Custom systems for small businesses

Complexity, engineered into clarity.

I’m Von. I build custom software around the way your business actually works.

Schedules, forms, customer messages, and the details people need to get the job done, connected in one workflow.

Complexity is inevitable.
Confusion isn't.

Real work

Here’s what I’ve built.

A construction operation and a grooming shop have very different days. Here’s how I built around each one, with real screens showing how the pieces fit.

AF-001 Operational

Construction

ManeFrame OS

Actual ManeFrame OS equipment screen, with private details redacted
Equipment, grouped by recorded locationActual app · Private details removed

Built as part of my job at Watren Concrete Forming: schedules, crews, trucking, equipment, and repairs.

  • Field operations
  • Scheduling
  • Equipment
  • Trucking
Read the case study : ManeFrame OS
AF-002 Operational

Pet Care

ManeFrame Pink

Actual Barkline communication workspace, with private details redacted
Customer conversations alongside the workActual app · Private details removed

Built for my wife Kate’s grooming business: appointments, paperwork, grooming progress, and Barkline messaging.

  • Appointments
  • Client records
  • Communication
  • Paperwork
Read the case study : ManeFrame Pink

Sound familiar?

The work connects. The tools often don’t.

The schedule is in one place. The paperwork is in another. An update lands in a text, and someone has to carry it across to everything else. That’s the kind of gap I work on.

01 Spreadsheet
02 Calendar
03 Text messages
04 Whiteboard
05 Paper forms
06 Another app

Unified operating system

Scheduling Operations Customers Reporting Communication Automation

Growth creates complexity.

Complexity does not have to create confusion.

How I work

Start with the part that keeps slowing you down.

I start with the people doing the work and the tools they already use. Then I work out what needs to connect.

01

Discover

I walk through the job with you: what happens, who needs the information, and where things get stuck.

02

Map

I map the steps, the records behind them, and the handoffs between people and tools.

03

Engineer

I build a working version around that workflow, with the screens and connections it needs.

04

Refine

We walk through it together, check the handoffs, and adjust what needs to work better.

What I believe

Complexity is inevitable. Confusion isn't.

The point is to help people do the work. That’s the question I keep coming back to when I build.

Start a conversation

Let’s make the day-to-day easier to follow.

You don’t need a software plan to start a conversation. Tell me one thing you keep entering twice, chasing down, or explaining over and over.

hello@arcfoundry.io

Based in Colorado.
Let’s talk about your workflow.