Send a request — an automation, an integration, a dashboard, a fix. Get a working, tested system back, usually in days. One flat monthly rate. Pause or cancel anytime.
No six-month builds. No agency layers. No new headcount. One senior builder on a flat monthly rate, shipping the systems you actually need.
Pick the plan, get your request board, and kick off the same day. No onboarding calls unless you want one.
Send whatever you need — an automation, an internal tool, an integration, a data pipeline, a bug fix. One active request at a time, as many as you'd like.
Get a working, tested system back — usually in days. Revise until it's right. Larger builds ship in staged pieces so you always see progress.
No quotes, no scope-creep fights, no surprise invoices. You know the number before you start.
Every delivery runs through automated tests and a staging pass before it touches your production. Reliability is my cost, not your risk.
Code, infrastructure, and keys are yours from day one. Cancel tomorrow and every system keeps running.
No standing meetings. Send requests on your schedule; I build on mine. Talk when it's actually useful.
You work directly with the person writing the code. No account managers, no juniors, no telephone game.
Busy month, quiet month — scale up, pause when you don't need me, and pick right back up.
A sample of what "a request" can turn into. Details generalized where the work was for a client.
Ingests an organization's accounting exports and turns them into live, drillable dashboards — per-tenant isolation, role-based access, subscription billing, and narrative summaries.
The hard part was ingestion, not charts. Every chart of accounts differs, so the parser is rule-driven and reconciled against the source before anything is shown.
Identifies underserved local service niches, generates conversion sites grounded in real pricing and reviews, and captures inbound leads through a hardened server-side pipeline.
The moat is an exclusive per-city keyword claim — a "service + city" is only ever sold once — plus capture engineered to survive no-JS and in-app browsers where ordinary forms silently fail.
A venture of my own: a design-build firm for luxury golf environments — putting complexes, simulator lounges, golf-themed offices — for high-net-worth clients in the Austin metro.
Built the whole go-to-market spine — wealth-geography targeting, a four-line offer that's cash-flow-positive on deposits, and the live site, on the same engine above.
Most requests ship within a few business days. Small automations and fixes are often same- or next-day. Larger builds are broken into staged pieces so you're always seeing working progress rather than waiting weeks for one drop.
A discrete piece of working software — an automation, an integration, a dashboard, an internal tool, a data pipeline, an API, or a fix. You can queue as many as you like; I build them one at a time, top of the queue down.
A full platform is just a sequence of requests. We break it into shippable milestones and work through the queue — you get a working piece at each step instead of a big-bang delivery at the end. If something is genuinely a large fixed-scope project, I'll tell you and we can price it separately.
Steve Dugan — one senior builder, start to finish. You're never handed to an account manager or a junior. The person you talk to is the person writing the code.
You get a shared request board (Linear / GitHub Issues / Trello — your preference). Add a request, add context, and it enters the queue. Everything's async and written down, so nothing gets lost in a call.
Python, TypeScript/Node, React/Next.js, Postgres, and AWS serverless are home turf, plus the automation and data tooling around them. If a request needs something adjacent, I'll say so upfront rather than fake it.
Yes — entirely. Everything is built in your repositories and your cloud accounts, documented, and handed over as it ships. Cancel anytime and every system keeps running without me.
Billing runs in 31-day cycles. If you run out of requests or hit a quiet stretch, pause the subscription — any unused days carry over to when you come back. You're never paying for a month you didn't use.
Then a subscription is overkill — I also take one-off fixed-scope builds. Tell me what you need and I'll quote it as a project instead.
Tell me what you need built. If a membership fits, you can start today. If it doesn't, I'll point you to the right thing.
Start today →or email hello@duganlabs.io