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Accounting, scheduling, estimating, payments. Integrated so data moves on its own instead of getting retyped.
Custom software
Custom software for the work your team still does by hand.
We build it around your operation: it connects the systems you already use, automates the manual work between them, and puts the whole business behind one login. You keep the tools that work, and you own the code and the data.
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Nearly 20 years building enterprise software.NET · React · AI · CloudSenior-led, no hand-offs
What it does
Connect. Automate. See.
Every build does three jobs. It plugs into the systems you already run, takes over the manual work between them, and puts the whole operation on one screen.
Automate
Exports, hand-built reports, follow-ups, approvals, status chasing. The glue between systems becomes workflows that run themselves.
See
Live dashboards across every system, behind one login. For your team, your leadership, and where it helps, your customers.
What we build
From an internal tool to a customer app.
Internal tools
The admin app, the scheduler, the approval queue. The thing your team runs the day on, built to fit the way they actually work.
Customer-facing apps
Portals and apps your customers log into, with the accounts, permissions, and self-service that saves your team the phone call.
Integrations and data
Two systems that refuse to talk, a nightly sync, a pipeline feeding reporting. The plumbing that stops anyone retyping anything.
AI where it earns its keep
Document reading, request routing, drafting, follow-ups. Built into your workflows, not bolted on as a chatbot.
A real example
What one looks like once it's running.
A restoration company was running on spreadsheets. Leads, jobs, budgets, and referral sources, all tracked by hand in separate files. We replaced every one of them with one system.
ops.tidewater-restoration.com
ProjectStatusCurrent milestoneDepartmentEstimateBudgetMargin
M. Alvarez · ReconstructionIn ProgressSubcontractor agreement sentReconstruction$1,470$1,000$470
S. Clark · WaterIn ProgressInvoice package sentWater$1,930$700$1,230
C. Smith · ReconstructionIn ProgressProcess onboarding completeReconstruction$7,332$3,200$4,132
A. Novak · WaterScheduledAdjuster review scheduledWater$2,104$465$1,639
R. Mills · BiohazardIn ProgressThird-party review processBiohazard$14,865$855$14,010
The client story is real. The interface above is an illustration, with names and numbers changed.
- Leads get worked and convert into projects without anyone re-entering data
- Every job runs on a milestone template, so nothing gets skipped between mitigation and rebuild
- Budget vs. actual and projected collections live on every job, with margin locked in monthly
- Every job records where it came from, and the system flags any job missing its referral source
- Visits to referral partners are logged with their costs, so they can see what winning the work actually costs
Questions that used to take a day of spreadsheet work are now one screen: what is in the pipeline, what did we win, what is our margin this month, which relationships actually produce jobs.
How engagements work
Two ways to work. Two ways to pay.
Take the whole build off your plate, or put a senior developer inside the team you already have. Neither one bills by the hour, and you know the number before we start.
We build it
From $25,000fixed price, after a two-week paid discoveryDiscovery is a short paid engagement that ends in a written plan with a price attached. The plan is yours whether or not we build it. If we do, the number is agreed before anyone opens an editor.
- Two-week discovery, fixed fee
- Fixed price for the build, agreed up front
- Shipped in releases, so value lands early
- You own the code and the data
We join your team
Month to monthone senior developer, quoted to the engagementYou already have a team and a backlog. We work inside your repo, your stand-ups, and your review process until the work is out the door, then stop.
- Month to month, ends when the work does
- No recruiter fee, no ramp-up on your side
- Architecture and code review included
- Scale up or down as the work changes
Process
From first call to software you own.
- 01
A call about the manual work
The systems you run and the work that happens by hand between them. You get a straight answer: build it, buy something that already exists, or leave it alone.
- 02
Two weeks of discovery
A paid, fixed-fee plan: what to build, what it connects to, and what it costs. The plan is yours whether or not we build it.
- 03
Built in releases
Fixed price, shipped in focused releases, so the most valuable part of the operation improves first instead of everything landing at the end.
- 04
Then it keeps moving
Hosting, support, and new reports and automations as the business changes, on a monthly partnership. The code and the data are yours.
Already built
Before you build, check what already runs.
Forge and NLC Portals run on the platform we build on. If one fits, subscribe instead of paying for a build. If you outgrow it, your own version starts from there.
Relationship intelligence · Live demo
Forge
$450/month founding price · month to month
Which relationships actually bring a firm its business: the introductions, referral sources, opportunities, and follow-ups, with every producer included.
Annual option: $349/month, billed as $4,188 a year.
Restoration contractors · Live demo
NLC Portals for restoration
$499/month founding price · month to month
Keep your crew, equipment, and job documentation in one place. Assign the next step, capture inspections and readings in the field, and review the same job file in the office.
Standard monthly price: $699. Annual founding option: $399/month, billed as $4,788 a year.
Principal-led
Built by someone who still does the work.
Nick Chiafullo
President, NLC Consulting
"What clients actually hire me for is judgment: building the right solution, keeping it maintainable, and owning it from idea to production. If you're spending more time fighting your software than running your business, that's a fixable problem."
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Tell us what your team still does by hand.
List the systems you use and the manual steps between them, or describe the thing you need built. We come back with a straight answer on scope, price, and how fast the first useful piece can land.
Prefer direct? nick@nlc.consulting or (856) 522-4261