An engineer, not a consultant
One painful workflow, automated in about a week.
I'm Matt Gardner, an engineer in the Washington DC area. Tell me the job that's manual, repetitive, and keeps getting dropped — I build the thing that handles it. Fixed price, usually $500 to $1,500.
Hi Dana — it's Sarah at the agency. Your policy renews March 14. Want me to check new rates before it does?
Just circling back on your March 14 renewal — happy to run the numbers either way.
Yes please, that'd be great.
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Fifteen years shipping software — from a Beyoncé tour to your back office.
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Case Study · Insurance Agency
Built in one week
Four thousand clients. Not one follow-up missed.
Agents were calling by hand and people were slipping through. Now every client hears from the agency on schedule, by text — and the moment someone replies, it stops and hands them to the right agent.
Before → after
How the system works
Full case study
Read the full Boudreau Insurance case study
The challenge, the system, and the results — start to finish.
Social proof
Don't take my word for it.
Real texts, emails, and reviews from people I've built for.
See all testimonials →Four thousand clients, and not one follow-up missed.
A text-message system built in one week — it reaches the whole book on schedule, then stops and hands the client to the right agent the moment they reply.
Read the full case study →Bringing AI into an enterprise M&A platform.
Devensoft builds M&A software for enterprise deal teams — and they were a team I used to build software for. Now I'm working with them on where AI fits in the platform.
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Read the article →“One of the few developers who is incredibly skilled technically while also having a strong product and design sense — a real swiss army knife. I'd absolutely jump at the opportunity to work with him again!”
— Danny Roosevelt · Product at Pipedream
Worked with Matt at BrightRoll & Yahoo
“Matt is an invaluable asset any company would be lucky to have! We've worked on numerous projects together and it has been nothing less than stellar.”
“You've been a great asset to our team. You're incredibly talented in a number of ways, and really are great at what you do.”
Selected Work
Things I build, over and over, for small businesses.
- Customer follow-ups
- Lead in Text + follow-up Stop on reply
No lead gets forgotten. Stops the second someone replies.
- Appointment scheduling
- Your calendar Customer picks slot Booked
They pick a time from your real calendar. No more phone tag.
- Summaries of calls, emails, meetings
- Long thread Key points Your inbox
The one sentence that matters lands in your inbox.
- Data moving between tools
- System A Auto-sync System B
An order in one system becomes a row in another. The copy-paste goes away.
- Something you have in mind
- If you already know the task eating your week, that's the one. Describe it on a call and I'll tell you if I can build it.
Built on tools you already trust — nothing exotic to maintain.
Browse by problem
Pain-shaped questions, with answers.
Recognize your week in one of these? Each page goes deep.
Insurance agencies
Reach the whole book before renewals lapse.
Weeks to move your book, not months.
Read more →Accounting and bookkeeping firms
Stop chasing W-2s every January.
The chasing your staff does by hand, handled.
Read more →Owner-operators
200 emails a day. 10 actually need you.
Three buckets, so the morning stops eating itself.
Read more →Home services and trades
The job's done at 4. The write-up's done at 7.
Voice memo in. Invoice, email, and CRM record out.
Read more →Home services, dental, auto repair
Your happy customers never say so publicly.
Ask the right customer, at the right moment.
Read more →Law, financial, event vendors
The first call is the same twelve questions.
A case summary instead of a cold first call.
Read more →How it works
Three steps. No surprises in the middle.
A 15-minute call
You describe the task. I ask a few questions. If I can't help, I'll say so on that call and often point you somewhere that can.
I build it
One week, typically. Fixed price, quoted before we start. You get a video walkthrough, the code, and the config. It's yours.
It runs
A week of email support after delivery. Most people keep me on after that to handle the technical stuff as it comes up — but that's your call, never a contract. The code is yours either way.
What it looks like running
Hi Dana — it's Sarah at the agency. Your policy renews March 14. Want me to check new rates before it does?
Just circling back on your March 14 renewal — happy to run the numbers either way.
Yes please, that'd be great.
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You receive the working system, a video walkthrough, the code, and the config — all in your accounts, yours to keep.
Pricing
Fixed prices. Quoted before we start.
If yours is a different shape, we'll find a number on the call — before you commit to anything.
Starter
$500
Flat, one workflow
- One painful workflow, automated
- 5–7 days from call to delivery
- Video walkthrough + documentation
- One week of email support
- You own the code and config
Standard · Most popular
$1,500
Flat, multi-step
- Multi-step workflow or integrations
- ~2 weeks from call to delivery
- Video walkthrough + documentation
- Two weeks of email support
- You own the code and config
Custom
Quote
Priced on the call
- Anything bigger than two weeks
- Multiple systems, unusual constraints
- Still fixed price, quoted up front
- Or a monthly retainer if it fits better
- Still yours at the end
What "fixed price" means here: I quote it before you commit. If the work turns out to take longer than I thought, that's my problem, not yours — I keep going until the thing does what I scoped.
Ready?
Tell me what's slowing you down.
Start with a free workflow review: tell me where your team loses time and I'll tell you whether it's worth automating. If it is, I'll send a private link to book a call.