Custom software and web development for Sacramento companies
Sacramento runs on organizations with real operational complexity: healthcare systems, agriculture and food companies, construction and engineering firms, and the many businesses that work with state government. Their problems are rarely "we need a new homepage." They are "our systems do not talk to each other" and "this process lives in a spreadsheet that one person understands."
- Sacramento County
- About 1 hour 30 minutes from our Chico studio
Where we help
Many firms that rank for software development in Sacramento have a local address and a team somewhere else. Rune is different in one specific way: the senior engineer you talk to is the one who writes your code. Erik Mellum has spent more than a decade building production software, including as a founding engineer on an enterprise product at Zoom and at Y Combinator-backed Quartzy, and has delivered complete systems solo, from database to finished product. No offshore bench, no account managers, and in-person working sessions when a project benefits from them.
Also serving West Sacramento, Elk Grove, Folsom, Rancho Cordova, Davis.
Internal tools that replace spreadsheets
Scheduling, quoting, inventory, compliance tracking. Purpose-built tools that match how your team already works, with the permissions and audit trail a spreadsheet cannot give you.
Integrations between the systems you already pay for
CRM, ERP, accounting, field service, and payment platforms that do not talk to each other cost hours of re-keying every week. We connect them with reliable APIs and background jobs.
Customer and partner portals
Give clients a place to see project status, documents, invoices, and reports without emailing your staff. Secure logins, roles, and a clean interface.
Modernizing an aging application
An old internal app that only runs on one server, or a website nobody dares touch. We plan an incremental rebuild that keeps the business running while it happens.
From one integration to a whole platform
You work directly with the engineer who designs and builds the system.
Product development
Full 0-to-1 product builds, the kind of work Erik has done as a founding engineer. From a raw idea to a real, shipped product people use.
Discovery & scoping
Not sure exactly what to build yet? We map the what and the how first, so you spend your budget on the right thing instead of guessing.
Custom software & internal tools
Software tailored to exactly how you work, the things off-the-shelf tools just cannot do.
APIs & integrations
Connect your systems and make your tools talk to each other, with data flowing where it needs to go.
Dashboards & admin tools
See your whole operation at a glance and run it without a mess of spreadsheets and duct tape.
Automation & AI
Kill the repetitive work. Automations and AI that handle the busywork so your team does not have to.
Systems we have shipped
Live projects, with the story of how each one was built.
SP3-SiteHazards
A seismic hazard platform for Haselton Baker Risk Group: address in, engineered PDF report out. Whole system solo - data model, API, auth, CLI, PostGIS - estimated at 250 hours and delivered on time.
Homeschool.fit
A full SaaS platform for homeschool families: curriculum planning, scheduling, progress tracking, and community. On the web and in both app stores.
Questions from Sacramento
Do you work with mid-size companies, or only small businesses?
Both. Our local web design serves small businesses, and our custom software work is built for growing and mid-size companies with real systems, real users, and requirements around security and reliability.
How do engagements usually start?
Most start with a short, paid discovery phase: we learn the problem, look at your existing systems, and come back with a written scope, architecture, and a fixed quote. You can take that plan anywhere, but most clients have us build it.
Can you work alongside our in-house IT or development team?
Yes. We can own a project end to end, or work inside your repositories and processes alongside your team, with code, documentation, and handoff that your people can maintain.
Who owns the code?
You do, from day one. The code lives in a repository your company controls, not ours, along with the documentation. If we part ways, nothing has to be handed back.
How will we know how the project is going?
A working demo and a short written status every week. You see real progress on real software, not a percentage on a slide.
Building something in Sacramento?
Tell us what you are trying to solve. You will hear back from the engineer who would build it, with honest thoughts on scope.