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Custom Build
The thing you need does not exist, or exists as a $500-a-month subscription that does 80% of it wrong.
- Price
- From $5,000, most land $5,000 to $12,000
- Delivery
- Most under 90 days
A Custom Build is a piece of software written for one shop's specific problem, scoped and priced after a walkthrough, and handed over with the source code. It is what a business automation consultant should do: build the tool, then leave.
Custom software for a small business, priced before we start
The same five steps apply. We walk the shop, write a one-page brief with the price and the definition of done, build the smallest working version, test it with the crew, and hand it over with the code. If the brief says no, you keep the brief.
Business automation without the subscription
Most automation a shop needs is a few well-placed connections between systems it already pays for. We build those connections to run under your accounts, so nothing renews to us and nothing breaks when we leave.
AI in the shop, where it works
An assistant that reads your service manuals and past invoices and answers a tech's question in the truck is useful. A chatbot on the website usually is not. We say which is which before anything gets built.
What gets built
- Inventory and truck-stock apps
- Customer portals
- Quoting tools tied to your pricebook
- Two systems that refuse to talk to each other
- An assistant that reads your invoices and manuals
- Price
- From $5,000, most land $5,000 to $12,000
- Delivery
- Most under 90 days
The walkthrough picks the builds your shop needs. You get a one-page brief with the exact price before anything starts.
Questions about Custom Build
Before you ask.
Everything. Source code, documentation, admin access to every account. No subscription to Fiveline.
It is built to run without us and documented so anyone competent can pick it up. A 30-day check-in is included. Retainers, if you want one, are capped at 90 days.
Knowledge and Handoff
What the owner knows, written down and in a system you own.
Cash and Numbers
See the money: dashboard, job costing, collections, lender pack.
Crew and Field
Dispatch, field workflow and training the techs helped design.
Customers and Phones
After-hours calls, RFQs and estimate follow-up that do not fall through.
All five
The Year-One Pass
The five lines sequenced across your first twelve months.
Tell us about the shop.
Thirty minutes. You describe the business. We tell you what we would fix first and what it costs. No deck.