Custom software for businesses that
outgrew their tools.
I build and maintain the web applications businesses run on - when spreadsheets, off-the-shelf SaaS, and stalled projects stop keeping up. Twenty-five years of engineering, delivered with a team of AI agents.
Your business outgrew
the software running it.
If one of these is your day, off-the-shelf tools have stopped fitting - and it's costing you real hours.
Spreadsheets are the system
Critical parts of the business run on Excel, copy-paste, and a few SaaS tools taped together. It works until it doesn't - and every new hire is another person to train on the workaround.
Manual work eats the week
Staff spend hours moving data between apps, re-keying orders, and chasing status by hand - time that should go to customers, lost to a process software could just do.
Off-the-shelf nearly fits
The tool does 80% of what you need and forces painful workarounds for the last 20%. You're bending your business to the software instead of the other way around.
A build stalled out
A previous developer started something and it never shipped - or shipped and got stuck. You need someone to pick it up, tell you what's salvageable, and get it moving again.
Real systems, real outcomes.
In a referral business, the work is the pitch. Each of these is a system I designed, built, and shipped - with the problem it solved and the numbers behind it.
A single-tenant internal tool that had hit a wall, rebuilt as a multi-tenant SaaS platform with self-serve onboarding, every legacy record migrated, live in under four months.
A West Texas safety company's aging Laravel 6 app moved to a fully modern stack across ten gated phases, without a rewrite, without a data migration, and without a single schema change.
A two-sided platform serving business owners and community members at once - free job board, geolocation directory, and tiered services - from concept to live in four weeks.
An ongoing development partner,
not a one-off build.
I work as your development team on a monthly retainer - discovery and prioritization, build cycles, and deploys, with a direct line to me and no account managers in between. Software keeps changing after launch; so does the work.
Can one person carry
my software?
Fair question - it's the first one most people ask. Here's the honest answer.
I'm one operator with twenty-five years of building software, working with a team of ten specialized AI agents I've built and trained. The agents handle the repetitive work - scaffolding, tests, boilerplate, first drafts. I make the architecture, security, and product decisions that actually carry risk. That's how a single partner delivers and maintains real production systems on a retainer.
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I also run a separate marketing line - websites, SEO, Google Business Profile, and content - for getting a business discovered on Google and AI search.
One engineer,
directly on your project.
Travis Sutphin - Founder & Principal Engineer, AIwhirks AIwhirks is me - Travis. When a referral reaches me, it reaches me, not a queue. I've spent twenty-five years building software, from before AI existed to running a studio built around it, and I work directly on every engagement.
For the full background - including fractional CTO work - see travissutphin.com.
Questions before
you reach out
Tell me what you're building
A sentence or two on what you're working with and where it's stuck. If it's a fit, we'll book a scoping call - no obligation, and I reply personally.
Your details stay private. No spam, no selling your data. Ever.