Case studies
Proof of the work: legacy rescues, new builds, systems kept running.
Healthy, Serving Traffic, and Missing 27 of Its 28 Tables
A founder-built product, examined from scratch at its author's invitation, with nobody here having written a line of it. Three checks any reasonable operator would run all reported success against a database missing 27 of its 28 tables. Nobody had the whole picture of what the system had become, including the person who built it.
Real-Time Transcripts, Correct Ordering: The District Side of a National Best-Practices Award
Founder's work, on contract to a large school district, 2009–2010, years before BitSalt existed. The award went to a statewide submission; the district-side implementation is the one PESC's own comparison names as real-time and correctly ordered where the state's older path was neither.
School Financial Software, a Decade Old and Still Adding Up
One of the largest school districts in the U.S. ran its entire funding formula out of a single file of Perl only its original author could safely touch. Working alone, under contract, we replaced it, and it ran the district's school-by-school funding allocations correctly for the next ten years.
Would It Be Possible... Ideas That Lead To Apps
A domain expert had an idea: lesson plans that actually held up to state academic standards, vetted by a real educator before they ever reached a classroom. We built it into a statewide tool that thousands of instructors used, and other states took notice.
A Decade of Donor Records, Rebuilt Without Losing a Row
A school foundation's donation system ran on an obsolete version of its programming language. We suspected serious security problems, and the foundation's security team confirmed it. That funded the rebuild, and we measured, row by row, that nothing was lost.
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Not a sales call. Just a first conversation about what you're dealing with: a system that's breaking, an idea you want built, or something already running that needs someone watching it, and whether there's a path forward.
Based in Beaufort, SC. Twenty-plus years building and rescuing business-critical software: a software studio built to outlast any one of us.