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Background Paths

Custom software
that stops the
$10K/mo you lose
to manual work.

We build operational systems for growing businesses, eliminating the inefficiency that's capping your growth.

80+ hours

of manual work eliminated monthly across our client base

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3x quoting output
Noble Fire and Safety Logo
Zero missed inspections
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6 spreadsheets → 1 dashboard
Meridian Shield Logo
3x quoting output
Noble Fire and Safety Logo
Zero missed inspections
CureCore Logo
6 spreadsheets → 1 dashboard

Trusted by operators doing $1M–$10M

The Problem

The Operational Debt Behind Your Revenue Ceiling

Your quoting process lives in someone's head. When they're out sick, everything stops.

Most operators lose 5–10 hours a week to knowledge that isn’t documented anywhere.

You've tried off-the-shelf software. It almost works — but you always end up back in a spreadsheet filling the gaps.

The average team wastes 15+ hours a month bridging gaps between tools that don’t talk to each other.

You know there's a better way to run your operation, but you don't have a technical person who understands your business well enough to build it.

Hiring a full-time developer costs $120K+/year — and they still won’t understand your operation on day one.

Every month you wait, your competitors get a little faster. A little more automated. A little harder to catch.

Companies that automate operations grow 2–3x faster than those still running on manual processes.

Every month you wait, these problems compound. The average mid-market business loses $8,000–$15,000/month to operational inefficiency they can't see.

Our Process

Four steps to a system that runs your business.

Discover phase — We learn your business before we write a line of code.Map phase — We turn your operation into a blueprint.Build phase — We build your system — not someone else's.Operate phase — We don't disappear after launch.
Step 01

Discover

We learn your business before we write a line of code.

1–2 weeks

We start with a deep operational discovery — not a requirements doc. We sit down with you and your team to understand how your business actually runs. The workarounds, the bottlenecks, the things that 'just work' because someone remembers to do them. This is the step most agencies skip. It's the most important one.

What you get

Operational audit document — a plain-English breakdown of how your business runs today and where the biggest opportunities are.

Start with Discovery

Free 30-min call · No obligation

Step 02

Map

We turn your operation into a blueprint.

1–2 weeks

We take everything we learned and map it into a clear system design — your workflows, your data, your decision points. You'll see exactly what we're going to build before we build it. No surprises. No scope creep. Just a plan that makes sense to you, not just to a developer.

What you get

System blueprint + interactive wireframes — you sign off on exactly what gets built.

Step 03

Build

We build your system — not someone else's.

4–8 weeks

Custom software designed around your terminology, your logic, and your workflows. Not an off-the-shelf tool you have to bend your process around. Where it makes sense, we wire in AI and automation that handles the repetitive thinking — generating quotes, flagging missed follow-ups, catching problems before they cost you money.

What you get

Production-ready custom application — deployed, tested, and ready for your team to use.

Step 04

Operate

We don't disappear after launch.

Ongoing

We manage, monitor, and continuously improve your system. It gets smarter over time because we're actively making it smarter. Bug fixes, feature requests, performance tuning — we're your technical team on retainer, not a vendor who handed you a login and vanished.

What you get

Ongoing retainer partnership — your system keeps getting better as your business grows.

Let's Map Your Operation

Free 30-min call · No obligation

Case Studies

Real systems. Real results.

Every project started with the same 30-minute call and ended with measurable outcomes.

curecore.app
CureCore dashboard
CC
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

CureCore

10–20 hrsSaved per month on reporting
6→1Spreadsheets replaced by one dashboard
Real-timeP&L visibility by product line

I used to spend the last week of every month reconciling spreadsheets. Now I just open the dashboard.

Founder, CureCore

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The Cost of Waiting

The Market Isn't Waiting
for You to Catch Up

Every month your team spends on manual processes is a month your competitors spend getting faster. Here's what our clients experience when they stop waiting.

6–10

weeks from kickoff to production — across every client engagement

Column & Code avg.

0+

hours of manual work eliminated monthly across our client base

Client data

<90

days to full ROI — most clients recoup their investment in the first quarter

Client data

The question isn't whether you'll need these systems. It's whether you'll have them before your competition does.

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What Is Operational Inefficiency Costing You?

Plug in your numbers. See what you're leaving on the table.

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$15$150
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Annual cost of inefficiency

$0

20 hrs × $45/hr × 3 people × 52 weeks

Projected annual savings

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Joey

Founder, Column & Code

About Us

Not an agency. Not a contractor.
Your technical co-founder.

Column and Code exists because I couldn't find the systems my own businesses needed. So I built them. CureCore — our pharmaceutical-grade manufacturing operation — runs on software I designed from scratch because nothing on the market could handle what we needed.

That's the difference. I don't just build technology — I run businesses on it. Every system I build for a client is informed by that reality. If it wouldn't survive my own operations, it's not ready for yours.

The companies that build operational systems now will define their markets for the next decade.

Will yours be one of them?