Internal tools
The software that decides whether a week takes four hours or forty.
Usually document-heavy. Usually replacing a spreadsheet and a lot of re-keying. Built so a human stays in the loop where the judgment call lives.
In practiceDeerman Sales
Purchase orders arrive as PDFs, get parsed into line items, matched against manufacturer price files, and go back out as vendor confirmations.
Case studies
Long-form writeups of how the work actually went.
Selected work
Field notes
- Just use AI to parse the PDF is where the work beginsAn AI parser turns a vendor purchase order into structured line items in an afternoon. Everything after that afternoon is the actual project.
- Every fix ships with the test that would have caught itA bug report is a gift: it's a real-world input that broke your assumptions. Throwing that away after the fix is the actual waste.
- The five questions we ask before we quote anythingMost bad software projects were mispriced before a line of code existed. These are the questions that surface that in the first conversation instead of the ninth.