TCG Software Design
Software built by one person, not a sales floor.
Custom dashboards, automation, internal tools, and websites — scoped honestly, built remotely, and handed over so you actually own what you paid for. This site itself, and the live data feeds running on it, are the portfolio.
Most small businesses run on a patchwork of spreadsheets, sticky notes, and manual copy-paste between systems that don’t talk to each other. Custom software doesn’t have to mean an expensive enterprise platform sold by a team you’ll never talk to directly — it can mean one small, focused tool that fixes the specific thing eating your team’s time every week, built by the same person who scopes it, writes it, and hands it to you.
What gets built
Six shapes this usually takes
Dashboards
Live views of the numbers that matter — sales, inventory, jobs, uptime — pulled into one place instead of five spreadsheets and a dozen browser tabs.
Automation
Removing the repetitive manual steps: data entry, report generation, file sorting, notifications. Work a computer should be doing, not a person.
Internal tools
Purpose-built apps for how your team actually works: scheduling, tracking, simple databases — instead of a bloated off-the-shelf suite you half-use.
Integrations & data cleanup
Getting systems that don’t talk to each other talking — and cleaning up the spreadsheet-and-sticky-note patchwork most small businesses actually run on.
Websites & web apps
Fast, honest, no-bloat sites and small web apps — booking tools, lookup tools, simple customer portals — built to load quick and stay maintainable.
AI-assisted tools
Practical use of AI where it actually helps — drafting, summarizing, answering questions about your own documents — not AI bolted on for the buzzword.
Not a claim — a demo you’re already looking at
This site is the portfolio
Every live number on this site — the stock indexes, the gas prices, the CISA-KEV security feed, the space-launch tracker, the tech headlines — is pulled from a real public source, refreshed on a schedule, and rendered by a build pipeline written and maintained by one person, in spare time, around a full-time job. There’s no team behind it, no agency, no template kit doing the heavy lifting.
That’s the actual point: if a solo, part-time operation can stand up and maintain a multi-source live-data platform for its own site, a scoped internal dashboard, a client-facing lookup tool, or an automation for your business is well within reach — and probably a lot less involved than what runs this one.
What’s included
- Internal tools, dashboards, and automation built around your actual workflow
- Data cleanup, reporting, and integrations between systems that don’t talk
- Clean handover with real documentation — source code included
- No vendor lock-in and no proprietary black box only I can touch
- An honest estimate up front, before any work starts
Built to be maintainable, not clever
A lot of custom software fails not because it doesn’t work on day one, but because nobody besides the original developer can touch it six months later. Everything here is built with straightforward, well-documented code, so if you ever need someone else to make a change, they can. Nothing is locked to me personally.
Scope starts small and honest: what’s the one process costing you the most time or the most mistakes right now? That’s usually where the first tool should go, before anything bigger gets discussed.
Said plainly, upfront
This is one person, project-based — not an agency
One-person, second job
Gary Amick works IT and construction during the week; software gets built evenings and weekends, by arrangement. That means limited capacity and no promise of "24/7 team," and it means direct access to the person actually writing the code — no account manager relaying messages to a developer you’ll never meet.
No guaranteed timelines
Custom software estimates are honest guesses, not contracts. Scope creep, an unexpected integration snag, or a busier week at the day job can shift a date — and you’ll be told the moment that happens, not after you’ve been waiting silently.
Remote, by arrangement
Every part of this — scoping, building, check-ins, handover — happens remotely. There’s no on-site visit built into this service, and none is needed to build or hand over software.
Not a big agency
There’s no bench of developers, no sales team, no enterprise SLA. What there is: lower overhead, plain-English answers, and a builder who has to personally stand behind whatever ships — because there’s no one else to hand it off to.
Pricing, honestly
Custom software is quoted by scope after a real conversation about what you need — there’s no fixed catalog price, because no two businesses’ workflows are identical. You approve scope and cost before anything is built, and there’s no payment taken up front.
Questions
Who am I actually working with?
One person — Gary Amick. TCG Software Design isn’t an agency with account managers and a bench of developers; it’s a single builder, working evenings and weekends by arrangement around a full-time IT and construction job. That’s a tradeoff, and it’s stated upfront rather than hidden behind a company name.
Can you really build software with just one person?
This site is the proof: the live-data dashboards under Tools and Live Data, the CISA vulnerability feed, the build pipeline behind every page here — all built and run by one person. It’s a fair sample of the kind of tool a small business actually needs.
Do you guarantee a delivery date?
No, and anyone who guarantees a firm date on custom software before scoping it is usually not being straight with you. What you get instead is an honest estimate up front, regular check-ins as it’s built, and a clear heads-up the moment something changes that timeline.
Is this remote-only?
Yes. Builds happen remotely — conversations, scoping, progress check-ins, and handover all work fine over call, message, or screen-share. There’s no on-site visit as part of this service.
Do I own what gets built?
Yes. Documentation and source are handed over cleanly at the end so you’re never dependent on one specific person to keep it running or take it elsewhere.
Is this a big software company?
No — it’s explicitly not. It’s a one-person, project-based practice. That means lower overhead and direct access to the person doing the work, and it means capacity is limited and projects are scoped to fit real availability, not oversold.
How this works, in plain terms
- This is a one-person, home-operated hobby and second job — not a full-time business or a licensed contractor. Gary works in the IT and construction field during the week; this runs evenings and weekends.
- No payment up front — you approve scope and cost before work starts, and pay when you’re satisfied.
- Everything happens remotely — no on-site visit is part of this service.
- Estimates, invoices, and documentation are available on request.
Got a repetitive process eating your week?
Tell me what it is and let’s see if it’s worth building — no pressure, no oversell.