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Selected work

Every project here shipped. Some clients are named, some prefer not to be, and both get the same treatment: the system drawn from its facts, with a screenshot where one is cleared for showing. Attribution follows written permission, never assumption, and the discretion protecting these clients is the discretion your project would get.

How to read these

What these have in common is not an industry. It is a size and a moment: an operation big enough that the spreadsheet and the shared inbox have started costing real money, and small enough that the owner is still the person who knows how everything works.

They are written to the same shape. The operation describes how the work really ran, because that is the part an estimate usually skips and the part that decides whether the rest is right. The part that was actually hard names the one thing the design had to get right, which is rarely the feature the project came in asking about. Where it stands says what is true now: when it was built, whether it is still running, and the public address where there is one.

The middle section is the one worth your time. It is where you find out whether the person who built the thing understood the business or only the software. One of these reads a satellite feed that kept changing underneath it and needed work for years afterwards. Another went live, ran a small company's scheduling and customer records, and was later stopped. Both are here in the same detail as the ones still running, because a portfolio that shows only the systems in perfect health is not describing the work. It is describing the good months.

If one of these operations sounds like yours, the filter below will find it faster than the dates will.