What DattaDock does, and why it costs less
Most small businesses have one process that eats the week. A form that arrives by email and gets retyped into a spreadsheet. A report someone assembles by hand every time. A folder of photos that has to be sorted before anything can happen. The work is real, the software to carry it exists nowhere, and the off the shelf products all want a monthly fee for ninety percent of a fit.
Custom software has always been the answer to that, and it has always been priced out of reach. A development agency staffs a project with an account manager, a project manager, a designer, one or two developers and a testing pass, then puts margin on all five. Most of that cost is not the building. It is the coordination: the standups, the handoffs, the tickets, and explaining your business again to whoever joined the team last month.
DattaDock is one person working with agentic AI tools. The agents do the production work: first drafts of code, tests, documentation and the tedious repetitive changes that used to fill an afternoon. The person sets the direction, reviews every line that comes back, and is accountable for all of it. Nothing ships unreviewed.
One person means one rate, no coordination overhead and no margin stacked on five roles. The agents remove most of what is left, which is time. Together that puts a real custom system inside the budget of a business that an agency would quote out of the conversation, and it is the whole reason DattaDock can take work at this size at all.
What that means for you
- Weeks, not quarters
- The appraisal system on the work page went from first working file to live in nine days. Yours gets a date in writing with the quote.
- A price a small business can approve
- Sized for small and mid sized businesses. If a project is too large for one person to build well and support afterwards, you will be told that rather than sold it.
- A fixed quote, agreed first
- One number against a written scope, before any work starts. It moves only if you add to the list.
- Every change reviewed by a person
- AI writes the first draft. A person reads it before it ships, and is accountable for it. That line does not move.
- No monthly fee to us
- No retainer, no subscription, no per seat licence. Your running costs go directly to the companies that provide them.
- You own it
- The code, the data, the domain and the accounts are yours, on services billed to you.
What we build
Six shapes cover almost everything we are asked for. Most projects are two or three of them joined together.
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Intake and quoting
The form that starts the job, and the thing that happens next.
A request comes in, the system acknowledges it immediately, opens the file, works out what documents are needed for that kind of job, and tells you. Nothing sits in an inbox waiting to be noticed.
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Client portals
One address where your customer can see where their job stands.
Uploads, documents outstanding, messages, and the finished product when it is ready. Sign in by a link sent to their email, so there is one less password for them to lose and for you to reset.
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Reports and documents
The deliverable your business actually sells, generated instead of assembled.
Pull the figures from the record, apply the method, and produce the finished document with its reasoning printed. The report cannot quietly disagree with the numbers behind it, because the system will not let it.
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Internal tools and dashboards
The spreadsheet that has outgrown being a spreadsheet.
Scheduling boards, trackers, pipelines and consoles. One screen that answers what is happening today, built around your language rather than a vendor's.
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Text and email that fires itself
The follow up that happens whether or not anyone remembers.
Confirmations, reminders, alerts to you when something new lands, and nudges before a promise to a customer breaks. Text messaging is set up properly, including the carrier registration the phone networks now require of every business number.
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Payments and invoicing
Getting paid without chasing it by hand.
Hosted invoices with card and bank transfer through Stripe, and the payment itself opening the next step automatically. Card details go to Stripe directly. They never touch your system or ours.
How a project runs
Five steps, and you know the price before step three.
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1
A conversation
Tell us what happens today and what it costs you. Half an hour is usually enough. If software is not the answer, you get told that, and it costs nothing.
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A written scope and a fixed quote
What will be built, in plain sentences, with a single price against it. You approve it before anything is written. The price does not move unless you ask for something that was not on the list.
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The build
You get a working address to look at while it is being built, not a status meeting. Change your mind early and it costs nothing to change course.
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Handover
It goes live on your domain, with your accounts, your keys and your data. You get the password, the documentation and the ability to walk away with it.
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Thirty days of support, included
Anything that breaks or does not look right gets fixed at no charge for the first thirty days. After that, new work is quoted the same way as the first.
Recent client work
Auto Appraisal Network OKC
autoappraisalsoklahoma.comWiley Conley appraises classic cars, customs, muscle and whole collections across central Oklahoma. The valuations were sound. Everything around them, the intake, the photo sorting, the comparable sales research and the report itself, was manual.
Nine days from the first working file to a live system, and it now carries the business end to end: the request form, the client's own upload page, an engine that gathers comparable sales and refuses to count the same listing twice, three types of finished report, text and email alerts, and invoicing with card and bank transfer.
Four more tools run an Oklahoma AmeriCorps program through its 2026 to 2027 year, from host site readiness through to member onboarding, and a day camp builds its weekly staffing on another. The work page has all of it.
- Built
- August 2026, live on the client's own domain
- Report types
- Total loss, diminished value, fair market value
- Ongoing fee to DattaDock
- None
And four products of our own
Client work is not the only proof. DattaDock designs, writes, hosts and supports four products of its own, live and open to the public. They are how the methods above get tested at our expense rather than yours.
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One search covers up to eight specialist retailers at once and returns part number, price and stock side by side. Accounts, Google sign-in and Stripe billing. The one product with AI inside it.
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Produces an agreement both parties sign, sets a payment schedule with reminders and records payments against it. It moves no money.
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Live listings from the Adzuna data feed, pay shown where the source provides it, and guides to twenty trades. No account required.
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Tracks who paid what, computes who owes whom, and works out the fewest payments that settle the balance.
What comes with every build
- A fixed price, agreed first
- You approve a written scope with one number against it before any work starts. It does not move unless you add to the list.
- You own it
- The code, the domain, the data and the accounts are yours. Nothing is licensed to you and nothing is held hostage.
- No monthly fee to us
- There is no retainer and no subscription. Your running costs go directly to the companies that provide them, usually a few dollars a month.
- Thirty days of support
- Included at no charge from the day it goes live. Anything broken gets fixed.
- You talk to the person who writes it
- No account manager, no ticket queue, no handoff between a team that built it and a team that maintains it.
Tell us what is slowing you down
Describe the process that eats your week. You will get a straight answer on whether software can carry it, what it would take, and what it would cost. If the answer is that you do not need us, you will get that too.