TCG Software Works · custom builds for small businesses
Custom software for small businesses that have outgrown a spreadsheet but haven't earned a SaaS bill the size of payroll. Dashboards, internal tools, automations, AI workflows, integrations between the systems you already use. Fixed-price after scoping. You own the source on day one.
Patterns I've shipped enough times to flat-price. Yours will look different in the details — same skeleton, your data, your workflow, your branding.
"Here's where everything stands today." Pulls from QuickBooks / Stripe / Google Sheets / your POS / your CRM, normalizes the numbers, shows the 5-7 metrics you actually look at every morning. Mobile-friendly. Auth-gated. Hosted on your domain.
Dashboard details →Inbound email triage, attachment classification, invoice extraction, auto-reply drafting (operator-reviewed), CRM ingestion. Built on Python + LangChain with local Ollama for privacy-sensitive jobs.
Automation details →Connect the tools you already use. QuickBooks <-> CRM, scheduling app <-> SMS, e-commerce <-> shipping label printer. Webhook-driven, retried-on-failure, audit-logged so you can prove what happened when the customer asks.
Integration details →Replaces the shared Excel file someone keeps overwriting. Multi-user editing with audit history, role-based access, search, exports, mobile-friendly forms. Hosted on a subdomain with TLS.
Internal-tool details →"Read this PDF, extract these 7 fields, file it here, alert me if X." Built on LangChain or LangGraph with multi-provider failover. Local Ollama where data sensitivity demands it; hosted models when speed wins.
AI workflow details →Marketing sites, lead-capture forms wired to your real backend, blog/news with editorial workflow, SEO-clean. Same stack this site is built on — HTML/CSS/JS or React + Netlify + a small backend on the TCG fabric.
Public-site details →Field-staff portal that works on a phone in a parking lot — clock in, photo upload, GPS-stamp, signature capture, daily-briefing view. Offline-tolerant; syncs when connectivity returns.
Field-portal details →"Email me the weekly summary every Monday at 7 a.m." Pulls live data, renders a clean PDF (or HTML email), drops it in your inbox. Includes a deep-link to the live dashboard for anyone who wants to dig in.
Reporting details →Four phases. Each phase has a deliverable. You can stop the project at any phase boundary and walk away with what's been built so far — no clawback, no lawsuit, no vendor lock-in.
60-90 minutes. We work through what the tool actually needs to do, what data it touches, who uses it, and what "done" looks like. You get a written scope at the end.
Clickable wireframe / API contract / data model. Fixed-price quote with a not-to-exceed cap. You approve before any production code is written.
Weekly demo on a staging URL you can poke at. Findings logged. Scope changes go through a written change-order so the price stays predictable.
Production deploy. Documentation handoff (architecture, ops runbook, credentials). 30 days of bug fixes included. After that, you can keep me on retainer or hand the code to another shop — it's yours.
Python · TypeScript · JavaScript · SQL · Bash · PowerShell · VBA when the legacy demands it
LangChain · LangGraph · Ollama for on-prem · Anthropic + OpenAI + Google for hosted · multi-provider failover · embeddings · RAG over your docs
Node + Express · Python + Flask / FastAPI · PostgreSQL · SQLite (when small wins) · Redis caching · Docker
React + Vite · vanilla HTML / CSS where it's faster · Tailwind · static-first deploys via Netlify or Cloudflare Pages
Netlify · Cloudflare Pages · Cloudflare Tunnel · Caddy · NSSM Windows-service mgmt · on-prem TCG fabric for sensitive workloads
pytest · Jest · Playwright · staging URL on every build · restore-tested backups before launch · load test with k6 when traffic matters
Single-purpose dashboard, simple automation, one integration. 1-2 weeks.
Multi-user internal tool, CRUD app with auth, AI-assisted workflow, multi-source dashboard. 3-5 weeks.
Ongoing changes, feature requests, integration tweaks. Used after a build ships, billed against a monthly cap.
501(c)(3) within service area. Code TCG26FREE. Hosting and any third-party API costs not included.