Mutual Prosperity,
or No Deal
A partnership only works if it puts more money in your pocket than it takes out. So before we take anyone on, we work out whether what we would build pays for itself. When the honest answer is no, we say so, and we do not take the job.
Three Things We Will Not Trade Away
These are the standards we hold to on every engagement, and the reason we turn some work down.
Technology You Own
Most software is now sold in a shape that keeps you paying forever. We build the other kind. You hold the keys, your data sits on hardware you control, and nothing we install has to phone home for permission to run.
Conversations Over Contracts
When something goes sideways you want someone who picks up the phone and works it out with you, not a vendor reading you a clause. We put the agreement in writing because that is only fair. Then we act like the handshake is the part that counts.
The Win-Win Standard
We would rather profit from your growth than from your problems. That shapes the pricing. We do not bill per person, and we do not earn more when your systems break. The work has to pay for itself or we have not done our job.
The People You Will Actually Talk To
Three of us run this, and you will know which one to call.
Ian designs the plan. He works out what your business needs to run, what you should own outright, and what order to replace things in so nothing breaks while you switch. He also keeps this company steady enough to still be here in ten years.
Angel builds the systems people actually use. Scheduling, invoicing, payroll, and the paperwork that has to get done, shaped around how your business already works. A process the people doing the work cannot follow is not a process, so she tests it before it reaches your team.
Michael builds and runs the technology. Servers, networks, and backups, automated so changes are reviewed instead of improvised, and watched so problems surface before you notice them. He will not patch over what is broken underneath, and he builds on open source so the foundation stays yours.
Built in Bethel,
Maine
We live here, and we work from here.
Bethel sits in western Maine, about twenty minutes from the New Hampshire line and an hour and a half from either Portland or the Rangeley lakes. If you are in that stretch and want someone standing in your server closet, we'll be there. Most of the work does not need anyone in the room, so distance is not a limit. We support clients across the country.
Businesses do better when they own what they run on. A subscription renews whether or not it earned its keep that month, and at the end of it you own nothing you did not own before. We would rather build you something that is yours and hand you the keys to it.
"We want independent businesses standing on their own two feet. That is the whole job."
Let's See If We're the Right Fit.
The free audit is where we both find out. We will tell you what your current setup costs, what owning it instead would cost, and whether we are the right people for the job. Sometimes the answer to that last one is no.