Custom software, priced to the outcome.
A small senior team with coding agents doing the heavy lifting. Every engagement is scoped to a single deliverable at a fixed price. No hourly meters. No prototype-shaped final product.
Mid-market healthcare, insurance, professional services, sports & wellness, and NE Ohio manufacturing · 15+ years backend & cloud · Cleveland, Ohio
What we build
Web and API applications built to run in production from day one — authentication, subscription billing, third-party integrations, and the infrastructure underneath. Small team, senior engineers, coding agents on deck.
Custom Application Development
The core of what we do. Web and API applications for mid-market teams, built by a small senior team with coding agents doing the heavy lifting. Scoped and priced against a defined outcome.
AI Strategy
A one-week engagement that tells you where AI actually fits in your business — so the software we build you is scoped against a real plan.
AI Agents
Intelligent agents trained on your data, usually embedded inside a custom application we are already building or extending.
Fractional Leadership
CTO or Director of Engineering coverage when you need executive technical leadership but cannot justify a full-time hire yet.
DevOps & Cloud
Ship the application to production on AWS, Azure, or GCP with CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure-as-code in place from day one.
Project Management
Technical PM coverage for complex builds — keeps scope, stakeholders, and delivery honest against the fixed-price proposal.
Machine Learning & Data Analytics
ML models, BI, and data pipelines — typically delivered as part of an application build, not as a standalone science project.
Software Testing
Test automation and QA strategy applied to the applications we build, so quality stays in the codebase after we hand off.
Athletic Nutrition Platform
A platform for endurance athletes, coaches, teams, and the businesses around them. Subscription billing that handles real-world edge cases, polymorphic coaching ownership, and fueling plans that adjust to live weather on race day.
- Shipped production-grade from day one — not a prototype to be rewritten later
- Stripe billing with grace periods and entitlement enforcement
- Real-time weather integrated into fueling plan generation
How engagements work
Three steps, no guessing what comes next.
Discovery call
A free 30-minute conversation about your business, the outcome you need, and the constraints you are working inside of.
Fixed-price proposal
A written proposal with a defined scope, defined outcome, and a fixed price. You decide whether to move forward before anyone commits budget.
We ship
A small team of senior engineers plus coding agents builds and delivers the outcome. You see progress in production, not in status slides.
Why Balderson
Priced to the outcome
Every engagement is priced against a defined deliverable, not an hourly rate. You know what you're paying for — and what you're getting — before any work starts.
Agents on the team
Coding agents are part of how we plan, write, and review work — not a novelty layered on top. A small senior team plus agents ships at a size the work used to take many more people to deliver.
Senior engineers, not a staffed bench
15+ years of backend and cloud under real load — the APIs, infrastructure, and scaling problems that show up when software actually gets used. No junior pipeline to work through before you get to a decision.
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