Brandon Howard Your ERP Runs on One Person's Memory. That's a Risk You Can't See. Ask yourself one question: if the person who knows how your ERP actually works took a two-week vacation, could your finance team close the month? For a distributor doing tens of millions in revenue, t... Business Automation Custom Development Legacy Software Software Strategy Technology Decisions Aug 12, 2026
Brandon Howard Custom Orders Keep Coming Out Wrong. The Problem Is Your Software, Not Your Salespeople. Your salespeople are not careless. They are working inside a system that lets them get the order wrong. We sat down with a company that builds custom products to order, the kind of business where ever... Business Automation Custom Development Small Business Software Strategy Aug 10, 2026
Brandon Howard Your 20-Year-Old Desktop Software Won't Survive Windows 11 There is a class of software that keeps small businesses alive and nobody writes about. It is a desktop application, built twenty years ago, that people open every single day to do their real work. Cl... Custom Development Legacy Software Small Business Software Strategy Technology Decisions Aug 5, 2026
Brandon Howard What 'Developer-Led' Actually Means: A Day in the Life Every software company tells you they have great developers. It is the industry equivalent of a restaurant saying they have fresh ingredients. True or not, it tells you nothing about what you are actu... Business Growth Custom Development Small Business Software Strategy Jul 31, 2026
Brandon Howard Your $200K Software Project Failed. Now What? We get a specific kind of phone call. It starts the same way every time. The business owner is frustrated but not angry. More exhausted than anything. They spent months, sometimes years, on a custom s... Custom Development Legacy Software Small Business Software Strategy Jul 29, 2026
Brandon Howard Your Business Has the Data AI Needs. Your Systems Just Cannot Serve It Yet. Every company we walk into has the same thing: 10 to 20 years of operational data. Customer records. Transaction histories. Production logs. Compliance documents. Inventory movements. Support tickets.... AI Business Automation Custom Development Legacy Software Technology Decisions Jul 27, 2026
Brandon Howard Your Payment System Is Charging the Wrong Fee. The Fix Is 3 Lines of Code. Finding Those 3 Lines Took a Week. The surface problem: a wrong fee The symptom was clear. Patients were seeing a 3 percent surcharge on debit card payments. The surcharge was inconsistent. Some debit cards were charged correctly. Othe... Business Automation Custom Development Healthcare Software Strategy Jul 24, 2026
Brandon Howard 4 Days to Modernize 15 Years of Technical Debt: What a Manufacturing Company Taught Us About Speed Day 1: understanding what the system actually does Most modernization projects start with a technology decision. What framework are we moving to? What cloud provider? What database? This one started w... Custom Development Legacy Software Manufacturing Technology Decisions Jul 22, 2026
Brandon Howard Building Multi-Tenant SaaS: Architecture Decisions That Scale Building Multi-Tenant SaaS: Architecture Decisions That Scale Every SaaS product hits the same fork in the road early on: how do you let multiple customers share the same platform without their data b... Custom Development Software Strategy Technology Decisions Feb 27, 2026
Brandon Howard What Business Owners Should Know About Code Ownership and Vendor Lock-In Here's something we see all the time: a business owner calls us in a panic because they just realized they don't actually own the software they paid to have built. Maybe their agency went dark. Maybe ... Custom Development Small Business Software Strategy Feb 25, 2026
Brandon Howard How to Choose a Custom Software Partner: A Checklist for Business Leaders How to Choose a Custom Software Partner: A Checklist for Business Leaders Picking the wrong software development partner is expensive. Not just in dollars, though those add up fast. The real cost is t... Business Growth Custom Development Software Strategy Feb 23, 2026
Brandon Howard The Real Estate Data Problem: Aggregating Property Records Across 35+ Counties The Real Estate Data Problem: Aggregating Property Records Across 35+ Counties If you work in Texas real estate, you already know the drill. You need property tax data for a parcel in Harris County, s... Business Automation Custom Development Real Estate Feb 18, 2026
