Borealis

You know what your business needs. I turn it into a plan and a system.

More than a developer, less than an agency: one senior consultant who scopes it, prices it, builds it, and hands it over running, with 12+ years of shipped production software behind every decision.

100% Job Success across 36 projects, Top Rated verify on Upwork

WHERE YOU START spreadsheets + email a half-built prototype systems that don't talk STAGE 1 · SCOPE A scoped plan backlog + wireframes + architecture estimate + risks + decision memo fixed price, weeks 1 to 3 stage 2: build you can stop at the plan. most clients don't. Working software deployed + monitored + documented accounts in your name built in stages, highest bleed first · one person owns it end to end
The engagement, drawn
36 projects delivered
100% Job Success
12+ years shipping production software
1 person accountable, end to end

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Start where you are

Three situations bring most people here

You run the business on spreadsheets and email

Quoting, scheduling, or job tracking lives in Excel and somebody's head. It worked at five people. It is breaking at fifteen.

Replace the duct tape →

You have something half-built

A freelancer disappeared, or an AI tool got you 70% of the way. Now you need someone to finish it properly and make it safe to rely on.

Get it finished →

Your systems don't talk to each other

The CRM, the accounting tool, and the ops spreadsheet each hold a piece of the truth. People re-type data between them every day.

Connect them →

How the engagement runs

The plan comes first

Whichever situation brings you here, the engagement runs the same way: I scope it, I price it, I build it, and I hand it over running. Scoping comes first because it is how I make sure the thing that gets built is the thing your business actually needs.

01 Scope weeks 1 to 3 · fixed price

How the work actually flows, and what deserves software.

  • workflow map
  • backlog
  • wireframes
  • architecture
  • estimate
  • decision memo
The plan is priced on its own. If you stop here, it is yours to take anywhere. Most clients don't: the person who wrote the estimate is the one accountable for hitting it.
02 Build staged · highest bleed first

From my own plan, at my own estimate. The focused core goes to production first, then stages your team can absorb.

03 Handover running · in your name

Deployed, monitored, documented. Code in your repository, every account and credential in your name.

BOREALIS decision memo · p.4

Field-service workflow: build vs buy

D1. Recommendation: do not build this.

An off-the-shelf field-service tool covers about 90% of this workflow for $79 a month. The remaining 10% does not justify a custom build at ten times the cost. Configure the tool, connect it to invoicing, and revisit in a year with real usage data.

synthetic example · real memos are redacted before sharing

the deliverable, on paper

The memo will tell you the truth, including "don't build"

Every engagement produces a decision memo: the reasoning behind every major tradeoff, written so you can challenge it. Some engagements end exactly like this page, with advice to spend less. The memo is the deliverable either way.

Ask how I'd run yours

Who you'll work with

One person, accountable

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Ever Barreto principal · Asunción, UTC-3

Me. That is the point. I'm Ever Barreto, the principal and the person who does the work: the scoping, the architecture, and most of the code. The person you talk to on the first call is the person who ships the system. When a project needs more hands, I bring in collaborators I have shipped with before, and I stay accountable for the result.

I work from Asunción, Paraguay, UTC-3. My working day overlaps almost completely with US Eastern time, and by four to five hours with the UK.

More about me and the track record →

Tell me what you're trying to build

Three or four sentences about your situation is enough. If it is a fit, my reply will include concrete observations, not a canned pitch.

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