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
4 to 10 weeks
Typical timeline
$3,000 - $15,000
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
Built VIBE CRM, LaunchWise, and multiple internal platforms from scratch. I know what breaks at scale and what to build right the first time.
// 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
A focused SaaS MVP with auth, billing, and the core feature set typically takes 4 to 8 weeks. The scope document defines exactly what ships in the first version. You get working software, not a prototype.
Yes. Stripe subscriptions, usage-based billing, free trials, upgrade/downgrade flows, dunning, and webhook handling. Billing is one of the most complex parts of any SaaS and I have built it many times.
Multi-tenancy is a core pattern I build into every SaaS from the start. Each tenant gets isolated data with row-level security. Tenants can never see each other's data.
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.