Take Control.
Custom operations software for businesses that have outgrown off-the-shelf SaaS. Designed and built by two founders leveraging AI to ship in days, not months. No handoffs, no juniors.
The work, on display.
Six live products and prototypes across hospitality, payroll, retail, and back-of-house. Each one started as a problem someone said couldn't be solved cleanly.
Control:Shift
Shift scheduling and tracking, simplified.
Control:Ledger
The freelancer's office, on one screen.
Control:Slip
Payroll, scheduling, and HR — done in one evening.
Control:Echo
Every review answered, in your voice.
Control:Tower
The Suite Brain — one read-out across your Control stack.
Control:Pantry
Know your kitchen, to the gram.
Four practices. One studio.
Control is one studio for the whole stack. The messy, multi-shaped problem — the one that doesn't fit inside any vendor's box — is the one we want.
Custom software
Production-grade apps and tools built for your exact workflow — not bent around someone else's SaaS.
AI automations
From copy drafting to invoice reading to customer triage. We pair the right model with the right plumbing.
System replacement
We don't build middleware to patch together your broken SaaS stack. We build the single, unified system that replaces it.
Internal tooling
Dashboards, admin panels, ops consoles. The unglamorous interfaces that quietly compound time saved.
A short loop. Run on repeat.
Listen
We start with your actual workflow — not a discovery template. The most useful tool is often something nobody asked for.
Build
Quick, real prototypes. You see working software in days, not slide decks in weeks.
Ship
Deployed, instrumented, supported. We stay in the room after launch — that's where most of the wins actually live.
Two principals. No middlemen.
Control is run by its founders. You talk directly to the people doing the work — no account managers in the middle, no juniors learning on your dime, no surprise handoffs.
About the teamWhat you'll want to know.
Who owns the code?
You do, day one. The repository is yours; we build on widely-used open standards (Next.js, Node, Postgres) so any competent engineering team can take over without translation. No proprietary lock-in, no hostage data.
What if you two get hit by a bus?
The stack is deliberately boring — Next.js, Node, Postgres, common cloud. Any senior engineer or studio can pick up the codebase without a learning curve. Deployment access and documentation live with you, not us.
How does pricing work?
Fixed-fee for builds, monthly for hosted products. You see the number before we start — no blank-check hourly billing, no scope-creep invoices. If a build needs to grow, we agree on the new price first.
Have a problem worth solving?
Tell us what's in the way. We'll come back with a plan, an opinion, and probably a few AI tools you didn't know existed.