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Problems solved.
Systems still running.

A selection of real work we've built and shipped for actual clients. No mock-ups, no hypotheticals — these are live and running.

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Project case studies
01

Automated Gate Access

Automation · Twilio · Cloud
Private property owner
Running2024
The problem

Every time a guest arrived, the gate called the property owner's phone. They had to answer, press 9, deal with it — no matter the hour. Late-night check-ins, early arrivals, missed calls that left guests stranded. The gate didn't care what else was going on.

What was built

Built a phone number that acts like a smart gatekeeper. Approved numbers call in, the system answers automatically, and sends the exact tones the gate controller needs to open — timed precisely for that specific hardware. No app to download. No code to look up. The gate just opens. The owner gets a text the moment it happens: who called, which number, when. Unknown callers get blocked. Everything is logged.

The result

The owner stopped thinking about gate access entirely. Guests get in without friction, there's a complete record without any effort, and the whole thing runs in the cloud with no hardware to maintain.

02

Get Nocked

Software · Tournament Management
Double X Archery
Running2024
The problem

Archery tournaments run on precise timing — each end has a set clock, and archers on the lane need to see it clearly. The hardware built for this is expensive. Double X Archery needed the same accuracy without buying dedicated timing equipment.

What was built

A custom timing system built to run on the computer and display Double X Archery already had — no new equipment to buy, no proprietary timing box. Tournament directors get a clean interface to run the show: start the end, pause, reset. The display updates live for archers on the lane.

The result

Double X Archery runs tournaments on custom timing software built for the hardware they already had. No new equipment purchase, no proprietary box, no licensing fees. It just works.

03

Nock Out Cancer Shoot

Software · Event Platform & Fundraising
Two Rivers Archery Club + Double X Archery · charity shoot
Ran live — event complete2026
The problem

Two clubs, one Saturday, no second chance. Entry fees, sponsor pledges, walk-up cash, raffle tickets, retail sales at the counter, and the scoring on the line all arrive through different doors on the same day. The usual answer is a form service, a payment link, paper scorecards, and a spreadsheet someone reconciles the following week — and those pieces never fully agree. That's tolerable right up until someone has to name a number on the donation check and defend it.

What was built

One platform covering every surface the event touched: registration and payment, sponsor pledges, dedications rotated live on a TV at the range, and end-by-end scoring from a tablet with live standings by division. Payments ran through Stripe, with the webhook as the source of truth so a redelivered event couldn't double-count; everything else — cash, walk-ups, raffle, retail — fed the same ledger, tagged by method and by club. Admin login was email and password with scrypt-hashed credentials and revocable sessions, scoped so each club saw only its own registrations.

The result

The event ran on it. Sponsors pledged without being chased, the line was scored digitally, and the standings were known at the awards instead of a week later. Afterward the same data produced a line-by-line ledger of every dollar collected — entry fees, side pot, pledges, online gifts, cash, raffle, and retail — with unpaid pledges broken out separately rather than folded into the total. The ledger reconciled the gap between the running live tracker and the final count, accounted for the raffle payout owed to its winner, and priced in the processor fees still to come out. The organizers cut the donation check against a figure they could defend line by line.

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