Enterprise software development company in Franklin, Tennessee
We are an enterprise software development company that gets your systems working together. Scheduling, dispatch, stock and accounting often work fine alone but lose about a day a week between them.
We price connecting what you already have next to replacing it. The cheaper option usually works.
- Connect first
- Usually weeks, not months, and often enough.
- We map the process first
- We follow a real job from start to finish before pricing.
- Built to hand over
- Common technology, written up, in your account.
The problem is usually the gap between two systems
Here is the usual story. The scheduling tool works. The accounting software works. And someone spends an hour every morning making them match. Nobody planned that job, but now the business depends on it.
That gap costs more than either piece of software, but no bill shows it. It shows up as overtime, jobs booked twice and invoices sent three weeks late because paperwork sat in a van.
Replacing a system is the expensive answer, and usually the wrong one. Connecting what you have is faster, cheaper and easier. We price both.
If the system that will not connect is your CRM, start with CRM integration. It is the cheapest version of this job. If your crew needs it on their phones on site, see mobile apps. The people who would do the work are on the about page.
We start by watching a normal morning
Before we recommend anything, we follow a job with the people who do it, from the first call to the invoice. We look for steps that only exist because two systems do not share data, and for workarounds people have stopped noticing.
It takes a day or two, and it usually changes what we recommend. A meeting tells us how the work should go. We need to see how it really goes.
How an enterprise software development company runs the work
Four stages. We always price the cheapest option next to the biggest one.
Watching how the work really happens
Week one · following a real jobWe follow one job from the phone ringing to the invoice going out. Who touches it. Where it gets stuck. What is written on paper and typed in later. Where people have found their own workarounds.
What people describe in a meeting is not what happens day to day. The difference is where the money goes. So we watch the real work with the people doing it.
Connecting what you already run
Connect first · replace lastThe cheapest fix is usually not new software. It is getting two systems you already pay for to share data. Then nobody types the same job twice, and the numbers match.
We price that option next to the bigger one. A company that only quotes replacement earns more from replacement.
Building the piece that does not exist
Scheduling, dispatch, stock, field workSometimes no product fits, because your business does something ready-made tools did not plan for. Then we build that piece and connect it to the rest.
We build it so anyone can take it over. It is written up, stored in your account and uses common technology. Software only its maker understands is expensive to inherit.
Rolling it out
Training and the first monthThe most common failure here is not technical. The crew keeps using the old spreadsheet, because the new system is slower for them, even if it is better for the office.
So we start with one crew or branch. We watch how they use it, fix what slows them down, then roll it out to everyone. Switching the whole company in one day is a risk you do not need.
What you get, written down before you pay
All of this goes in the agreement before you pay anything.
In the work
- The real way work gets done, written down
- Both options priced: connect it or replace it
- A fixed price after a short planning step
- Your data moved over, keeping what is worth keeping
- Rollout to one crew first, then the rest
After handover
- Written notes another company could pick up
- Your code, your accounts, your data
- Monthly support, or a full handover to your IT provider
- Training for the people who use it daily
- Nothing that requires us specifically
Not included
- Replacing a system that works because we prefer another one
- A company-wide switchover on a single day
- Reselling software licenses at a markup
- Building something only we can maintain
Tell us which two systems do not share data, and we will explain what connecting them would take.
Three things to ask before you hire anyone
- Ask for both prices
- Connecting and replacing. A company that only prices replacement is answering a different question.
- Ask who could maintain it
- The answer should be any good developer, not just us.
- Ask what happens when a system changes
- One of your connected systems will change one day. There should be a plan for it.
Common questions
Are we big enough to need an enterprise software development company?
Size has nothing to do with it. It is about systems that must work together: scheduling with accounting, field work with stock, a CRM with the tool your crews use. A 50-person company can have that problem as badly as a 5,000-person one.
What does it cost?
Connecting systems takes weeks and costs far less than building new ones. A new system takes months. If both would solve the problem, we price both. Software is priced per project, after a short planning step.
Can you not just fix what we have?
Very often, and we check that first. Most problems we see are two systems not sharing data, not bad systems. Connecting them costs far less than replacing them.
What happens to the data we already have?
We move what is worth keeping and tell you what is not. Ten years of half-finished records usually hold about two years of useful history. Moving the rest makes the new system slower and less trusted.
How do you handle the switchover?
One crew or branch first, running next to the old way for a short time. Then everyone else once it works. Switching everyone in one day often costs a week of work, so we advise against it.
Will we be stuck with you afterwards?
No. It uses common technology, it is written up, and it lives in your account. If you hire your own developer in two years, they can take it over. That is how we build everything.
Do you work with our existing IT provider?
Yes, and it usually goes better when we do. They know things about your setup that would take us weeks to learn. We are not trying to replace them.
Related: Software overview · CRM integration · SaaS · AI consulting
When we connect to a system you already use, we use its official connection. For example ServiceTitan's API or HubSpot's. We never use hacks that copy data off a screen.
Tell us where your team is re-typing the same data
One call is usually enough to see what connecting them would take, and roughly what it costs.