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We pair senior engineers with an AI-accelerated delivery model to ship custom software for Houston's energy, healthcare, and industrial operators — without the fragile output that gives AI a bad name.
AI changed the economics of custom software. We rebuilt our process around it.
Houston is the country's largest energy and industrial-tech market — anchored by upstream and midstream operators, oilfield services, the Texas Medical Center, and a fast-growing renewables and logistics scene. Senior hires are six figures, months out, and picked over by majors, mid-cap operators, and the contractors that service them. AI changes the math, but only when senior people own the parts AI gets wrong.
On a Houston energy or industrial build, AI handles the repetitive 70% — schemas, dashboards, scaffolding, glue. The 30% that bites you in production is everything an industrial environment demands and a SaaS-trained AI doesn't know: late-arriving sensor data corrupting state, offline-capable field apps that have to reconcile when they reconnect, PLC and SCADA tag conventions, and the brutal reality that 'eventually consistent' means 'wrong when a crew is at a wellhead.' Raw AI output assumes the cloud is always there.
We build for Houston operators — field-ops apps for upstream and midstream teams, sensor and SCADA pipelines, hospital-system tools across the TMC, logistics and ports platforms, and modernization of decades-old industrial systems. Our model: AI handles scaffolding and the repetitive 70%; a senior engineer owns architecture, security review, and signs off on every change.
AI writes the first draft. A senior engineer signs off.
Every change runs through review for security, tests, and architecture before it ships — that review is the product.
const draft = await ai.generate(spec) // minutes, not daysreview(draft, { security: true, tests: true, architecture: true })// ✗ rejected: late-arriving sensor event overwrites newer state → event-sourced with version + replay test// ✓ merged: offline-first field-app sync with conflict resolution, audit trail on every state transitionOn a Houston energy or industrial build, the failure modes are late-arriving data, offline sync conflicts, and silent state corruption. Senior review catches them before a missed valve change or a control-room alarm does.
What we build for Houston companies.
Energy & operations software
Field-ops apps, sensor pipelines, and asset-management platforms for upstream, midstream, and renewables.
Healthcare & HIPAA-ready apps
Patient-facing portals, clinician tools, and care-coordination platforms built to HIPAA from day one.
Supply-chain & ops platforms
Routing, dispatch, inventory, and visibility tools that replace clipboards and spreadsheets.
Modernization
Move legacy systems onto a modern, maintainable stack — incrementally, no big-bang.
SaaS platforms
Multi-tenant products with auth, billing, and dashboards — MVP to scale.
AI applications
Copilots, RAG, search, and agents grounded in your data, with guardrails and evals.
A senior team that moves at AI speed.
You work with senior engineers in Central Time who understand industrial data — late, noisy, regulated — and own architecture, integration, and quality. Not a junior pool dropping raw AI output on top of your SCADA pipeline.
Houston's senior engineers are split across energy majors, the Med Center, and an active contracting market — six-figure salaries and project cycles tied to capex budgets. An AI-native team gets you shipping inside a week, scales with your project, and doesn't need an office in the Energy Corridor.
Talk to an engineerTraditional Houston dev shop vs. AI-native.
| Traditional Agency | DEV.co (AI-native) | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to working software | Months | Days to weeks |
| Cost | Full senior rates, all hours | Lower — AI removes the rote work |
| Code quality | Good (if senior) | Same bar — every change reviewed |
| AI risk | — | Contained by senior review + tests |
| You own the code | Usually | Always — full repo on day one |
| Scales with you | Slow to staff up | Flex up or down monthly |
Common questions from Houston teams.
Do you work with Houston companies?
Do you work with industrial / SCADA and field-ops teams?
Can you build offline-first for field crews?
Is AI-built software production-ready?
Will we own the code?
How fast can we start?
Can you work with our existing team?
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Let's build it — Houston.
Tell us what you're shipping. We'll give you a senior engineer's read, an honest timeline, a fixed quote, and tell you whether AI-native is the right fit for your build.