Custom software & AI for small business
We build custom software and weave AI into your day-to-day — auto-posting to your site, taking online orders, answering customers, and syncing bookings — so you win back hours and never miss a sale.
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→ more sales, less busywork
what we do
Custom software, practical AI, security, and senior advice under one roof. We build what you need, automate what slows you down, and keep it safe as you grow.
Greenfield product builds and rescue engagements — threat-modeled, OWASP-aligned, and secure from the first commit. You own everything we ship.
LLM and agent integrations into your existing apps — with prompt-injection defenses, evaluation pipelines, and governance so AI adds value without adding risk.
Red-team operations, threat hunting, detection engineering, and cloud + identity hardening — led by a credentialed threat-emulation engineer.
A senior technologist in your corner — strategy, digital transformation, and fractional-CTO guidance so you make the right build, buy, and AI calls without a full-time hire.
Why Stelviq
We automate the repetitive work — posts, orders, replies, invoices — so your team spends the day on customers, not busywork.
Practical AI wired into the tools you already use, aimed at real outcomes: more sales, faster service, and fewer missed leads.
Everything we build is hardened the way a security team would demand — so growth never comes at the cost of a breach.
You work directly with a credentialed engineer from the first call to launch. Small by design, senior by default.
see it in action
Pick an industry — each flow is the kind of always-on system we build, from the first message to money in the bank.
Barbershop — an AI concierge books the chair, takes payment, and fills the calendar.
01 · AI concierge books it
02 · secure checkout
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Pay $35.00Payments secured by Stripe
03 · barber’s dashboard
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selected work
A small portfolio of work shipped, risk reduced, and AI features integrated. Specifics over slogans.
A family-owned Tex-Mex restaurant got a modern website with “Paco,” an AI host that answers menu questions 24/7 and takes phone-verified pickup orders — pay at pickup or online — turning the site into an always-on front-of-house with no per-order commission.
the founder
Threat-Emulation Engineer & Founder
A background spanning software engineering, infrastructure, and offensive security — B.S. in Cybersecurity & Information Assurance, with certifications across red teaming, cloud, and defense. Every engagement is led hands-on.
good to know
We build custom software, weave AI into the tools you already use, and secure all of it — under one security-first mindset. Build, integrate, defend, advise: founder-led from the first call to launch.
Yes — small businesses are exactly who this is for. You don’t need a data team or a six-figure budget. A single focused automation — an AI assistant that answers customers and books jobs, invoices that send themselves, blog and social posts drafted and scheduled for you — can start around $1,000. Larger custom platforms start at $10,000. We scope to your budget and start where the payback is fastest, so the first project helps fund the next one.
The unglamorous work that eats your week. Back of house: orders taken 24/7, bookings synced to your calendar, jobs dispatched to the right person, records kept current. Marketing: SEO blog posts and social content written, designed, scheduled, and published on a steady cadence — without you opening a laptop. Money: invoices generated and sent the moment a job is done, payment links included, reminders chased automatically. It runs while you sleep, and it never calls in sick.
No — it removes the busywork around them. Your people stop copying data between apps, chasing invoices, and answering the same question for the tenth time, and spend the day on customers and craft instead. The goal is a team that does more without growing headcount.
Focused automations start around $1,000. Custom software builds start at $10,000, AI integrations at $5,000, and security engagements at $15,000. Fractional-CTO advisory is $2,500 per month. Every quote is fixed and scoped after a short discovery call — no hourly surprises.
That is the part most shops skip. Every integration is threat-modeled, hardened against prompt injection, and governed so the AI only sees and does what it should. We keep your data out of model training wherever the provider allows, and you get the reasoning in writing.
Yes. You own the code and the accounts — no vendor lock-in, no per-transaction commission. If you ever want to bring it in-house or hand it to another team, everything is documented to make that painless.
Every engagement starts with a discovery and threat-model workshop so we scope the real problem. From there you get a fixed plan, a secure-by-default build, and clear deliverables — founder-led throughout.
Yes. Send a brief and we will return a signed NDA — usually the same business day — before you share anything sensitive.
Most briefs get a founder reply within 5–10 business days.
Send a brief and get a founder’s reply — most land within 5–10 business days. NDAs turned around same business day.