Your operation needs more than packaged software can provide.
A focused application can support the workflow, roles, approvals, field activity, customer experience, or decision your existing tools leave unresolved.
Explore custom software →custom business software, integration, and automation
Software should earn its keep.
Stackporch designs, builds, integrates, and improves business software around measurable operational value. Start with what should work better, prove the economics, then build only the smallest responsible solution.
problem→evidence→smallest change→measured result
Fixed scopeA bounded paid step before implementation-level money is at risk.
Direct accountabilityYou work with the founder making the technical and commercial decisions.
Build / no-build answerProcess, configuration, integration, or no build can be the right outcome.
Value measuredEvery build has an owner, baseline, target, evidence, and review date.
choose the problem you have
Three ways to make the operation work better.
Each begins with evidence, a bounded decision, and a deliverable you can keep.
The work happens. The workflow does not.
Requests arrive in too many places. Employees enter the same information twice. Jobs wait for handoffs. Invoices leave late. Reporting depends on spreadsheets only one person understands.
Improve a costly workflow →The software exists. The outcome does not.
A build stalled, a vendor left, or nobody can confidently deploy, secure, or maintain the system. Get a clear finish, rebuild, replace, or retire decision.
Assess troubled software →the stackporch standard
No shiny tools. No unmeasured features.
Shipping is not success. Sustained adoption with verified financial impact is.
Measure the problemName the affected workflow, owner, users, baseline, and cost of the current state.
Model the economicsCompare process, configuration, integration, and custom software against full lifecycle cost and credible value.
Deliver the smallest changeUse bounded scope, written acceptance, client-controlled assets, and an adoption plan.
Review the resultEach phase earns an expand, revise, hold, or retire decision from observed evidence.
Software is not automatically the answer.
If process improvement, configuration, or integration can produce the result more economically, I will recommend that instead of custom code.
how an engagement works
A small paid step first. Always.
Every engagement creates a useful decision before implementation-level money is committed.
Diagnose
Map the workflow or codebase, establish ownership and access, and quantify the exposure.
Prove
Deliver a value case or rescue verdict, options, costs, risks, and a build/no-build recommendation.
Deliver
Use bounded milestones, written acceptance criteria, and client-controlled code and accounts.
Measure
Review adoption and value at 30, 60, and 90 days before expanding the investment.
paid first steps
Buy the decision before you buy the build.
Every assessment is fixed-scope and fixed-price. Stackporch’s $200/hour rate card builds the price; the scope determines the hours.
ROI & Workflow Blueprint
fixed after scope
Current workflow, baseline economics, failure points, options, smallest valuable phase, and a measurement-backed build/no-build recommendation.
Explore the blueprint →Custom Solution Assessment
fixed after scope
Users, roles, workflow, data, integrations, risks, prototype, ownership model, and an implementation plan with explicit acceptance criteria.
Explore custom software →Software Rescue Assessment
fixed after scope
Ownership, architecture, security, delivery, data, and operability evidence—with a finish, rebuild, replace, or retire recommendation.
Explore software rescue →technical depth, applied carefully
The recommendation can follow the problem across systems.
This is not a catalogue of things to buy. It means Stackporch does not force every problem into a new application.
Applications & portals
Service tracking, approvals, customer and employee portals, field capture, internal tools, and focused operational systems.
Workflow, integrations & Microsoft 365
APIs, automation, Teams, SharePoint, Entra, vendor handoffs, reconciliation, and reliable exception handling.
Cloud, data, analytics & responsible AI
Azure, AWS, governed metrics, semantic models, decision support, evaluations, observability, and cost ownership.
Security, privacy & operational ownership
Authorization, data flows, recovery, evidence, application security, risk ownership, and validated remediation.
recent work
Proof without theatre.
Stackporch publishes what can be substantiated and leaves unmeasured claims out.
ground-up delivery
From written specification to an operating multi-agent platform
I designed and delivered seven coordinated agents, an operator console, suppression controls, and an auditable action history. The platform reached production and supports Stackporch’s own operating motion.
software takeover
From undeliverable codebase to production
A national fitness brand had a SharePoint and Node platform the prior development shop could not finish. I took over the codebase, stabilized it, completed the agreed scope, and delivered it into production in the client’s tenant and accounts.
direct founder accountability
One accountable builder from first question to final handoff.
I’m Josh Thurmer, founder of Stackporch. There is no sales handoff and no delivery team hidden behind the proposal.
I keep a deliberately small book of active work so I can understand the operation, make responsible technical decisions, and remain accountable after launch.