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, the places where spreadsheets, paper, or legacy tools are costing time and money. After we build the software, we stay on for ongoing engineering, so you never need a dev team or a server admin.

Every build is quoted fixed-scope after a short intro call: you see the number before any work starts, and it does not move unless the scope does.

Cost depends on how many workflows the software covers and what it integrates with, so a real estimate takes one conversation, not a rate card. Ongoing engineering after launch is quoted the same way.

If a project is small enough that custom software does not pencil out, we will tell you that on the call and point you at a SaaS product that fits.

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. The door is always unlocked.

Three safeguards.

1. You own everything. Code, database, infrastructure config. Your systems keep running, and any PHP engineer can pick up where we 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 ongoing engineering have a small bench of senior engineers we trust 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 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 ongoing engineering costs a fraction of that, covers a shipped system with on-call response, 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 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.

Most clients keep Solvyr on after launch for ongoing application engineering. That covers:

• Keeping the system deployed and healthy in your accounts
• On-call response when something breaks
• Automated database backups with regular restore verification
• Security patches + dependency updates
• Same-day email + text response
• An allowance of minor changes each 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.

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.

Usually, yes. Once both sides are seriously evaluating an engagement, we arrange a reference conversation with a current or recent client whose project is a reasonable match for yours, subject to that client agreeing to the call.

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