Glass Effect Jacksonville, FL

The app your team actually uses, custom built to match how you work.

I build internal tools for small businesses that have outgrown a spreadsheet, or are overpaying for underused SaaS apps.

Custom built for you · Upfront, fixed price · Done in four to six weeks.

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Same jobs, same week. "Your tool" view is an example of a real app built for a real customer for their existing process.

How it works and what it costs

Four steps, with upfront pricing before each one.

No hidden costs. No modules or add-ons to buy before it does what you need. Every step produces something you keep, whether or not you carry on to the next one.

Step 1 · 30 minutes

The call

Free

Bring the spreadsheet everyone complains about, or the renewal invoice that went up again. You talk, I ask questions.

Schedule the call now
Step 2 · two weeks

The roadmap

$1,500

A written plan of your process, a clickable prototype using the steps and field names your team already uses, and a fixed quote for the build. You tell me what we should adjust. Credited in full if you go ahead.

Step 3 · 4-6 weeks

The build

$10,000 and up

Fixed price, agreed before I start, terms available. You can start using it right away, and you see updates and fixes as they happen, not at the end. A phone app for the crew is quoted with the build when the work needs one.

Step 4 · ongoing

Running it

$750 a month and up

Hosting, nightly backups, support and small changes as the work changes. Changes come straight to me. There's no support queue. Cancel with 30 days notice.

The platform

You don't need a platform that tries to do everything for everyone.

Those tools are built for every company at once, so somebody at yours has to spend months turning it into something that fits. Then somebody has to keep it fitting: permissions, workflows, fields, the training when it changes. In a company of thirty that's a full time job, and the person who ends up doing it was usually hired to do something else.

A tool built around your process doesn't need any of that. It has the screens your team uses and no others. Nothing to configure, nobody to administer it, no training day. Your work goes smoother, because nobody has to spend time learning how to make the app work.

If you have team members who work in the field, they get a real mobile app, built for the phone, that works with no signal and catches up when it finds one. Not a website squeezed onto a screen. I've built native iOS and Android apps for 18 years, and it's quoted alongside the build when the work needs it.

Bring the invoices for any SaaS platforms to our initial call, and we'll count up what you're paying to manage software.

Built so far

Every project is somebody's own process, so there's no demo library.

Here's what my first customer did.

Live event broadcast company · 30 staff

Crews ran shows off a shared spreadsheet and a printed checklist that got marked up on site and typed back in the next morning. The producer couldn't tell what was ready without phoning someone.

Now the checklist for each show lives in the app, it records who signed off on what, and the producer sees every job on one screen. It matches how they already ran shows, so there was nothing to set up, nobody to administer it, and no training day. Six weeks from first call to first show.

Fit

When not to call me.

Better to find this out before either of us spends too much time.

Show me the spreadsheet.

Send me the file, or forward the renewal invoice. Thirty minutes on a call and I'll tell you whether it's worth replacing, and I'll tell you if it isn't.