The questions prospects actually ask.

Solvyr builds custom software around your workflow: internal tools, admin dashboards, AP automation, crew scheduling, QuickBooks Online integrations, client portals, booking systems, AI workflow automation.

We specialize in ops-heavy businesses — places where spreadsheets, paper, or legacy tools are costing time and money. After we build the software, we also host and maintain it, so you never need a dev team or a server admin.

Typical first builds land between $15,000 and $40,000, fixed-scope. Ongoing managed hosting + maintenance is from $2,000/month.

The hosting fee covers servers, backups, security patches, uptime monitoring, same-day support, and up to 30 minutes of minor changes per month. Larger changes are quoted separately as a mini-build.

If the first-build number comes out under $15K, it's usually a sign the project should be a SaaS product instead of a custom build — we'll tell you that.

You do. Always.

Every engagement ships with the full source code repository in your account, deployment documentation, and database access in your name. There is no escrow, no "only while the contract is active" clause, no vendor lock-in. Managed hosting is a service, not a trap — the door is always unlocked.

Three safeguards.

1. You own everything. Code, database, infrastructure config. If Shawn disappears tomorrow, your systems keep running and any PHP engineer can pick up where he left off.
2. Boring, inheritable stack. PHP, MySQL, React, Tailwind — thousands of engineers already know them. Every build ships with a written-for-humans README.
3. Named warm-handoff path. Clients on active hosting + maintenance have a small informal bench of senior engineers Shawn trusts with production access, written into the contract.

Most builds take 2 to 12 weeks from signed scope to shipped production.

• Simple internal tool (one core workflow): usually 2–4 weeks.
• Multi-module platform (like our WorkForce XL case study): 8–12 weeks.

Every Friday during a build you get a working demo URL with the week's progress — feedback loops stay tight, scope stays honest.

Not currently. Solvyr is a custom-build-plus-managed-hosting studio, not a SaaS company. Every engagement is a bespoke build around your workflow.

If you're looking for a ready-to-use SaaS product, we'll tell you — and we'll usually point you at one that fits. Our strength is the middle ground where your workflow is too specific for SaaS but too small to justify hiring an in-house engineering team.

The sweet spot is teams of 3 to 100 people, doing $350,000 to $10 million in annual revenue.

Deepest expertise is in commercial construction (especially interior trades — drywall, framing, acoustical), small-business AP automation, and QuickBooks-integrated workflows.

Based in Fort Worth, Texas. Work is delivered remotely, so geography is flexible — roughly half our clients are in Texas and the Sun Belt, the rest are scattered across the US.

A mid-level developer in Texas is $90,000–$120,000/year fully loaded, and you pay them whether there's active work or not. Solvyr's managed-hosting fee is $24,000/year, covers a shipped system with on-call support, and scales up only when you actually need new work.

The tradeoff: you don't have someone you can walk over to and assign tasks. The best fit is when you have a well-scoped system that mostly runs itself and occasionally needs updates — not when you have a continuous backlog of new features.

SaaS products are fast to start and cheap at first, but you adapt to the tool. Solvyr builds the tool around your workflow, which costs more upfront and less over time.

If your workflow fits a SaaS product well, use the SaaS — life is short. If your workflow has 2 or 3 specific things SaaS never gets right (construction job-cost splits, lien waivers, multi-entity QBO sync, custom subcontractor portals), custom-built pencils out.

We have a longer decision framework for small contractors in the blog.

From $2,000/month, you get:

• Servers, database, domain, SSL, CDN, file storage
• Uptime monitoring with on-call response
• Automated database backups every 6 hours, retained 30 days
• Security patches + dependency updates
• Same-day email + text support
• Up to 30 minutes of minor changes per month

Larger feature work is scoped separately as a mini-build.

Yes, any time.

On exit you receive:

• Full source code repository
• Database export (SQL dump + latest backup files)
• Deployment configuration
• Written migration plan — how to stand the app up elsewhere

Typical migrations take a new engineer about a day of setup. No cancellation fee beyond the current month's hosting.

Solvyr is based in Fort Worth, Texas. All work is delivered remotely — video calls, Slack/email, shared scoping docs, weekly demo URLs — so clients can be anywhere.

About half of active engagements are in Texas and the Sun Belt; the rest are scattered across the US. On-site visits happen rarely and only when a specific workflow is impossible to scope remotely.

Yes. After the first fit call, if both sides are seriously evaluating an engagement, the second call includes a warm intro to two active Solvyr clients — including RLS Construction, LLC for the construction case study.

They will tell you straight what working with Solvyr is actually like — what shipped, what slipped, and how the managed-hosting relationship has held up. We do not pre-coach reference calls.