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Case studies

What we built and what changed.

Six systems in production. Some for clients, some our own. Every figure is a count.

Defense services

Cornerstone Defense: four ledgers, one book

A mid-tier defense services contractor ran its forecast across four systems that never agreed, reconciled by hand before every pipeline call.

We built the system that does it instead: open pipeline, funded backlog, and the staffing to deliver both, in one place. Shipping screens, and their CEO on the record.

Next.js, Postgres, Vercel

In production; leadership piloting

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Membership and events

A 24-chapter membership organization

A regional networking organization with about 9,000 members, 24 chapters and a paid events calendar was running its website and CRM on a departing contractor’s servers, with a hard shutoff date three weeks out.

We rebuilt the back office on a modern CMS with a single database, migrated 8,590 members, 1,245 companies, 2,651 registrations and 16,313 consent records with exact-count gates, moved DNS to infrastructure the client controls, and cut over on schedule with every flow live, including paid registration. Since then: an email program with idempotent send ledgers, live door check-in that writes attendance straight to the CRM, and chapter reporting leadership uses weekly.

Next.js, Payload CMS, Neon Postgres, Vercel, Cloudflare, Resend, Stripe

In production since July 2026, ongoing retainer

Local business websites

Speed2Site

Highly rated local businesses with no website get one built for them, unasked, and an invitation to claim it. A subscription at $19 a month, domain included.

The whole loop is automated: discovery through Google Places, research and copy grounded in what was found, a generated site with its own brand, a preview link, postcard, SMS and email outreach with a verified claim flow, Stripe checkout, and a worker that runs the queue on our own hardware. Budget gates and region scoping fail closed.

Next.js, Payload CMS, Neon, Vercel, Twilio, Lob, Stripe, on-premise worker

Live; first outreach wave in flight

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Chambers of commerce

ChamberBee Board Room

Board Room is the product a chamber of commerce’s board uses: the roster is the sign-up, the digest goes out on a schedule, and the impact report gives sponsors something to hold.

Product, brand and marketing site, designed with input from eight former chamber leaders. Sponsor placements are built into the digest and the report from day one so the chamber has a revenue line, not just a tool.

Next.js, Postgres, static marketing site with automated visual verification

In pilot conversations

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Custom map art

LocusMapsAI

Custom map art: pick a place, pick one of 31 AI styles or 10 tile styles, and get a 300 DPI print delivered. Sold direct and on Etsy, with a realtor closing-gift program.

A serverless render pipeline that stitches map tiles at print resolution on burst compute, AI styling, a framing and layout editor, print fulfillment, and a 130-asset marketing pipeline generated for about $11. First inbound commercial licensing request came from an architecture firm.

Next.js, FastAPI on Cloud Run, Modal render workers, Gemini, Gelato, Stripe, Cloudflare R2

Live since March 2026; sold direct and on Etsy

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Sales automation

The automated sales engineer

A pipeline that writes a bespoke opportunity brief for every prospect, on hardware in our own facility, with no one in the loop.

Submit a URL and a challenge; about six minutes later a branded microsite is live on its own subdomain and the prospect has an email. On-premise inference, generated code, automatic DNS and deployment.

FastAPI, Ollama on DGX Spark, Docker, Cloudflare, Resend

Live; runs PropelAI’s own prospecting

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