Internal Dashboards
Pull data from 4+ tools into one view your ops team actually uses. Real-time, role-scoped, no spreadsheet exports required.
Service
Custom Software Development.
Software shaped around your workflow.
Web apps, internal tools, dashboards, and portals built to fit exactly how your team actually works. No more molding your business to fit a SaaS product. No more 27 integrations held together by Zapier. Real software, your stack, your rules.
Plain English
When custom beats off-the-shelf.
You already know the case for SaaS: it’s fast, it’s cheap, someone else handles the upgrades. Custom software is the opposite bet, and it’s the right bet when three things are true at once.
One: your workflow is the thing that makes you money. The way your team handles approvals, pricing, or coordination is a real edge. Fitting that into a generic tool flattens it.
Two: you’re paying the SaaS tax. Per-seat pricing adds up, especially for internal tools where half your team uses the software ten times a day. A custom build pays for itself inside 18 months.
Three: your integration stack is a house of cards. Forty zaps, three Airtable bases, and a Google Sheet that breaks every time someone touches it. That’s not automation — that’s duct tape.
Who this is for
Four signs you’re the right fit.
- 01
Teams outgrowing the SaaS they started on.
You’ve hit the limits of Monday, Airtable, or HubSpot. The workarounds are taking more time than the work. Time for software shaped around you, not the other way around.
- 02
Ops leaders with a specific workflow.
Your business has rules that no off-the-shelf product knows about. Approvals, calculations, edge cases. You need software that encodes them — not 40 zaps trying to fake it.
- 03
Founders who need one custom tool, not a platform.
A dashboard, a portal, an ops app — one thing, built right. No multi-year product roadmap. Ship, use, move on.
- 04
Leaders replacing a legacy system.
Something critical is held together with string. You need a modern replacement that matches the current behaviour, then starts improving it.
How we build
Four steps. Weekly ship cycles.
- 01
Workflow Audit
We shadow your team for a day — or at minimum a 90-minute walkthrough — to understand what the software actually needs to do. Nothing gets designed until the workflow is on paper.
- 02
Design Sprint
We mock up the critical screens, test them against real scenarios, and get your sign-off before writing a line of code. No handing over a 40-page Figma and hoping for the best.
- 03
Production Build
Modern stack (Next.js, TypeScript, Postgres, or whatever fits your infra). Shipped in weekly slices so you see progress — and can redirect — every Friday.
- 04
Handoff & Ownership
You get the code, the docs, and a recorded walkthrough. Your team can run it, extend it, or hire anyone to do so. No platform license, no vendor lock-in.
What we build
Six of the most common shapes.
Client & Partner Portals
Branded portals where your customers or vendors log in to see their data, upload files, and self-serve the things your team keeps answering.
Workflow Tools
Case management, approval queues, intake forms with logic — the workflow apps you wish Monday or ClickUp could be, without the monthly seat fees.
Reporting Systems
Scheduled PDF reports, email digests, and board-ready dashboards generated automatically from your source data.
Integration Middleware
The invisible glue between systems that don’t talk. Webhooks, sync jobs, and queues so your CRM actually matches your accounting system.
Legacy Replacements
That Access database, that 2012 PHP app, that Excel-with-macros spreadsheet running a critical process — rebuilt on a modern stack without missing a beat.
Why Consult Valix
Five things we won’t compromise on.
- 01
You own the code, the data, and the deploy.
No platform tax. No account manager gate. Everything lives in your GitHub, your cloud, your domain. We can manage it for you, or hand it over entirely.
- 02
Fixed-price, shipped weekly.
Scoping engagement locks the price before anyone writes code. Builds ship in weekly slices so you’re never a month deep before seeing progress.
- 03
Designed for the humans using it.
Internal tools get the same design care as marketing sites. The team who has to click 40 times a day deserves software that doesn’t feel like 2008.
- 04
Built on a stack your next engineer can inherit.
Next.js, TypeScript, Postgres, boring-until-it-works infra. No obscure frameworks. Any senior engineer can pick it up in a week.
- 05
Integrated with your automations from day one.
If you’re also running an agent with us, the software feeds it and vice versa. Forms trigger agents, agents update the software. One team, one architecture.
What you get
Everything in the box.
- Production-ready application deployed to your infrastructure
- Full source code in your GitHub organization
- Plain-English technical documentation + recorded walkthrough
- User training session with your team
- 30 days of post-launch bug fixes and tuning
- Optional ongoing development retainer
Software shaped around the way you actually work.
Book a 20-minute discovery call. We’ll scope it, price it, and send you a fixed proposal within 48 hours.
Frequently asked
- What is the minimum project budget for custom software?
- Custom software design starts at $10,000. That covers a tightly scoped v1 — a single workflow, one to two integrations, a clean reviewer UI, and an audit-ready data model. Larger builds (multi-tenant SaaS, multi-system integrations, role-based admin layers, mobile clients) typically run $25,000–$160,000 depending on scope. Engagement minimum is $5,000; everything is fixed-price after the discovery audit.
- How long does a typical custom software build take?
- v1 ships in 4–8 weeks for single-system builds (e.g. a Yardi-integrated lease abstraction layer, a Salesforce-extended quoting tool, a custom client portal on top of HubSpot). Multi-system or multi-location builds run 10–16 weeks. We commit to fixed-price scope and timeline before kickoff — no hourly creep, no scope-renegotiation theatre.
- Can you integrate with our existing systems (Yardi, Salesforce, QuickBooks, etc.)?
- Yes — we integrate against documented APIs (Salesforce, HubSpot, Yardi Voyager, Yardi Breeze, AppFolio, MRI, NetDocuments, iManage, Clio, Black Diamond, Orion, QuickBooks, Stripe, ShopMonkey, Tekmetric, XPEL DAP). For systems with no API, we build a thin extraction layer against database views or scheduled exports. Every integration includes a documented schema map and a write-back approval flow so nothing posts silently.
- Who owns the codebase after launch?
- You do. Every engagement ends with the source code in your GitHub or GitLab organization, infrastructure deployed under your cloud account (AWS, GCP, Azure, Vercel, or Fly), and full documentation handed to your team. No platform lock-in, no licensing tax, no proprietary runtime. Ongoing maintenance is optional via a $2,000–$5,000/mo growth retainer; if you'd rather take the build and self-maintain from day one, that works too.