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New Orleans, LA · Custom Software + AI

Custom software for New Orleans — built the AI-native way.

We pair senior engineers with an AI-accelerated delivery model to ship custom software for New Orleans's energy, hospitality, and healthcare operators — without the fragile output that gives AI a bad name.

Senior-only engineering · AI-accelerated delivery · you own 100% of the code

AI changed the economics of custom software. We rebuilt our process around it.

New Orleans anchors a strong energy, hospitality, and healthcare market — home to Entergy, the Gulf Coast oil-and-gas ecosystem, Ochsner Health, a deep tourism and conventions economy, and growing B2B SaaS demand. Senior hires are six figures, months out, and picked over by regional employers, healthcare networks, and the venture-backed challengers around them. AI changes the math, but only when senior people own the parts AI gets wrong.

On a New Orleans energy, hospitality, or healthcare build, AI handles the repetitive 70% — schemas, scaffolding, CRUD, dashboards, glue. The 30% AI gets wrong is the part Gulf Coast operators, peak-day property teams, or your HIPAA reviewer will catch: late-arriving offshore sensor data, race conditions on a high-volume booking write, PHI access without audit logging, and integration with bespoke energy or PMS systems AI invents instead of reads. Raw AI output ships those silently.

We build for New Orleans operators — Gulf Coast field-ops apps for upstream and midstream teams, hospitality and tourism platforms scaling under peak-event load (Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest, conventions), provider-side healthcare tools across the Gulf South, B2B SaaS shipping into regional buyers, and modernization of decades-old enterprise stacks. Our model: AI handles scaffolding and the repetitive 70%; a senior engineer owns architecture, security review, and signs off on every change.

Show, don't tell

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.

delivery.tstypescript
const draft = await ai.generate(spec)          // minutes, not daysreview(draft, { security: true, tests: true, architecture: true })// ✗ rejected: late-arriving offshore sensor event overwrites newer state → event-sourced with version + replay test// ✓ merged: idempotent peak-day booking handler, audit-logged PHI access with reason capture
Every change
AI velocity + human judgment
tests + security review built in
you own 100% of the result

On a New Orleans energy, hospitality, or healthcare build, the failure modes are late offshore data, peak-load race conditions, and missing PHI audit trails. Senior review catches them before a control-room alarm, a Mardi Gras outage, or a HIPAA review does.

What we build for New Orleans companies.

Energy

Energy & operations software

Field-ops apps, sensor pipelines, and asset-management platforms for upstream, midstream, and renewables.

Hospitality

Hospitality & gaming software

Booking, loyalty, and operations platforms for hotels, restaurants, venues, and operators.

Healthcare

Healthcare & HIPAA-ready apps

Patient-facing portals, clinician tools, and care-coordination platforms built to HIPAA from day one.

Logistics

Supply-chain & ops platforms

Routing, dispatch, inventory, and visibility tools that replace clipboards and spreadsheets.

Product

SaaS platforms

Multi-tenant products with auth, billing, and dashboards — MVP to scale.

AI

AI applications

Copilots, RAG, search, and agents grounded in your data, with guardrails and evals.

Senior, on-shore, AI-accelerated

A senior team that moves at AI speed.

You work with senior engineers in Central Time who understand industrial data realities, regulated environments, and peak-load operations — fitting into a CBD energy-IT cadence, a French Quarter hospitality-tech standup, or a Metairie healthcare PR review — not a junior pool with raw AI output bolted on.

New Orleans's senior engineering pool is split between Gulf Coast energy, healthcare networks, hospitality operators, and a smaller venture-backed bench — three-to-six months to hire and quietly poached by remote coastal roles. An AI-native team gets you shipping this week, flexes monthly, and doesn't need a CBD office.

Talk to an engineer

Traditional New Orleans dev shop vs. AI-native.

Traditional AgencyDEV.co (AI-native)
Time to working softwareMonthsDays to weeks
CostFull senior rates, all hoursLower — AI removes the rote work
Code qualityGood (if senior)Same bar — every change reviewed
AI riskContained by senior review + tests
You own the codeUsuallyAlways — full repo on day one
Scales with youSlow to staff upFlex up or down monthly
2–3×
faster than traditional development
1 wk
to a working prototype
100%
code ownership at handoff
30 days
post-launch support included

Common questions from New Orleans teams.

Do you work with New Orleans companies?
Yes — we serve New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Houston companies with senior, on-shore engineers in Central Time. Most collaboration is remote-first, with on-site available for kickoffs and key milestones.
Do you work with industrial / SCADA and offshore field-ops teams?
Yes. We've built software that pulls from PLCs and SCADA-adjacent systems, plus offline-capable field apps for crews working offshore or out of cell range. We design for the realities of Gulf Coast industrial data — late-arriving, satellite-relayed, and regulated.
Can you build for peak-load hospitality, festival, and conventions operations?
Yes. We architect for idempotency, exactly-once intent, and replay-safe webhooks from day one — and we load-test for Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest, and major conventions, not the happy path. Reliability bugs on a property cost more than the build itself; we don't ship them.
Is AI-built software production-ready?
Yes — when a senior engineer reviews every output, adds tests, and hardens it. The horror stories come from shipping raw AI code unsupervised. We don't, and we support what we ship.
Will we own the code?
100%, from day one. We deliver to a repository you control — no proprietary platform, no lock-in.
How fast can we start?
Usually within days. A short scoping call defines the build, the timeline, and a fixed quote.
Can you work with our existing team?
Yes — we augment in-house teams, review their work, and set standards, or run the build end to end. We flex to how you work.

Let's build it — New Orleans.

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.