A house of software, built from inside a government contract.
A services firm and a software house, under one roof. Founder-owned. Bootstrapped. We delivered against SAM.gov before we ever wrote software for it · and the products we ship now are designed for that work, not bets from a deck.
One masthead, two operations.
A working note, between two SAM.gov deadlines.
New York, NY · MMXXVI
We started with the contract, not the code.
In 2021 I started IT Custom Solution as a services firm · cybersecurity, cloud, managed IT, staffing · for federal, state, and local agencies. We won the work the way every small firm wins it: by being inside the room, reading the solicitation more carefully than the next vendor, and showing up the day after the contract was signed.
Since 2021, our work has stayed close to the documents, systems, and people that make public-sector delivery possible. Somewhere along the way it became obvious that the software the contracting economy was using to win, onboard, support, and deliver · wasn't built by people who'd ever done any of those things.
So we built it ourselves. Winrove for the proposal team. OpsTicket so an SLA actually maps to a CLIN. We built the products around the proposal and service work we understand firsthand. We are still founder-owned. Still bootstrapped. Still small. The services arm and the software house run from the same calendar, the same playbook, and the same inbox.
The whole point of this place, in one line: a seat for the builders procurement forgot.
If you're an agency, a prime, or a sub trying to make the contract work · write to me. I read every note.