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Custom web apps.
Software your customers and your team live in.
Customer portals, online products, and internal tools, built around the way your business actually works instead of the way an off-the-shelf vendor assumes it should.
Shepyrd · Est. 2026
The work that runs your business shouldn't depend on three spreadsheets and someone's memory.
Built to fit
● What we make
Most projects combine two or three of these.
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Software your customers and your team live in.
Customer portals, online products, and internal tools, built around the way your business actually works instead of the way an off-the-shelf vendor assumes it should.
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Your software in your customers' pockets.
Apps for iPhone and Android, built for the phone itself rather than a shrunken-down version of your website.
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Connect what you have. Automate what you do.
We make the tools you already use talk to each other, so the same information stops getting typed in three times.
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Workflows that run themselves, not chatbots for show.
We wire your tools, your data, and AI into routines that handle the repetitive work, leaving people for the parts that actually need judgement.
● What the right system gives back
The jobs that used to eat a whole afternoon now happen in the background. Across a team, that adds up to a full hire's worth of time every few months.
Re-typing data, copy-paste slips, dropped handoffs: the system catches them before they turn into a bill.
Not stuck in one person's head or a folder nobody can find. When they're on holiday, the work still runs.
Built around the way your team really works, so people reach for it because it makes them faster, not because they were told to.
Handles a hundred records today and a hundred thousand later, with no painful rebuild two years down the line.
Your code, your data, your accounts. No lock-in, no per-seat fees creeping up every year. You can take it elsewhere whenever you want.
● How the work moves
Phase 01
We shadow the work as it happens. Where the hours go, where the mistakes get made.
What this looks like
● Common questions
Off-the-shelf makes your business bend to fit the software. Custom software does the opposite: it's built around the way your team already works. It costs more up front, but there are no per-seat fees climbing every year, and no "we don't support that" when you ask for a change.
Replacing a spreadsheet usually takes three to six weeks. Replacing older software is four to eight, depending on how much data is involved. We agree on a launch date before any work starts.
We price by project, set after a first call. Spreadsheet replacements usually land in the low-to-mid five figures, and bigger software replacements in the mid-to-high five figures. The price is fixed up front: no hourly billing, no surprise invoices.
Yes, that's usually a must. Most systems we build sit alongside your existing tools (accounting, CRM, calendar, email) and keep them in sync. We map out every connection during planning, before we build.
You own the code and the accounts. You can bring in any developer to make changes, or stay with us on a smaller monthly plan. The system isn't locked behind our doors. It's yours.
TypeScript across the board (Next.js, Node, and a database like Postgres), hosted on whatever fits your scale (Vercel, AWS, or your own cloud). We pick based on your team and the job, not on what we feel like using.
We reply within one business day — usually the same morning.