Custom business apps, handled for you

Custom Apps Built Around the Way Your Business Actually Works

Stop forcing your business into software that almost fits. I design, build, host, secure, back up, maintain, and improve custom web applications made for your real workflow.

  • Built around your process
  • Hosted and maintained for you
  • Secure, backed up, and updated
  • One person accountable from build to support
Before
  • Spreadsheets
  • Email chains
  • Manual follow-ups
  • Double entry
  • Disconnected tools
After
  • One custom app
  • Clear dashboards
  • Simple forms
  • Automated reminders
  • Reports you can trust

Get software designed specifically for your business — not a cookie-cutter app you have to bend around.

Sound familiar?

Is this what running your business feels like?

Most growing businesses outgrow their tools long before they replace them. If any of these sound like your week, you are not alone — and it can be fixed.

  • You are tracking work in spreadsheets that keep breaking.
  • Important details are buried in email.
  • Your team enters the same data in multiple places.
  • You pay for several tools that still do not fit.
  • Reporting takes too long or depends on one person.
  • Customers, jobs, cases, leads, or tasks fall through the cracks.

A custom app gives your business one place to run the process — built around how you already work.

What I build

Practical software for the work you actually do

Not cookie-cutter templates with the labels changed — each app is built around your people, your data, and the steps that happen every day.

Internal tools

Internal business tools

Replace spreadsheets and manual tracking with one simple system your team can use every day.

Portals

Customer and client portals

Let customers submit information, check status, upload files, or communicate securely.

Sales

Lead and sales systems

Track prospects, follow-ups, campaigns, contacts, and reporting in one place.

Workflow

Case, job, and workflow tracking

Keep every step, note, document, task, and deadline organized.

Reporting

Dashboards and reports

See the numbers that matter without chasing spreadsheets.

Automation

Automation

Remove repetitive steps, reminders, imports, exports, and follow-ups.

What you get

More than a build — the whole app handled for you

You do not just get code dropped in your lap. You get an app that is planned, built, hosted, protected, and improved over time by one accountable person.

01 Plan it

I learn your workflow and map it into screens, users, data, and reports.

02 Build it

I create the application around your real process, not a template.

03 Host it

I can run it in a secure hosted environment so you do not have to manage servers.

04 Protect it

Security, permissions, backups, monitoring, and updates are included in the plan.

05 Improve it

After launch, the app can keep changing as your business changes.

Why custom?

Why custom instead of another subscription?

Generic software almost fits. A custom app fits — because it is built around the way you already work.

Generic software

  • Almost fits
  • Charges per user
  • Forces your workflow to change
  • Has features you do not need
  • Makes reporting and exporting difficult
  • Support does not know your business

Your custom app

  • Built around your actual process
  • No per-user tax unless we choose that model
  • You own your app and your data
  • Add only what you need
  • Reports match your business
  • Built and supported by the person who knows it
Real examples

A look at apps and tools I have built

Some are commercial products, some solve a specific business problem, and some are open-source tools shared in public. All are real, working software — not mockups.

Business and sales apps

MarketQwik lead generation and CRM platform landing page
MarketQwik

MarketQwik

Commercial

Find leads, manage contacts, and run campaigns in one place.

Solves: Replaces a stack of separate prospecting, list-building, and CRM tools that do not talk to each other.

  • Lead discovery & enrichment
  • Contacts & campaigns
  • Pipeline & reports
MSPReboot apps and resources landing page
MSPReboot

MSPReboot Apps

Commercial

A hosted home for the operational tools and dashboards a business runs on.

Solves: Pulls scattered internal tools, resources, and dashboards into one maintained place.

  • Hosted business tools
  • Dashboards
  • Ongoing support
EarthBorn Roots public website
EarthBorn Roots

EarthBorn Roots

Designed & built

A custom website and product catalog for a small-batch goods brand.

Solves: Gives a growing brand a professional online home instead of a generic, off-the-shelf template.

  • Custom design
  • Product collections
  • Hosted & maintained

Legal and workflow apps

Practa legal practice management platform landing page
Practa

Practa

Commercial

Everything a law firm needs to run its cases, in one secure place.

Solves: Replaces separate tools for cases, documents, client messages, and trust accounting.

  • Case & document management
  • Client portal
  • Trust accounting
CaseBuilderIn development

CaseBuilder

In development

Organize cases, timelines, documents, and notes in one workspace.

Solves: Keeps every record, deadline, and document for a case together instead of scattered across folders.

