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Why DataVisions

Own your software. Compete with the big players.

The longer story behind the pitch: why custom software you own beats renting SaaS forever, a real project and its result, and how a senior engineer paired with AI coding agents ships in days, not quarters.

Custom vs. rented software

Pay once for what you need.
Own it forever.

The biggest savings come from starting simple on a platform that grows modularly — and from consolidating the pile of SaaS subscriptions a business accumulates. ERP tools try to solve that by forcing one rigid model on every business; we solve it by modeling yours, then extending it as you grow.

10 tools  →  one platform
Dimension
SaaS · rented
Custom · owned
Cost model
Per-seat fees, every month, forever. Scales with headcount, not value.
Pay once for what you need. Grow modularly as the business grows.
Fit to your business
Bend your processes to fit the software, or pay for endless configuration.
Software shaped to the way you already work. No process compromise.
Implementation
6–18 months. Data conversion to the vendor's schema. Change management.
Days to weeks. Your data stays in your shape. Your team stays in their flow.
Consolidation
One subscription per workflow. Ten tools, ten logins, ten contracts.
One platform. Modules added as you need them. One source of truth.
ERP alternative
Solves consolidation by forcing one rigid model on every business.
Solves consolidation by modeling your business, then growing with it.
Ownership
Vendor owns the code, the schema, the roadmap, and effectively the data.
You own the source code. Forever. We’ll even train your team to maintain it.
Maintenance
Locked to the vendor’s pace and pricing for every fix or change.
Train capable staff to maintain with AI coding agents — or call us when you need us.
Long-term TCO
Grows with seats and modules. Renewals, price hikes, integration tax.
Front-loaded once. No seats. No renewals. No vendor lock-in.
Typical project price
$5K
–
$15K
A multi-module application with role-, data-, and module-level RBAC. Designed, built, validated, deployed.
SaaS’s real competitor

Stop renting. Own it once.

No compounding licenses
Per-product, per-seat fees stack on the same users every month. Custom replaces the stack.
One cost, not forever
Paid once, not renewed. No price hikes, no seat audits, no renewal cliff.
Host it your way
Run it on your infrastructure — or cloud-hosted on your account or ours.
A measurable expectation · from a notable project

Nine modules.
One platform. Under $15K.

A field-services operator had outgrown a stack of sophisticated Excel workbooks and SaaS products repurposed to fit jobs they were never designed for. We replaced all of it with a single custom platform — shaped to their business, designed for modular growth.

Total budget
< $15K
Modules shipped
9
Source code
Owned
Today
The customer’s own team now builds new modules against the platform SDK.

We built a framework around the customer’s real business structure, then delivered nine production modules — designed, built, tested, validated, and deployed live — inside a single project budget under $15K.

Reporting reads across modules through typed connectors, and every module publishes its permissions dynamically — so reports respect the platform’s role-, data-, and module-level RBAC automatically.

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Work order & PM
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Asset management
03
Inspections · QC & meter readings
04
Custom survey builder
05
Safety & incident tracking
06
LMS · training & onboarding
07
Reviews & balanced scorecards
08
Time tracking & scheduling
09
AI reporting
Why we're rapid

Built for the era of AI coding agents.

A senior engineer paired with the best agents in the world. That's the whole pitch.

01 — Engineer + agents

Every hour is a senior consulting engineer orchestrating AI coding agents.

Claude Code, Cursor, Codex — working in parallel under a real engineer's direction. The agents do the typing, scaffolding, refactoring, and test-writing. The engineer steers, reviews, and owns every line. One senior delivers 10–20× the output of a traditional developer.

02 — Less ceremony

Lean discovery. No Jira theater.

Discovery happens — fast and focused, days not months — then we build. Working software every Friday, demos every Friday, change requests handled in your portal. Process where it earns its keep; theater nowhere. You're paying for working software, not status theater. The Client Portal shows live hours, the Kanban board, and the change-request queue 24/7.

03 — Reusable patterns

We bring a library of agent-ready blueprints.

Auth. Multi-tenant. Stripe billing. RBAC. AI features. Webhooks. Background jobs. Most projects start at 60% done because we've already built and battle-tested the boring 60%.

04 — Low overhead

No account managers. No bench. No markup.

You're paying for engineering, not a sales motion. One person owns your engagement and is reachable on Slack. That's why the rate is what it is.

The person you actually hire

Your consultant is a business‑process expert.

Your consultant brings 30+ years across small-business apps and enterprise systems — paired with AI coding agents. Decades of operating experience across accounting, labor management, payroll, time tracking & scheduling, inventory & purchasing, warehousing & logistics, work management, project management, asset management (including capital planning — cradle to grave), fleet management, and reporting & analytics.

Wide range of small-to-large engagements — from independent plumbing & HVAC shops to small and large-scale manufacturing.

Past consulting & development engagements
Past consulting & development engagements led by our founder, including work performed at prior firms.
Vanguard Resources
Integrated facilities management
Tesla
Manufacturing & production systems
Meta / Facebook
Data center operations
Frontline Booms
Concrete boom & telebelt inspections
Performance Heating & Cooling
HVAC service operations
Dematic Corp
Warehousing & logistics automation
Colorado Dept. of Corrections
Asset & work management
… and many more
Small business through Fortune 500
AccountingLabor mgmtPayrollTime trackingSchedulingInventoryPurchasingWarehousingLogisticsWork mgmtProject mgmtAsset mgmtCapital planningFleet mgmtReporting & analytics
What clients say

Six months of SaaS configuration replaced with a working app in three weeks. The team uses it every day.

VP Operations
Fortune 500 industrial OEM

I have never had a vendor present working software before sending an invoice. That alone changed how we buy.

Director of IT
Mid-market manufacturer

Replaced four spreadsheets and one $80k/year SaaS with one tool that fits how we actually run jobs.

Owner
Independent HVAC contractor
Quotes from past engagements — clients anonymized at request.
The deal

You own 100% of the source code.

From the first commit, the code lives in your GitHub organization, deploys to your cloud account, and runs on your domain. We don't hold it hostage. We don't license it back to you. We don't bury kill-switches in it.

Walk away after the 10 free hours? Keep the code. Walk away after a year? Keep the code. The only thing we sell is engineering time. Everything we make with that time is yours.

The SaaS / agency trap
  • Per-seat fees that compound forever
  • Source code locked behind their license
  • “Configuration” instead of real customization
  • Vendor owns the platform, you rent access
  • Leave the vendor — lose the work
  • Six-figure quotes for “integrations”
Working with us
  • One hourly rate. Pay only for time used.
  • Code in your GitHub from day one
  • Deploy to your cloud, your domain
  • You own it. We just helped build it.
  • Fire us — you keep everything
  • Integrations are just more billable hours