A Track Record, With the Numbers Attached

New products and modernized systems from real client projects, with the numbers as recorded at the time.

Field case management

Works without signal and never loses a record.

A county youth-services team as design partner and first client, its staff working in homes, schools and cars

CtrlCV

4 months from designed prototype to production MVP

Toronto start-up, two self-funding non-technical co-founders, a designed prototype and no engineering

AI access to an in-house system

10+ reports the business couldn’t get before

From asking one developer for every number to asking an AI assistant, on fourteen years of data

Healthcare start-up

95%+ test coverage on core logic, up from zero

Aging codebase now facing enterprise security reviews and an end-of-life stack

QHero

<12 weeks from proof of concept to production

Goal of growing from 6 to 30 hotels in two quarters

Performance-marketing company

10M requests a month at peak, with no scaling work

Revenue-critical software, every campaign click flows through it

Truity

<12 weeks for a fixed-price MVP

One-time purchase model capping customer LTV

Community and course platform

7 weeks from decision to live app

A course calendar run on phone calls, web forms and bank statements

Evolve Edits

−90% downtime incidents

Decade-old portal moving terabytes a month through one on-premise machine

Consumer platform, sensitive data

7 months for a fixed-price rebuild

Investor-promised B2B milestone blocked by the codebase

Plunjr

$10K to test the idea with a live app

App live for a year, 100+ installs a day, very few real customer calls

FanServ

5s live game-feed refresh, down from 60s

Official NBA team app serving hundreds of thousands of fans

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