CUSTOM TOOLS · SMALL & MID-SIZED BUSINESS
Build your own compass.
We read how your business actually runs, then build the tool to navigate by it. Made to fit you specifically, not a platform you bend yourself to fit.
WHY BUILD
Everyone’s rethinking their internal tools.
The market is crowded, and every option was built for someone else’s business. So how do you know which one actually fits yours? You’ve outgrown the spreadsheet, and the enterprise platforms cost more than they’re worth while still not matching how you work. The surer move is to build the one tool you know fits, because it’s built around you.
The spreadsheet
It got you here. Now it’s cracking under the weight, living in one person’s head, and breaking every time someone touches the wrong cell.
The enterprise platform
Ten times more than you need, a license you rent forever, and months of bending your business to fit software built for someone much bigger.
A tool built for you
One tool, shaped to exactly how you work. Built quickly and efficiently, for a fraction of a dev team or an enterprise contract. It fits because it was made to.
WHAT WE DO
A builder who understands how much data-driven decisions move your business.
Compass BI started in business intelligence, so we don’t just write software. We build tools that hand you the intel behind the decision, not just a place to store the data. Three ways to work with us.
The BI is for Business Intelligence. Most firms stop at the dashboard, a report on what already happened. We use that intelligence to build the tool your business runs on next.
Build
Custom web apps and internal tools, scoped and quoted as a project, with a small monthly fee to keep the lights on. This is the core of what we do, and where most engagements land.
The core offerBI & reporting
Dashboards and reporting on the platforms you already use. Reading data well is the reason the tools we build surface the right things, not just more things.
The specialtyStart with an assessment
Not sure what you need? We’ll look at your business and your data and tell you straight. Often it’s the first step toward a build.
The way inSELECTED WORK
Tools we’ve built.
Two of our own. Each one started the same way yours would: a real business, a real bottleneck, and a tool shaped to fit it.
crm-lyte
A lightweight CRM built for a B2B distributor who’d outgrown spreadsheets but didn’t want a bloated enterprise suite. Accounts, deals, campaigns and pipeline in one place, shaped around how they actually sell, with the data-safety guardrails an off-the-shelf tool won’t give you.
scaffold
A thin metrics layer over Google Tasks. It surfaces the top-line numbers a team needs to see without replacing the tool they already live in. A small, sharp tool that fills one gap and stays out of the way.
Client identities kept private. We’ll show more detailed walk-throughs on request.
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps. No surprises.
Assess
We learn your business and your data: how work really flows, where it jams, and what the numbers are trying to tell you.
Build
We build the tool fast, using modern tooling to move quickly. You see it take shape instead of waiting months for a reveal.
Run
It fits from day one because it was built around you. We can keep evolving it as the business changes.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Questions people ask before they call.
A custom build is a one-time project cost instead of a license you pay forever. For most small and mid-sized businesses it comes in well under the multi-year cost of an enterprise platform, and far under hiring a full-time dev team. We scope and quote each project up front, so you know the number before we start.
Those builders are great for a quick prototype. The gap shows up later: data safety, access control, clean migrations, and the judgment to build the right thing instead of the first thing. We move just as fast, backed by real experience in business intelligence, so what you get holds up when the business leans on it.
Usually the opposite. Small teams feel a broken process hardest, and they’re the ones who can’t afford to rent an enterprise suite. A focused tool that does exactly what you need, and nothing you don’t, is often the cheapest way out of the spreadsheet.
Most first versions land in weeks, not months. We use modern tools to move fast in a quickly changing market, and we’ve done this before. We start small, get a working tool in your hands early, then refine from there.
Often we replace it. A lot of businesses are holding things together with a patchwork of tools and manual steps, and that stack quietly costs money every month. We look at what you’re actually paying for and using, then build something that consolidates it, so you cut the duct tape and the recurring bills along with it. When a tool is genuinely worth keeping, we build around it instead.
START HERE
Point your business in the right direction.
Tell us what’s slowing you down. We’ll tell you straight whether a tool would fix it, and roughly what it would take. No pitch, no obligation.