Solo software practice · Built for operations

Replace,
rewire,
rebuild — your
internal operations.

I design and build custom web applications that replace spreadsheets, scattered chats and manual approvals with software shaped exactly to your workflow.

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Where is our expense approval cycle losing days?
Stage 2 (finance review) holds 64% of total latency. Bottleneck: receipts re-uploaded via email avg. 1.8 times. A structured intake with required fields cuts cycle from 4.9d to ~1.1d.
What should we ship first?
Single-form request + 2-step routing (manager → finance). Defer multi-currency until Q4. Estimated build: 11 working days. ROI break-even at week 6.
Cycle
1.1d−77%
Errors
0.4%−83%
Visibility
100%+100%
01 — The gap

Business has changed.
Operations hasn't.

Generic SaaS expects you to bend your team around its model. Spreadsheets and WhatsApp leak data and accountability. The result: ops leaders fly blind on the work that actually runs the company.

4.9d
avg. approval
38%
rework rate
0%
visibility
Excel tabs
02 — Product

Software built for the way your business actually moves.

Each module is built from scratch to fit your exact process — not a bundle of features you'll never use.

01

Expense management

Centralized requests, multi-level approvals, audit-ready records.

02

Approval workflows

Define routing once. Requests move with clear status, owners and SLAs.

03

Inventory tracking

Live stock, transfers and reorder alerts across every location.

04

Employee operations

Onboarding, attendance, leave, assets — fitted to your policies.

05

Reporting dashboards

The exact KPIs your ops team checks daily, on one live screen.

06

Lead management

A lightweight CRM shaped to your sales motion, not a generic pipeline.

07

Task tracking

Operational checklists with accountability, deadlines and reminders.

08

Admin panels

Internal tools that match your exact data model — products, orders, partners.

03 — Case study

From a five-day approval cycle to under a day.

A 180-person distribution business replaced email approvals and three spreadsheets with a single web app — designed in two weeks, shipped in six.

Before

Expense requests over email and WhatsApp. Approvals tracked in three spreadsheets. Finance reconciled receipts manually each month.

Problems

Multi-day delays, no visibility into pending requests, missed receipts, recurring reconciliation errors.

Solution

A centralized workflow: structured intake, role-based routing, receipt uploads, live status for every stakeholder.

Approvals over time
1W1M3M
Avg time
1.2d
Approved
327
Pending
14
5d → 1d
Approval time
100%
Audit coverage
−70%
Manual work
1 screen
Visibility
04 — Why custom

Generic SaaS vs. custom internal software.

Off-the-shelf tools optimize for the average customer. Your operations aren't average.

Generic SaaS

Built for everyone, perfect for no one

  • Hundreds of features you don't use
  • Rigid workflows you bend the team around
  • Per-seat subscriptions, forever
  • Customization locked behind premium tiers
Custom internal software

Built around how your business actually runs

  • Tailored exactly to your workflow
  • Lightweight — only what your team needs
  • Owned software, predictable cost
  • Full control over data, logic and roadmap
  • Faster adoption — it looks like your business
05 — Process

A four-step engagement, designed to ship.

No proposal theatre, no quarterly roadmaps. Discovery in days, value in weeks.

01

Understand

Sit with operators, map current process, find what actually slows the team down.

02

Identify

Pinpoint the 3–5 friction points where software will create real leverage.

03

Build

Ship a focused web app in weeks, not months. Iterate with your team in the loop.

04

Deploy

Roll out with training, monitor adoption, extend as your operations evolve.

06 — About

A developer who thinks like an operator.

I build internal software for businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets but don't need a 12-person dev team. The work is practical: understand the workflow, design the smallest system that fixes it, ship it, support it.

My background sits at the intersection of operations and engineering — conversations start with your process, not the tech stack. AI-assisted development lets me ship production-grade apps in weeks, with the quality of a well-staffed team.

7+
Years in business systems
20+
Internal apps shipped
6 wks
Typical first release
07 — Clients

Operations leaders, in their words.

Our approval cycle dropped from five days to under one. The system was shaped around how we actually work — not the other way around.
Rohan Mehta
COO, Distribution & Logistics
We retired three spreadsheets and a WhatsApp group. The team adopted it in a week because it was built for them.
Anita Verma
Operations Lead, Manufacturing
Responsive, practical, fast. Felt more like an internal hire than a vendor — we keep extending the platform.
Karthik Iyer
Founder, B2B Services
08 — Get in touch

Still running operations on Excel and WhatsApp?

A 30-minute call to map your current workflow and identify what a custom system would actually change. No deck. No commitment.

Free consultation

Tell me about your operations