Skip to content

Custom software workshop · Lawrence, Kansas

Built by craftsmen,
not coders.

We build web, mobile, and desktop applications from the ground up — for startups, growing businesses, and university labs — then hand them over whole. Your code. Your accounts. Your product.

Book a call How we work →

01 / What we build

Whole products, built from zero

Real, standalone software — not plugins, not templates. Every engagement finite: scoped, quoted, finished.

01

Custom applications

Web, mobile, and desktop applications built from the ground up — the interface, the services behind it, the infrastructure it runs on. Whole products in your name.

02

AI & automation

Intelligence built into your software where it earns its keep: document understanding, decision support, agents that do one job well. In our workshop, AI is a tool — not the craftsman.

03

Integrations

Your new application has to live with what you already run. We wire it into the CRM, billing, and instruments you have, so data moves once, correctly.

04

Ongoing partnership

After handover, a standing relationship if you want one: maintenance, honest counsel, and the next scope when you are ready.

prairie-code / workbench blueprint complete · yours to keep

You bring the idea. We build the whole product.

Real standalone applications — from first screen to production infrastructure. Pick a project and watch it take shape.

I have the idea and the customers — but I am not technical. Be my engineering department and build the whole product with me.

Build blueprint

02 / How we work

Measured twice, built once

The finish line is written down before we start. Then we work toward it, in the open.

01

Listen

We start with your operation, not our stack. If custom software is not worth it for you, we will say so.

02

Scope

A fixed scope, a real number, and a definition of done — in writing, before any code.

03

Build

Working software early, short honest check-ins, and the hidden joints finished as carefully as the visible ones.

04

Hand over

Code, accounts, data, and docs transferred to your name — with your people trained to run it.

Finished means yours.

From day one, everything lives in accounts you control. If we disappeared tomorrow, your software would keep working.

Repositories Hosting Domains Data Documentation

All in your name from day one. No lock-in — that is the point.

03 / Proof

Out in the field

Products we built, now doing quiet work in Kansas and beyond.

Homestead Helper
An AI-powered mobile app giving homesteaders personalized, property-specific guidance across gardening, livestock, food preservation, and infrastructure — with persistent memory of their land.
Read more →
SAGE Recovery
A voice-first recovery app built around a single button — natural conversations, memory across sessions, and crisis detection that brings help when it matters most.
Read more →
BMC Tracker
A web app that versions Business Model Canvases and uses AI to analyze how a business model changes over time — turning a one-time snapshot into a living record.
Read more →
Invest Kansas
A compliant crowdfunding marketplace connecting Kansas businesses with local micro-investors — campaigns, escrow-backed transactions, e-signatures, and AI recommendations, built from the ground up.
Read more →

04 / Who we serve

Who we serve

People who care what gets built in their name — and want to own it when it is done.

For startups

Your engineering department

You have the idea, the industry knowledge, and the customers — but you are not technical. That is fine. We step in as your CTO and engineering team and build the entire product, with you and for you.

Whole product: design → ship
CTO-level counsel in plain English
Your repo and accounts, day one

For growing businesses

Internal tools, custom-fit

You have outgrown the spreadsheets and the generic SaaS. We build the internal applications that make your people faster — a CRM shaped like your pipeline, a logistics platform shaped like your routes.

Custom CRMs & operations apps
Dashboards over your real data
Fits the systems you already pay for

For universities

Software that outlasts the grant

Lab directors and researchers hire us to build custom applications for their research — instruments for data: documented, reproducible, and ready to hand to the next post-doc.

Data pipelines & lab tools
Scopes that fit grant cycles
Docs your successors can run

We take on a limited number of projects each year. If we are a fit, we will tell you. If we are not, we will tell you that too, and point you somewhere better.

Forging new frontiers

Tell us what you are trying to build.

A thirty-minute call with the craftsman who would do the work. Honest counsel about whether custom software is worth it for you — and a straight answer if it is not.

Book a call

hello@prairiecode.ai