  • Case timelines
  • Notes & records
  • Document organization

Monitoring and security apps

Monit monitoring dashboard showing CPU, RAM, server, website and check status with live charts
Monit

Monit

Product

See at a glance whether your servers, sites, and services are healthy.

Solves: Turns scattered uptime and health data into clear dashboards and timely alerts.

  • Uptime & status pages
  • Live dashboards
  • Multi-channel alerts
ExploitHound vulnerability and threat detection platform landing page
ExploitHound

ExploitHound

Commercial

Find the security weak spots before someone else does.

Solves: Scans your systems for vulnerabilities and shows which ones actually matter first.

  • Vulnerability scanning
  • Threat prioritization
  • Clear reporting
MailThreatZero email security platform landing page
MailThreatZero

MailThreatZero

Commercial

Stop spam, phishing, and malware before it reaches the inbox.

Solves: Filters dangerous email out and gives you a clear view of what was blocked.

  • Spam & phishing filtering
  • Quarantine dashboard
  • Domain protection

Open-source tools

OPNMGR OPNsense Manager dashboard showing firewall status distribution and network locations
OPNMGR

OPNMGR

Open source

Manage a fleet of firewalls from one screen.

Solves: Replaces logging into each firewall by hand with central updates and monitoring.

  • Central firewall management
  • Automated updates
  • Monitoring
ClientSt0r open-source MSP operations platform landing page
ClientSt0r

ClientSt0r

Open source

One platform for the documentation, tickets, and assets an IT shop runs on.

Solves: Combines the scattered tools an MSP uses every day into a single self-hosted system.

  • Documentation & vault
  • Tickets & assets
  • Self-hosted
St0r web interface for UrBackup servers landing page
St0r

St0r

Open source

A clean web dashboard for the backups you already run.

Solves: Makes backup status, restores, and disaster recovery easy to see and manage.

  • Backup dashboards
  • Restore workflows
  • Disaster recovery
Depl0y Proxmox infrastructure control panel landing page
Depl0y

Depl0y

Open source

Spin up and manage virtual servers without the busywork.

Solves: Makes deploying and controlling servers fast, repeatable, and accountable.

  • Rapid server deployment
  • Access control
  • Audit logging
Rem0te remote support platform dashboard showing endpoints, sessions, and recent activity
Rem0te

Rem0te

Open source

Remote support and access organized for multiple clients.

Solves: Gives a support team one place to reach and help the computers they look after.

  • Remote access
  • Multi-client
  • Self-hosted
GitHub profile for agit8or1 showing public open-source repositories
GitHub · agit8or1

GitHub — agit8or1

Open source

Open code you can inspect, learn from, and use.

Solves: Shows real, working development in public — proof, not just claims.

  • Public repositories
  • Real, inspectable code
  • Tools & utilities
Why choose me

You are not hiring a disappearing dev shop

You are working with someone who has built software, owned a managed IT company, supported real businesses, and kept their systems running, secure, and backed up for years.

A custom application is not just screens and buttons. It is workflow, data, security, uptime, backups, support, and long-term maintenance. I have done all of those parts for real businesses — not as demos, but as the work that kept clients running.

So when your app goes live, the person who built it already understands how it has to run, what can go wrong, and how to fix it. Nothing is outsourced, and there is one person accountable from the first conversation to long-term support.

“Custom software is better when the person building it understands the whole picture — the users, the workflow, the servers, the security, the backups, and the business pressure behind the request.”

  • Programming since the 1980sHands-on experience going back to machine language — decades of technical depth, not just recent web work.
  • Owned an MSP from 1999 to 2023Ran a managed IT company for real clients: support, servers, networks, security, email, and backups.
  • Real-world operations experienceSecurity, infrastructure, hosting, backups, and support — handled through actual client emergencies, not theory.
  • Builds it and runs itI understand how the app has to work after launch, because I am the one who keeps it running.
  • Deadlines kept and metWhen we agree on a timeline, I hold to it. You get realistic dates up front and working software delivered when promised.
  • Full pricing disclosure — no gotchasYou get a clear written quote before any work starts. No hidden fees, no surprise line items, and no charging you later for access to your own software.
  • Never outsourcedYour app is not farmed out to a rotating cast of contractors or an offshore team.
  • One accountable personThe person who wrote the code is the person who answers when you need help.
Security, hosting & backups

Built to keep working after it goes live

An app is not finished when it demos well. It is finished when it stays online, stays secure, and can be recovered if something goes wrong. That part is built in from the start.

