Small studio, serious software
Software that
holds up.
We design, build and run custom software: healthcare systems that have to pass an audit, web and mobile apps in both stores, and native Mac software. One studio, end to end, and you work with the engineer who builds it.
Who you'll work with
Marcus Malcom
Founder & Principal Engineer · Portland, Oregon
Twenty-seven years building software, most of it in healthcare: health information exchange at OCHIN, secure clinical messaging at Mirth, and since 2019 the data-capture and monitoring tools behind medical-device clinical trials. Oregon State, computer science.
You work with me directly. I scope it, I build it, and I run it after launch.
Healthcare
Where software has to be right, provable and private
Most of our client work is in healthcare, built by an engineer who has shipped it to production and still runs it.
Clinical-trial data platform, in production since 2019
Built for a medical-device sponsor and still run by us: electronic case report forms, subject and visit tracking, and the submit, review and verify workflow a trial depends on. Audit trails are written server-side and never edited or deleted, as 21 CFR Part 11 requires.
- Audit trails built for 21 CFR Part 11
- HIPAA-aware AWS backends, encrypted at rest, with point-in-time recovery
- HL7 interfaces and health data exchange
- Validation documentation and security questionnaires on request
What we do
Software, built with care
The standard healthcare demands, brought to everything else we build.
Medical software
Production software for clinical research and health data, like the trial platform above.
- Data capture, review and verification workflows
- Health data interoperability and exchange
- Custom patient-facing applications
Web, mobile & Mac
From first sketch to a shipped product: web applications and SaaS platforms, iOS and Android apps in both stores, and native macOS software. The products below are ours, designed, built and run end to end.
Happiness
We start with a short discovery, then show you working software as it takes shape. Fixed-bid or time-and-materials, your call. You own the code.
Adventure
From a sketch to an app in both stores, or a system that has to hold up at audit. If we can't run it well after launch, we say so before you sign.
Built and run by us
Our own software, in production
Proof of how we'd build yours: we design it, ship it, and answer for it after launch.
Shyre
One record from pitch to payment. Hours log themselves as people and their coding agents work, then become proposals, invoices and client-signed sign-offs. Fixed-bid, not-to-exceed or time-and-materials. $7 per person a month; $4 during early access.
See pricingShyre Ward
A private assistant that lives on your Mac. Its model runs on the machine, so your questions, your files and what it remembers stay there. It looks things up on the web and shows the pages it read, and it checks the Mac itself for anything that should not be there. No account, no server, no telemetry.
We're releasing it in stages; availability is expanding soon.
Request early access
Also ours · A free learning gameQuillQuest
A spelling, times-tables, division and touch-typing game for grades 3–8. Play all four in the browser; the iOS and Android apps cover spelling, times tables and division.
- Free
- No ads
- No accounts
- No tracking
Side project
Oregon's Universal Health Plan, explained
Oregon's Universal Health Plan Governance Board has proposed one public health plan for everyone in the state, paid for with new taxes instead of premiums. Its draft report runs 77 pages. We read it, checked its math, and wrote the short version.
- What it covers, and what happens to the coverage you have
- The five tax models, side by side
- A calculator for what your household would pay
Get in touch
Tell us what you're building
Tell us what it does, who uses it, when it needs to ship and whether it touches patient data. Marcus reads every message and replies himself.
- You send a note. A few lines is enough. There's no brief to prepare.
- We talk it through. A 30-minute video call with Marcus: questions, constraints, what done looks like. No obligation.
- You get a written proposal. Scope, timeline and price in writing, fixed bid or time and materials, and you own the code.