Work & outcomes

Built to be used — and proven by what changes afterward.

We measure success by outcomes, not deliverables. Everything on this page is real work, published with the client's permission and with details we can stand behind: what the problem was, what we built, and what changed once it was live.

Case studySolopreneur · Independent author

Sherri had three published titles and no professional home for them online — nothing that matched the quality of her work, and no way for readers to buy directly from her.

What we built:

A shop and cart with Square checkout, live shipping rates, and order confirmation, so readers buy from Sherri instead of a marketplace that takes a cut
Reader reviews held in a moderation queue until she approves them
A blog she publishes to by writing a Markdown file, not by learning a CMS
Structured data, a sitemap, canonical URLs, and a Google Shopping product feed
A fast, accessible Astro site served from Cloudflare's edge

Outcome: One home for her books that she markets on with confidence, direct sales where the margin and the customer relationship are hers, and a site she can keep current without a developer.

“Working with Nate was a wonderful experience. He created a beautiful and user-friendly website that has helped me showcase and market my book business with confidence.”
— Sherri Prins, children's book author. Read her full review on our Google Business Profile.

Client

Sherri Prins, children's book author

Stack

Astro · Tailwind CSS · Square · Supabase · Cloudflare

Status

Live at sherriprinsauthor.com

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Why only one case study? Because we publish work only when the client agrees to share it and only with details we can verify. Much of what we build is internal software — donor and program databases, board reporting, integrations — that organizations reasonably prefer to keep private. As clients agree to share their stories, they'll appear here with the same level of detail.

How we measure

Four questions every project has to answer.

A launch is not an outcome. These are the questions we ask after the software is live — and the ones you should ask any developer before you hire them.

Does the team actually use it?

Software that sits unused is a cost, not an outcome. We check adoption after launch, not just on launch day — and we build with the people who will live in the tool so it fits how they already work.

Did it remove a cost you were already paying?

Hours of re-typing, a marketplace's cut, a subscription nobody needed, decisions made on stale numbers. Every project should point to something specific that stopped costing you.

Can you run it without us?

You own the code, the accounts, and the documentation at handoff. If you can update content, add a product, or approve a review without calling a developer, the project did its job.

Did it ship on the blueprint?

Every project starts with a fixed-scope, fixed-price blueprint. The outcome we hold ourselves to is delivering what that document says, in the window it says, for the number it says.

The blueprint that every project starts from is described step by step on our how we work page, and the ranges below are the same ones published on our pricing page.

What we build

Three shapes of project, with the numbers attached.

Most engagements fall into one of these. The ranges are published so you can tell quickly whether a conversation with us is worth your time.

Focused tools & websites

$5K – $15K · 4 – 8 weeks

One well-defined problem, solved end to end. A site the owner can run, a single workflow automated, or the smallest version of a product that proves the idea.

The author website above is this shape of project.

Website modernization

Custom applications

$20K – $60K+ · 3 – 6 months

Multi-feature software that runs a real part of an operation: the database, the integrations, the admin, and the reports leadership asks for — delivered in phases so value lands early.

Typical for organizations outgrowing spreadsheets and no-code stacks.

Custom software development

Ongoing partnership

Monthly · flexible

Support, maintenance, and incremental improvements after launch, or fractional technology leadership for teams that need a technical decision-maker without a full-time hire.

Month to month, with no long-term lock-in.

Fractional CTO

Nonprofit or church? Start at technology help for nonprofits — it maps the common problems to the right kind of project.

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