Internal tools
The spreadsheet-and-three-tabs workflow your team runs fifty times a week becomes a single, purpose-built tool. Faster, fewer mistakes, easier to onboard new hires.
e.g. order intake · inventory · CRM cleanupBooking projects — Spring & Summer 2026
There's a tool you've been meaning to build. Let's build it.
I'm Ken Broholm. I build small, custom AI-powered apps for businesses that don't have an engineering team — quoting tools, internal dashboards, browser automations, customer-facing calculators. The kind of work that used to mean a six-figure engagement now ships in a few weeks, at a price that makes sense for a small business.
1–4 wks
Typical project
Fixed
Price, scoped upfront
Yours
You own the source code
+30
Days of revisions included
§ I
What I build
Six common shapesCustomer-facing apps
Calculators, lookup tools, configurators, comparison engines. The kind of thing that makes your site genuinely useful — and pulls in qualified leads while you sleep.
e.g. pricing calculators · product findersBrowser automations
Chrome extensions that handle the tedious web work — monitoring suppliers and competitors, batch lookups across vendor sites, syncing data between systems that don't talk.
e.g. stock monitors · batch warranty checksQuoting & estimating
Configurable tools so your team produces clean, itemized quotes in a minute instead of an hour. Pricing rules live in admin — change a margin without changing code.
e.g. service quotes · build estimatesData products
If you have a dataset — your records, public data, your own research — I can turn it into a searchable, comparable, actually-useful tool. For your team, or for your customers.
e.g. searchable directories · market intelMobile when needed
Sometimes the work happens away from a desk. Native iOS apps for the field team, the warehouse floor, the road — App Store-quality, built end-to-end.
e.g. field inspections · in-store companionsA year ago this tool would have cost $30,000. Now it's a few weeks.
— Why this is possible now
§ II
Recent work
Seven shipped projectsN°
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Far South Builders
The problem: a regional modular home builder was spending an hour per quote in spreadsheets, with pricing errors creeping in and no clean output to send customers. They needed a tool — but couldn't justify a long, expensive engagement.
Why it matters for you
The whole pricing model — base prices, fees, commissions, tax rules — lives in an admin panel. The business can change a margin or add a line item without ever touching code. Ships as a single .dmg / .exe.
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Serial Lookup
The problem: an IT team was spending afternoons typing laptop serial numbers one by one into Lenovo, HP, and Dell warranty sites — looking up specs and warranty status for inventory audits and replacement orders.
Why it matters for you
Paste a list of serials, walk away, come back to a finished spreadsheet. The pattern — batch lookups across multiple vendor sites — shows up in dozens of business workflows, from supplier checks to compliance audits. Data stays in the browser.
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The Wax Watch
The problem: watching for inventory changes across a dozen websites is a job nobody wants. Manually refreshing supplier or competitor pages eats hours, and almost always misses the moment that matters.
Why it matters for you
The same scheduler-plus-scraper pattern works for any inventory you depend on — supplier stock, competitor pricing, parts availability, new listings. Set it, walk away, get notified when something changes.
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04
RAM Decoder
The problem: in any technical business, a handful of senior people end up as the human lookup table for specialist knowledge. They get pinged constantly. Junior staff wait. Everyone slows down.
Why it matters for you
This is what happens when you encode specialist knowledge into a tool the whole team can use. Paste a memory part number, get the full breakdown — capacity, speed, every segment of the code translated. The same idea works for any internal "ask the expert" workflow.
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The Property Tax Almanac
The problem: useful data is often locked in spreadsheets, PDFs, and county websites that nobody wants to navigate. The data itself is valuable; the way it's presented isn't.
Why it matters for you
A messy public dataset became a polished, customer-facing product covering 667 counties across 50 states, with side-by-side comparisons and a rankings page. If you have a dataset that could draw customers, I can turn it into the kind of tool people bookmark.
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06
Lutr
The problem: some work has to happen on a phone, and a real iOS app feels different from a wrapped web view. Customers and field teams notice. The App Store has its own bar.
Why it matters for you
Lutr is a real-time LUT camera that previews cinematic color grades through the viewfinder. Beyond the niche, it's evidence I can ship a polished, native iOS app end-to-end — on-device image processing, App Store review, the whole thing — when your problem actually lives on a phone.
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Stones of Remembrance
The problem: sometimes the right product is the one that does one thing, very well, for a specific audience — no feed, no accounts, no upsell screens.
Why it matters for you
A personal iOS project built around a single, focused use case. Local-first, no backend. Proof I'll match the scope to the problem instead of over-engineering. Sometimes the best version of a tool is the small one.
§ III
How a project goes
Simple, predictable
01
Free intro call
Tell me about the tedious task. I'll tell you whether it's a fit and roughly what it would cost. No deck, no pitch.
20 min · free
02
Scoped proposal
Fixed price, clear deliverables, defined timeline. You'll know exactly what you're paying for before you sign anything.
2–3 days
03
Build
Usually 1–4 weeks. You see progress weekly. Your feedback shapes the product as we go, not at the end.
1–4 weeks
04
Ship & support
You get the working software, full source code, and 30 days of revisions. Optional retainer after that, or one-off changes as you need them.
+30 days included
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Not sure what you need yet? That's fine — the intro call is partly to help you figure that out. Most useful tools start as "we keep doing this thing manually and it's driving us crazy." Bring the symptom; we'll find the right tool together.
Got a tedious task that should be a tool?
Send me a sentence about it. If it's a fit, we'll set up a 20-minute call. If it isn't, I'll tell you that too — and probably point you toward something that is.