Custom Tools, Console Apps & Automation
The small programs nobody budgets for and everybody would miss. Scripts, CLI tools, desktop utilities, and data pipelines, at a fixed price.
Small programs, real hours
Not every problem needs a platform. Sometimes it needs a console app that runs every night, a script that fixes 400 Word templates in one pass, or a desktop utility that turns a shared spreadsheet into something with validation and a save button. I like this work. It’s where I started, and it’s usually the highest return per dollar anyone spends on software.
The one I point to most: a PowerShell tool that mass-edited a set of Word document templates and saved about 40 hours of manual work.
Fixed price, known scope. · Quoted after a short conversation, not a form.
- Console and CLI apps in C# or Python: batch jobs, importers, report generators, things that run on a schedule and never need a UI.
- PowerShell and Python automation for the repetitive stuff your team does by hand: file wrangling, Office documents, bulk edits, system tasks.
- Windows desktop utilities (Windows Forms, WPF) when a spreadsheet has outgrown itself.
- Data pipelines: Excel or CSV in, database or API out, with validation and a log of what happened to every row.
- Integrations between systems that were never meant to talk to each other.
- Anything with C++ or hardware in it. I co-built the control side of a computer-vision turret; I’m not scared of a serial port.
Fixed Price
Tell me what the tool needs to do and what it touches. I’ll come back with a written scope and a price. Most tools are done in one to three weeks, and you get the source code.
Boise, Idaho · Remote-Friendly
Based in Boise. For tools that have to live on your machines or behind your firewall, I can work on site. Everything else works fine remote.
Document Template Automation
A set of Word templates that all needed the same edits. One PowerShell tool, about 40 hours saved, no copy-paste mistakes.
Read Case StudyGot a task that should be a program?
Describe it. I’ll tell you whether it’s worth automating, and if it is, what it would cost.