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Custom tools for the way you work.

Customer portals, web applications, and internal tools for Portland-area businesses and remote clients, built by an independent Greater Portland studio. Complete first releases start at $7,500. Smaller backend and integration projects receive a separate scope and quote before development.

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A starting point for your budget.

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Custom software

A focused portal, internal tool, or web application built around your workflow.

From$7,500/ project

  • One defined core workflow
  • Interface design and backend development
  • Agreed databases, accounts, permissions, and integrations
  • Deployment, documentation, and handover

A starting budget for a complete, focused first release. Smaller backend and integration projects receive their own scope and quote. Migration, third-party costs, and ongoing application support are agreed separately.

Discuss this package

All prices are in USD. Starting prices cover the scope listed; your written proposal confirms the final price, payment schedule, and any third-party costs before work begins.

The outcome

Spend less time copying information, chasing updates, and working around tools that don’t fit.

What the work can include

What goes into the work.

01

Product discovery

Workflow mapping, user needs, risk, constraints, and a deliberately bounded first release.

02

Interface design

Clear working surfaces designed around real decisions and tasks rather than generic dashboard conventions.

03

Backend development & integrations

Custom databases, customer accounts, permissions, subscription billing, payment workflows, and connections between your business tools.

04

Application support

A separately quoted support plan for your application’s systems, monitoring, maintenance, and response needs. New workflows and larger changes receive their own scope.

A strong fit when

Does this sound like your business?

  • A critical workflow depends on manual copying, coordination, or follow-up.
  • Off-the-shelf tools create more work than they remove.
  • Customers or staff need a focused portal or self-service experience.
  • A strong product idea needs a disciplined path to a usable first release.

How we work

Know what happens next.

  1. 01

    Map

    Understand the people, workflow, edge cases, systems, and decisions the product must support.

  2. 02

    Reduce

    Cut the first release to the smallest complete product that proves value without creating a dead end.

  3. 03

    Build

    Design and engineer the product in working slices, keeping reliability and usability visible.

  4. 04

    Learn

    Use product behavior and team feedback to prioritize the next useful improvement.

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