About
Operava LLC exists because good software still leaves people doing the work by hand.
Generic products handle about 80% of an established operation. Employees handle the other 20% — retyping, chasing, reconciling, remembering. That gap is what we build for, and most companies do not need us until it gets expensive.
What we're good at
Four things, done properly.
Service-operation domain experience
Crews and techs in the field, recurring and project work, estimating rules, dispatch, the office in the middle of all of it. We are not learning how this kind of business runs 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 this comes from, and what it does not include.
Alex ran a home-service business before building software for one. 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, and none of it turned out to be specific to that industry.
We have not run an electrical contracting business or a concrete company, and we are not going to pretend the trades are interchangeable. What is consistent is the failure: work happens away from the office, several systems each hold part of the truth, and people close the gap manually. That pattern is the same in a mechanical contractor, a roofing company and a landscaping operation.
On the engineering side, we have built and shipped operating software before — scheduling, estimating, invoicing, payments, payroll, customer portals and AI phone answering, all of it running in production. None of it is what we are selling you. Custom software is. It is simply why we can come into a first call already understanding what a recurring schedule does when a crew goes down, or why your estimator keeps rebuilding quotes in a spreadsheet.
Practically: less of your budget goes to us learning how operations like yours work.
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 software & automation
- Projects from
- $6,000
The fastest way to find out if this is worth it.
One call. You describe a workflow that is costing you time, we tell you whether software is the right answer, and nobody has spent anything.
Thirty minutes, no obligation. Custom builds start at $6,000.