Midwest • Illinois
Chicago is the freight and trading capital of the country. It's the only city where six of the seven Class I railroads meet, which makes it the center of gravity for logistics, 3PLs, and freight brokerages. Downtown, CME Group and Cboe anchor a derivatives trading ecosystem, with proprietary trading firms clustered in the Loop. Around all of that sits a deep bench of food companies, manufacturers, and B2B distributors that have been operating for decades on systems built decades ago.
11
Apps shipped
3 to 14 days
Typical timeline
$500 - $999
Price range
24hr
Quote turnaround
// THE MARKET
Chicago's software demand is operational to its core. Freight brokerages need load boards, carrier scorecards, and margin dashboards that their TMS doesn't provide out of the box. Distributors and manufacturers need the glue layer between an old ERP and the modern tools their teams actually use. This is integration-heavy work: the systems already exist, they just don't talk to each other, and the enterprise consultancies that quote this kind of work start at numbers a mid-market business won't approve.
// LOCAL CONTEXT
The classic Chicago project is a 30-person logistics or distribution company where dispatch runs on one system, accounting on another, and the owner's actual questions (which lanes are profitable, which customers are slow-paying, where margin is leaking) get answered once a month in a spreadsheet. A dashboard that joins those systems and answers those questions daily is a focused build, not an ERP replacement.
// WHAT I BUILD
From simple welcome bots to enterprise-grade community platforms with thousands of daily active users. Every bot is purpose-built, not a template.
// WHY MGT
11
Not demos. Real apps running with real users. Regal Title, eXp Black Lion, InflexTech, 2K Service Plug, and more.
24hr
Tell me what you need. I send back a full scope and fixed price within 24 hours. No lengthy discovery phases before you see a number.
Fixed
One price. Agreed upfront. No scope creep invoices or "additional hours" surprises. If the scope changes, I talk to you before any additional work starts.
Stack for this service
// PROCESS
15 to 30 minutes. You tell me what you need. I tell you if I can build it, how long it takes, and what it costs. No pitch.
I write a clear scope document: what's included, what isn't, timeline, and fixed price. One document. No surprises.
I build in focused sprints with real progress updates. You see working software, not status reports.
Deploy to production. 30 days of post-launch support. Most issues resolved same day.
// FAQ
Simple utility or moderation bots start around $500. Full-featured bots with AI moderation, economy systems, and API integrations run $500 to $999. Large-scale or celebrity server packages are quoted after a scoping call.
A focused utility bot ships in 3 to 5 days. A full-featured community bot with economy, tickets, and integrations typically takes 1 to 2 weeks. Timeline is locked in your scope doc before work starts.
Yes. Bots deploy to Railway or Fly.io with 24/7 uptime monitoring, error logging, and auto-restart. Post-launch hosting runs $5 to $20 per month depending on usage. 30 days of included support after delivery.
Yes. Most of my client work is fully remote. I'm based in Virginia and serve clients across Midwest. Everything is async-friendly: scoping, updates, and delivery all happen over documented channels so you always know where things stand. Same-day responses during business hours.
Tell me what you need. I'll send back a full scope and fixed price within 24 hours. No agency overhead. No middlemen.
New launches and build logs, ~2 per month. No spam.