Custom Hosted Business Applications Built Around Your Workflow

It starts with a conversation, not a contract. I learn how your business actually operates — the workflow, the people, the pain points, and what "done" looks like — then map that into screens, roles, data, and reports. From there I build a practical first version, refine it with real users, then handle hosting, security, backups, and monitoring before it goes live. After launch I keep patching, improving, and adding features as the business changes.

The short version: discovery → workflow mapping → prototype → build → host & secure → maintain & improve. You're involved at every step, and nothing ships that you haven't seen working.

Every quote follows a short discovery and workflow-mapping step, because an honest number depends on what the application actually has to do — the screens, the data, the integrations, the user roles, and the hosting and security requirements. Once the scope is clear, you get a written estimate tied to that scope.

Larger builds are usually broken into phases so you can see working software early and spread the work out, rather than paying for one large all-at-once delivery. Ongoing hosting, maintenance, and support are quoted separately so you always know what's a one-time build cost and what's recurring. No surprise line items, and no charging you for access to your own software later.

Yes — but as a helper, not the author. AI is used to speed up and automate repetitive work: boilerplate, refactoring, test scaffolding, documentation, and research. The decisions that matter — the layout, the design, how the application actually works, and the security review — are done by a human who understands the whole environment around the app.

AI accelerates the busywork so more time goes into the parts that determine whether the software is actually good: the workflow fit, the data model, the edge cases, and the security posture.

Every application is checked with my own security scanning product, ExploitHound — the same tooling sold commercially is used to vet the code I ship. It's a full-stack check, not just a quick lint of the application code:

• Application code checked against known CVEs, zero-day patterns, and common exploit classes (injection, auth bypass, insecure deserialization, and similar).
• Dependencies and libraries reviewed for known vulnerabilities and kept patched, so a flaw in a third-party package doesn't become a flaw in your app.
• The underlying platform — operating system, runtime, web server, and database — scanned and hardened, because most real-world breaches happen below the application layer.
• Threat intelligence and prioritization so the issues that are actually being exploited in the wild get fixed first, instead of drowning in low-risk noise.

Security isn't a box ticked at the end — it's checked from the first design decisions through every update.

Security is built into how each application is hosted and run, not bolted on afterward. Depending on the app, the protections layered in include:

• fail2ban — watches authentication and service logs and automatically bans IP addresses that show malicious patterns (repeated failed logins, probing, abuse), so attacks are stopped at the firewall instead of hammering the app.
• Brute-force protection — rate limiting, throttling, and lockouts on login and sensitive endpoints, so password-guessing and credential-stuffing attempts are slowed to a crawl and blocked.
• GeoIP filtering — traffic from regions that have no legitimate reason to reach your app can be restricted or blocked, shrinking the attack surface to where your real users actually are.
• HTTPS everywhere — public TLS is terminated cleanly in front by Nginx Proxy Manager, while the backend stays simple and locked down on a private network.
• Least-privilege & hardening — firewall rules, restricted admin areas, hardened server and service configuration, and a clear separation between public and private services.
• Secure authentication — strong password handling, optional two-factor authentication, role-based access control, and session protections.
• Monitoring & patching — uptime, health, and security monitoring with ongoing OS, dependency, and application updates as part of maintenance.

Which layers apply depends on the application and its risk profile, but the goal is always the same: make the easy attacks fail and the rest expensive.

Backups cover application files, databases, and server-level recovery. They're stored on a dedicated backup server I operate, then replicated to additional backup servers so a single failure — hardware, location, or otherwise — doesn't put your data at risk. Backups are validated as part of ongoing maintenance, because a backup you've never restored is just a hope, not a recovery plan.

Yes. We can structure the agreement so you own the application outright and can take it — and your data — with you anytime you choose to leave. No per-user taxes, no feature lockouts, no forced cloud, and no losing access to what's yours.

Or you can keep it hosted with us, where security scanning, backups, and uptime are all automated and handled for you. Either way the choice is yours, and it's yours to change later — the value is in the real services around the software, not in trapping you behind recurring access fees.