work continues even when the network is down. Your privacy is the default, not an upgrade.
Talk to usWe are a small studio that has been writing software for the same set of customers for many years. We focus on tools you can hand to a real person and watch them succeed inside of an hour. We do not build platforms that pretend to be everything to everyone. We build tools that finish one job well and then stay out of the way.
Our team has shipped desktop software for healthcare, hospitality, small-business retail, and event production. Our smallest customer has three employees. Our largest serves the United States Space Force community in Brevard County, Florida. Every customer gets the same craft.
We build five kinds of things and we are very good at all five:
We charge one of three ways. You pick.
| Model | What you pay | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Per-license | One payment per device | The program, updates for a year, plain-email support |
| Per-project | A fixed quote for a custom build | The custom program and the source code and a half-day handoff |
| Per-hour | An hourly rate for ongoing work | Whatever you need; we tell you the hours each Friday |
Most software made today asks you to put your data on someone else's computer. That is fine for a chat program, but it is wrong for a private business record. When your data lives on someone else's machine, you can be locked out for a billing dispute. You can be discontinued for a policy change. You can have your records read by a future owner. The local-first model treats your computer as the source of truth and treats the network as an optional helper.
The studio started as a one-person web shop in 2001 and grew into a six-person team that builds installers and small business tools for clients across the Space Coast of Florida. We have signed contracts that we honored even when the customer could not pay on time, because we knew the work would matter to them ten years out.
Yes, before the first technical conversation, on our standard template or yours.
For per-project work, you get the source code at handoff. We keep a copy for support but do not reuse it elsewhere.
Per-license customers keep using the version they paid for. Updates stop. There is no remote kill switch.
Yes, over the network. For on-site work we travel.
Occasionally for contract work. Email is the best way to ask.
Email is the fastest way to reach us. We answer in business hours, Monday through Friday, Eastern Time. For urgent issues with an active project, we publish a phone number after the contract is signed.