About
Operava LLC builds software for businesses that generic products stopped fitting.
Most companies do not need custom software. The ones that do have usually reached a specific point: the operation has become specific enough that off-the-shelf tools cost more in workarounds than they save in licence fees.
What we're good at
Four things, done properly.
Home-service domain experience
Crews, recurring work, routes, estimating rules, dispatch, the office in the middle of all of it. We are not learning how service businesses run while you pay for it.
Production SaaS development
Systems that run every day, with real users, real money moving through them, and real consequences when something breaks at 6am on a Monday.
API and integration-heavy systems
Payments, communications, accounting, third-party platforms. Webhooks, retries, idempotency and reconciliation — the parts where integrations quietly fail.
Business-first product thinking
The question is never what is technically interesting. It is which part of your operation is costing you money, and whether software is the right answer.
Background
Where the domain knowledge comes from.
Before writing software for this industry, Alex ran a lawn care business. The scheduling, the estimating, the invoice that never went out, the crew that showed up to the wrong address — that is where the interest in this problem started.
We have built and shipped platform software for this industry before — scheduling, estimating, invoicing, payments, payroll, customer portals and AI phone answering, all of it running in production. That work is where the engineering experience comes from.
None of it is what we are selling you. Custom software is. It is simply the reason we can walk into a discovery call already understanding what a recurring maintenance schedule does when a crew goes down, or why your estimator keeps rebuilding quotes in a spreadsheet.
Practically: it means less of your budget goes to us learning your industry.
How we operate
Small, direct, accountable.
You talk to the people building your system. There is no account manager relaying requirements to a team you never meet, and no offshore handoff after the contract is signed.
We take on a small number of projects at a time, which is why we are direct about fit. If your operation does not warrant custom software yet, saying so on the first call costs us a deal and saves you $6,000 and three months.
When a project does make sense, the commitment is straightforward: a written scope, a fixed price, milestones you can see, and support after launch from the same people who built it.
- Company
- Operava LLC
- Focus
- Custom operating software
- Projects from
- $6,000
The fastest way to find out if this is worth it.
One call. We ask how your company runs, you find out whether custom software is the right answer, and nobody has spent anything.
Custom builds start at $6,000. No obligation on the call.