You can afford
custom software.
The tools your shop actually needs do not require an enterprise budget or a year of discovery. They require a developer who already knows the trade.
We'll build your prototype for free. No seriously.
A working tool for your shop, running on your real numbers, that you can put in front of your crew. It costs nothing, and you owe nothing if you walk away. We are taking a limited number of these over the next few months.
Free prototyping.
The hardest part of buying custom software is that you have to commit money before you can see whether it fits. We are removing that step for the next few months.
What you get
A working prototype of one tool for your shop. Real interface, real logic, your rates and your product data in it. It runs in a browser on a link we send you, so your team can use it on an actual job instead of nodding at a screenshot.
What it costs
Nothing. No deposit, no discovery retainer, no card on file. If you look at what we built and decide it is not for you, that is the end of it and you owe us nothing. We are not going to invoice you for a conversation.
What happens next
If you want the real thing, we quote a flat price to finish it and you decide. If you don't, you keep the prototype. Either way you have learned exactly what custom software for your shop looks like, which is more than a proposal ever tells you.
Don't take our word for it. Go use it.
These are not mockups or case studies. They are production tools we built to run our own shade and AV business. They are free, and you can open every one of them right now. Start with OnSite.
OnSite: the van is the office
If you want to know what we mean by bespoke software, stop reading and go use OnSite. It is the tool we built to run our own shade and AV business from a phone in the field, it is live, it is free, and a one-tap demo workspace means you do not have to sign up to look around.
It is organized around the job site instead of a sales pipeline, because that is how the work actually happens. Quote the job standing in the room. Let the calendar work out the driving. Keep the photos and the equipment history on the site itself, where the next person to show up will look for them.
- Drop a pin instead of typing an address
- Catalog-driven quotes with branded PDF export
- Calendar that auto-plots drive time and mileage between stops
- Multiple sites ordered into the shortest route
- Photos and equipment history attached to the site, not a folder
- Site info readable with no signal in the field
- Installs to the phone's home screen like a native app
Now picture the same thing with your product catalog, your labor rates, and your crew's workflow in it, under your name. That is the free prototype.
Drop a window on a map, set its bearing, and watch the sun's path play out across any month. It predicts exactly when direct glare hits, models shadow, and settles the fabric and automation conversation before a single shade is ordered.
A guided takeoff organized by project and room: width, height, sill height, mount depth, wire location, and compass bearing per window. Replaces a clipboard of scribbles with clean, structured data that survives the trip back to the office.
A full community platform for tradespeople: per-trade boards, threaded discussion, voting, image posts. Proof we can take something well past a single-purpose tool and keep it running in production.
Two dozen games we wrote to stay sharp: a murder-mystery MUD, a push-your-luck dice duel, a full artillery ballistics sim. Not a sales argument, but it is the honest answer to whether we can actually build things, and everything on it runs in a browser.
A Bloomberg-style market terminal in the browser: keyboard-driven command line, live panels, and a real backend behind it. Here because it shows what "dashboard" can mean when it is built properly rather than assembled out of widgets.
Search by zip or by where you are standing, set a radius, filter by category, and read the results as a list, a calendar, or a map. It pulls from public sources and community posts, and anyone can add an event for free. A working product with real data behind it, not a demo.
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
Three reasons you haven't done this yet.
Every dealer we talk to has the same three assumptions about custom software. All three are priced off a model that does not apply here.
Most of that quote is a stranger learning your business. We already run a shade and AV shop, and we have already built the quoting and takeoff tools for it. You are not funding somebody's education in what a keder track is.
One workflow, one tool, one price agreed up front. If it is going to be wrong, you find that out in week two, not month nine.
It runs in a browser on boring, well-documented technology, and your data exports. No per-seat licence that grows teeth, no vendor who has to stay alive for your quoting to work.
What we build for dealers
If your team runs it out of a spreadsheet, a clipboard, or somebody's memory, it can be a tool. These are the jobs we take most often, and the plain web work at the bottom is on the same menu.
- Quoting & estimating
- Your labor rates, your catalog, your margin rules. The same number from every estimator on the team, and a branded PDF the client can sign.
- Field takeoff & measurement
- Width, height, sill, mount depth, wire location, bearing. Captured on a phone room by room, not transcribed off a photo of a napkin.
- Scheduling & routing
- Job-site calendars that plot drive time and mileage between stops and order the day into the shortest route.
- Client-facing proposals
- A link instead of a PDF attachment. Options and approvals the homeowner can follow, and you can see when it was opened.
- Dashboards & reporting
- The four numbers you actually run on, live, pulled from what you already use instead of rebuilt by hand every Monday.
- White-labelling our tools
- The fastest path. Take something we have already built, put your brand and pricing on it, hand it to the crew this month.
We're a full-range web shop, not just a tools boutique.
Not every job needs a quoting engine. If what you actually need is a website that loads fast, reads well on a phone, and doesn't look like it was built in 2012, that is the same team and the same fixed-price process. Plenty of dealers come to us for the website first and the tools later.
- Website design and build
- Landing pages and campaign microsites
- E-commerce and online ordering
- Client portals and logins
- Hosting, domains, and email setup
- Rescues and redesigns of a site you inherited
How it actually works
Four steps, and you do not spend a dollar until step three.
Tell us what eats your week
One call. Describe the workflow that costs you the most time or the most rework. If we do not think software is the right fix, we will say so on that call and you will have spent nothing.
We build a prototype. Free.
We take the workflow apart and build a working version of the tool with your rates and your data in it. You get a live link. Your crew uses it on a real job. This costs you nothing and there is no obligation attached to it.
Fixed scope, fixed price, only if you want it
Having used the thing, you decide whether to finish it. If yes, you get a written scope of exactly what it does, what it does not do, and one number it costs. Changes get quoted, they do not get billed by surprise. If no, we shake hands and you keep the prototype.
It's yours
Deployed under your domain, your branding, your data. We will host and maintain it if you want that, and hand you the keys if you do not. Either way you are not trapped.
Four ways in. The first one is free.
Priced for a dealership, not for a venture-backed startup. Every engagement is quoted flat before it starts.
Prototype
A working version of one tool for your shop, built free so you can decide with something real in your hands.
- Real working software, not a mockup
- Your rates and data in it
- Live link your crew can use on a job
- No deposit, no obligation
- Keep it either way
Website Build
A site that loads fast, reads well on a phone, and looks like the company you actually run.
- Design and build, start to finish
- Your domain, your branding
- Written for search, not stuffed
- Hosting and updates handled
- Redesigns and rescues too
Fixed-Scope Tool
One workflow, built to fit your shop exactly. The typical starting point for a dealer who has one process that is clearly broken.
- Written scope and one flat price
- Built around your actual process
- Working link in your hands early
- Deployed under your domain
- You own the result
Platform Partner
For dealers building out a full internal stack over time. We become the software side of your business.
- Multiple connected tools
- Integration with what you already run
- Priority support and changes
- Roadmap planned with you quarterly
We still install shades, screens, and AV.
Durratek is a working CEDIA-certified integrator across Dallas–Fort Worth, and that is not a legacy line on an About page. It is the reason every tool above exists. If you came here for an install rather than a tool, that side of the business has its own page.
What's the workflow you'd fix first?
Tell us the one that costs you the most time. We will tell you on the first call whether it is worth building, roughly what it takes, and whether you would be better off buying something off the shelf. That call is free and there is no pitch deck.