Custom software for operating businesses

Describe the bottleneck. Get working software.

widn builds the one system your business is missing — the thing between "we do this by hand every week" and "it just happens." Built in weeks, not quarters. Owned by you, not rented. Running in your building or your cloud.

Price my bottleneck — 60 seconds See how it works Five quick questions — including the math on what it's costing you a year.
You own the code Nothing goes out without your OK Fixed prices, no hourly Runs fully local if you want it

Sound familiar?

Every operating business has one step where the work piles up — held together by one person, a spreadsheet, and memory. Four versions of the same story we hear every week:

"Quoting takes us three days. The job goes to whoever answers first."

Machine shop

"We miss calls because we're on ladders. Missed calls are missed jobs."

Roofing company

"My office manager loses every Friday reconciling delivery-app payouts."

Restaurant

"Patient intake is four pieces of paper and the same info typed in twice."

Clinic

None of these need another software subscription. They need one system built around how you already work — and someone accountable for keeping it running.

And sometimes it isn't a bottleneck at all — it's a tool you wish existed: a calculator your industry doesn't have, a portal your customers keep asking for, a dashboard that shows the number you check every morning. We build those too.

How it works

Three steps. Prices on the table before we start — hourly billing rewards slowness, so we don't do it.

Step 1 · Half a day

The Audit

$750 — credited toward your build

We spend half a day inside your operation. You get a one-page map of your three most expensive bottlenecks, priced in your own hours and dollars, plus a fixed quote to fix the worst one. Keep the map either way.

Step 2 · 2–6 weeks

The Build

$3,000 – $15,000 fixed

One bottleneck, one working system. Quoted before we start, demoed on your real work, and nothing goes out the door to a customer without your sign-off. If it isn't earning its keep in month one, we make it right.

Step 3 · Ongoing

The Watch

from $400 /month

Systems break silently — ours are watched. We monitor everything we build, fix problems before you notice them, and ship a small improvement every month. Cancel anytime and everything keeps running; it's yours.

Why widn

The name is the job: we find the narrowest point in your operation and widen it.

Yours to take, anytime

The code, the data, the system — all yours. We run it day to day so you never touch a server or a repository, but there's no lock-in and no hostage situation: fire us anytime, everything keeps working, and it all transfers to you within a week.

Local, if you want it

We build native Windows and Mac software that runs in your building. Your drawings, your patient records, your pricing — none of it has to touch anyone else's cloud. Almost nobody else offers this — ask the other shops you're talking to.

Humans stay in charge

Modern AI makes us fast — it's the power tool, not the craftsman. Anything that reaches your customers (a quote, an invoice, an email) waits for a human yes. Yours or ours, always someone's.

Fixed prices, published

You saw our prices before we ever spoke — they're on this page. Every project is a fixed quote against a fixed scope, so the risk of an estimate being wrong is ours, not yours.

Built for businesses where the work is real

We work with operating companies — where data is messy, the work is physical, and off-the-shelf software never quite fits.

Trades & home services Machine shops & fabrication Clinics & practices Restaurants & food service Local logistics Yours — tell us

Tell us your slowest step.

Describe the thing your business does by hand that it shouldn't — or the tool you've always wanted built. We'll tell you straight whether it's worth doing, and exactly what it costs if it is. Replies within one business day.

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What's the bottleneck?

In your own words — what does your business do by hand that it shouldn't? Or describe the tool you wish you had.

How often does it bite?
Let's do the math.

Where does your data have to live?

Some businesses can't have drawings, patient records, or pricing on someone else's cloud. We build for both.

Where do we send the answer?

Or email hello@widn.co if forms aren't your thing.