Custom software · Ontario
The admin work is eating your week.
Most websites are a brochure.
I build yours to do the work — booking, intake, quotes, records — so the busywork stops living in your phone and your head.
Where the hours go
You are the system
The schedule lives in your phone, the quotes live in your email, and the balances live in your head. It works until it doesn’t, and it fails on the busiest week.
The same work, every time
Every job starts with the same lookups, the same forms, the same copy-paste. Nothing you did last week makes this week faster.
Software that doesn’t fit
Off-the-shelf tools are built for a business that isn’t yours. You end up working around the software instead of the software working around you.
Built for my own shop
The diagnostics tool
I run a mobile automotive diagnostics business. The worst part of the job was never the diagnosis — it was the research before it. Cross-referencing OEM part numbers, checking fitment against the exact year, make, model, and trim, catching supersessions across several sources. For a single job that regularly ran an hour.
So I built the tool I needed. It pulls VIN-grounded fitment data, tags every part number by how confident the source is, and puts the result in front of me as a two-minute read. Same information, same rigour, without the hour of tab-switching.
It handles the rest of the job too: intake, estimates with a full version history, and the money — every amount stored as whole cents, every estimate revision recorded and unchangeable after the fact, because Ontario's repair rules require that paper trail.
I built it because I needed it. It's the same kind of software I build for other people.
How this works
What this costs
Site
$2,400
A custom-built marketing site with booking that actually works, so enquiries land as appointments instead of emails you have to chase.
- Not a template
- A content editor, so you can change your own copy without calling me
- A booking link that works
- Loads fast and works on a phone
- Two rounds of revisions. Hosting and domain stay in your accounts, in your name
Site + Operations
$2,400 + $180/month
Everything in Site, plus a private admin area built around how your business actually runs.
- Intake
- Scheduling
- Client records
- Balances
- Monthly covers hosting, backups, and changes as the business changes
Operations only
$900 setup + $180/month
Already have a website you're happy with? I build just the operations side and connect it to what you have.
- Intake
- Scheduling
- Client records
- Balances
- Connects to the website you already have
Fixed price, agreed before I start. If the scope changes, we agree the change in writing before any work happens.
Data handling
How your customers’ data is handled
The public site and your customer records are separate systems. Your marketing site is scanned by bots every day of the week. Your client records are not on it — they live on a separate, password-protected deployment. A problem with one doesn’t reach the other.
Your customers’ records are never sent to AI services. The tools I build may use AI for research and drafting, like the parts-lookup tool in the case study above — never to store or send your customers’ names, contact details, or records.
Encrypted in transit and at rest, on managed infrastructure with automatic backups — not a computer under a desk that can fail or be stolen.
Deletion on request. If one of your customers asks you to remove their information, there’s a way to do it, and it actually removes it.
Different businesses carry different obligations. What you’re allowed to store, for how long, and whose permission you need can vary by industry — consent and retention rules are two examples. I find out what applies to your business at the start, not add it in after someone asks.
Get in touch
Start a conversation
Tell me what your week looks like and where the hours go.
If I can help, I’ll tell you how. If I can’t, I’ll tell you that too.
Prefer to talk? Book a call directly.
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