  • Hosted in a professional datacenter environment.
  • Encrypted public access with HTTPS.
  • Admin areas can be locked down and protected.
  • User permissions can be limited by role.
  • Backups for files, databases, and server recovery.
  • Updates and security patches handled as part of maintenance.
  • Monitoring for uptime, storage, health, and SSL expiration.
  • Optional two-factor authentication.
Technical details — for technical reviewers

For anyone who wants the specifics under the plain-English summary above:

  • Public HTTPS/TLS terminated in front by Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM), with the application kept simple and locked down on a private network.
  • Brute-force and abuse protection with fail2ban, rate limiting, and GeoIP filtering to shrink the attack surface.
  • Firewall rules, least-privilege access, hardened server configuration, and clear separation between public and private services.
  • Application code, dependencies, and the underlying platform are reviewed against known CVEs and common exploit classes, with EPSS-driven prioritization.
  • Role-based access control (RBAC), optional two-factor authentication, strong session handling, and protected admin areas.
  • Backups for application files and databases, replicated to additional backup servers and validated as part of maintenance.
  • Ongoing dependency review, OS/runtime patching, and uptime/health/storage/SSL monitoring.

Datacenter compliance & assurance standards

PCI DSSSOC reportsHIPAAISO 27001SSAE 18HITRUST

The hosting foundation uses a datacenter environment with major compliance and assurance standards such as PCI DSS, SOC reports, HIPAA, ISO 27001, SSAE 18, and HITRUST. Application-level compliance depends on the app, data, policies, and controls required.

How it works

A simple path from idea to working app

You are involved at every step, and nothing ships that you have not seen working.

Talk

We start with a conversation about what you are trying to fix.

Map the workflow

I turn how you work into screens, users, data, and reports.

Build a first version

I create a practical working version, not just a mockup.

Test with real users

Your team tries it on real work, and we adjust early.

Launch securely

I host it, secure it, back it up, and put monitoring in place.

Maintain and improve

I keep it patched, supported, and growing as your business changes.

FAQ

Common questions

Straight answers about how projects start, what they cost, ownership, hosting, and security.

How do we start?

We start with a conversation — not a contract. Tell me what you are trying to fix, and I will learn how your business actually works. From there I map the workflow, build a first version you can try, and we adjust from real use before anything goes live.

How much does a custom app cost?

It depends on what the app needs to do — the screens, the data, who uses it, and what it connects to. After a short planning step, you get a written estimate tied to that scope. Larger projects are usually broken into phases so you see working software early instead of paying for everything at once. Hosting and maintenance are quoted separately, so you always know what is a one-time cost and what is ongoing.

Do I own my app and data?

Yes. We can structure it so you own the application outright and can take it — and your data — with you anytime. No per-user taxes, no feature lockouts, and no losing access to what is yours. Or you can keep it hosted with me, where backups, security, and uptime are handled for you. The choice is yours, and it is yours to change later.

What if I want someone else to continue development, or do it myself?

You are never locked in. When your app is built, I provide a complete development handoff package — including code planning, database schema and diagrams, architecture notes, setup and deployment instructions, full documentation, and guidance — so you can either have me build and maintain the application, or take the plan and continue development internally or with another developer.

Can you host and maintain it?

Yes. I can run your app in a secure hosted environment so you never have to manage servers. Hosting includes security, backups, monitoring, updates, and patches as part of ongoing maintenance — the part most "we built it and left" projects skip.

Can it replace spreadsheets?

That is one of the most common reasons people reach out. A custom app gives your team one place to enter and find information, with the structure, permissions, and reporting that spreadsheets cannot reliably provide once more than a couple of people are involved.

Can it connect to software I already use?

Usually, yes. Many tools offer a way to connect, and your app can share data with the software you already rely on — email, billing, calendars, reporting, and more — so information does not have to be entered twice.

Is it secure?

Security is built in from the first design decisions, not added at the end. Your app runs over HTTPS, admin areas are locked down, access is limited by role, and the system is monitored, patched, and backed up. There is a "Technical details" section above for anyone who wants the specifics.

Do you use AI?

Yes — as a helper, not the author. AI speeds up repetitive work like boilerplate and documentation. The decisions that matter — how the app works, how it is laid out, and how it is secured — are made by a human who understands the whole environment around it.

What happens after launch?

Launch is the beginning, not the end. I keep the app patched, backed up, monitored, and supported, and the app can keep changing as your business changes. When something needs fixing or improving, you talk to the person who built it.

Let's build it

Have a process that needs to be easier?

Tell me what you are trying to fix. Whether it starts as a spreadsheet, a messy workflow, or an idea in your head, I can help turn it into a working app.

Prefer email? agit8or@agit8or.net

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