Desktop software
Windows applications that hold a business’s real records — encrypted, on its own machine, working whether or not the internet is.
Bern, Switzerland
Software small businesses can actually run.
Desktop applications, websites, and the systems that join them. Built for one business at a time — and built to keep working on a bad day, not only a good one.
What we build
Three things, and the seam between them.
Websites
Fast, hand-built sites and WordPress themes. No page builder, no plugin stack, nothing that stops working when a subscription lapses.
The join between them
The part most projects skip: getting the office system and the public website to agree, automatically, without anybody typing the same car twice.
Selected work
Tiff Cardealer
A complete system for Downtown Auto Sales, a used-car dealership in Anchorage, Alaska: a Windows application that holds every vehicle, cost and document, and a website that publishes only what a customer should see.
- An encrypted database on the dealership’s own machine — purchase price, parts, labour and margin never leave it.
- A car marked Ready appears on the website by itself. Marked Sold, it comes down — keeping its page, its photos and its history.
- Bill of Sale, federal odometer disclosure and FTC Buyers Guide, generated from the record rather than typed again.
- VINs read from a photograph of the door frame instead of seventeen characters typed by hand.
How we work
Four things we will not trade away.
One business at a time
We take on few projects and stay on them. You get the people who wrote it, not a ticket queue.
Your data stays yours
Where it belongs on your machine, it stays on your machine. What has to be public is chosen deliberately, field by field — never by default.
Built to be run by staff
The people using it are selling cars, not administering software. Anything that needs a manual is something we have not finished.
Nothing ships unverified
A passing test is not somebody opening the screen. Both happen before we tell you it works.
Tell us what the business actually does.
Not the software you think you need — the job it has to get done. That conversation is free, and it is usually where the real answer is.