Hello from Washington.
This is the city right now, drawn in code: the real sky, today's weather and the planes overhead.
I build custom software for the work your off-the-shelf tools don't cover. I sit with the people who do the work, build the thing that fits it, and keep it running.
Each one started with a person and a problem: a spreadsheet nobody could keep up, a tool that didn't exist, a machine nothing could be installed on. Some are open to look at; some sit behind a sign-in or on someone's own computer.
An activated-sludge plant's lab readings lived in one spreadsheet per day. Now operators enter them once and the dashboard does the rest: SRT, sludge settling and blanket depths as they type, alarms when a basin drifts, tomorrow's wasting rates and pump timers, and every day since 2023 in trends. It runs on one laptop with no install, no admin rights and no network.
A demo on a made-up 164-slip marina in Annapolis, on real tides and weather, written for the people on the docks. The day comes as a list with one big button per job: see off, check in, call the captain, mark the haul-out done. The docks are drawn from above, with each boat in its slip; tap one to act on it. Bookings only offer slips the boat fits, and the owner's numbers read as a few plain sentences. Try it: book a boat in, it resets each night.
Run a marina, a boatyard or a rental fleet? This is a starting point: I'd connect it to your slips, billing and staff.
A full product for a fourteen-team football league: a live scoreboard dressed as a TV broadcast, standings, tiebreakers and playoff odds, weekly power rankings, trades, a league chat and push notifications on an installable phone app. The league's host stays the source of truth; everything else is built on top, tested, monitored and documented.
Document management for law firms and small businesses: full-text search across PDFs, Word files and scanned images, with separate workspaces, roles and billing.
Project managers' weekly updates, the slides that come out of them and a portfolio board, in one tool built for a locked-down machine: nothing to install, nothing leaves the computer.
A weather app for people who like weather: radar, severe-weather outlooks, the night sky you can point your phone at, and the live planes overhead.
One person, start to finish: the first conversation, the build, and keeping it running.
Internal tools, customer-facing apps, and the small exact tool that replaces a spreadsheet. Built to run where your people are, including machines where nothing can be installed.
I've taken an enterprise rollout that had failed twice to a working launch, and stood up new platforms inside a federal agency. I re-plan it, then fix or build what's needed myself.
Finding the uses worth doing, setting the rules to run them safely, building them into the tools your team already uses, and checking afterwards that they paid off.
The fastest way to find out what a tool should be is to put one in front of the people who'll use it.
I start with the people doing it: what they do every day, where it breaks, what they've given up asking for.
A working first version on real data, not a slide. We change it together until it fits.
Every tool ships with its manual: how to use it, how it works, how to recover it.
Monitoring, updates and small changes as the work changes, by the person who built it.
For ten years I've worked where operations, policy and software meet: leading programs and platform rollouts inside a federal agency, managing products built from scratch at a software studio, and running the day-to-day operations of a venture firm, its accelerator and a startup it founded.
These days I build. I write the software myself, in Python and JavaScript, and I use AI tools every day to build faster and check my work more carefully. Jackson, Morin & Co. is my practice.
It's Washington from the Arlington heights, drawn in code. The sun, the moon, the stars and the planets are where they really are right now. The weather is today's. The planes are real flights around National Airport, each drawn where it is in the sky (tap one for its flight), and Nationals Park lights up on home-game nights.
Every building carries the year it went up, so the city can grow from 1791 to today.
Try it:
Live data: weather from the National Weather Service (National Airport's observations) · aircraft positions from adsb.fi and adsb.lol (ODbL) · buildings from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) · stars from the Hipparcos catalogue via d3-celestial.
A tool you wish existed, a spreadsheet that runs your week, a rollout that's stuck. Come with the situation and I'll tell you honestly what the first step looks like. The first conversation is free.
info [at] jacksonmorinco.com