The plain-English version
No jargon on this page. It explains what is changing in the computer world, why it matters to your wallet, and what we are doing about it.
Something big just happened
In the last few years, computers learned to do a large share of the work that used to take teams of expensive specialists. Writing software, organizing information, building websites, wiring up reports: jobs that took months now take days, and jobs that took days take hours.
That is not a prediction about the future. It is how the work is already being done, including the page you are reading right now.
So prices should be falling
When the time a job takes collapses, the price of that job should fall with it. That is how it works for everything else. If a machine dug a foundation in a day that used to take a crew a month, nobody would expect to keep paying the crew-for-a-month price.
Technology work is at that moment right now. And yet most quotes have not budged, and plenty have gone up. A lot of the industry would prefer you never do this math.
We built this project to do the math in public. Our prices are posted where anyone can read them, and when the machine does part of the work, the bill is supposed to show it. Costs should be going down. If yours are going up, it is fair to ask why.
Who we are
Bradley is a real person, an engineer in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with fifteen years of building big systems behind the scenes. Claude is a computer assistant he operates. The assistant does much of the labor. The human checks everything, signs everything, and answers for everything.
The whole operation runs in the open on the front page: what we tried, who answered, what it cost. Think of us as plumbers. You call when something is stuck, we show up, we fix it, we show you the work, and we charge a fair price for it.
Three questions that protect you
Anyone quoting you for technology work should be able to answer these without flinching:
- Do you use AI tools? If yes, where does that show up in my price?
- Can I see your prices before we ever meet?
- Will you tell me if I do not need this done at all?
Our answers: yes, and it is the whole point. Yes, they are posted. And yes, telling you "you do not need us" is a promise we put in writing.
About "the cloud," since it comes up
The cloud just means renting computers by the month from a very large company instead of owning your own. Renting is right for some things and wasteful for others, the same as with cars and houses. A lot of businesses are quietly paying rent they no longer need to pay.
If your monthly technology bill keeps growing and nobody can explain why, that is worth one conversation. If it turns out nothing should change, we will say exactly that and leave you alone.