Software built around your business.
Not the other way around.
We embed senior engineers with small and mid-sized teams to build the software and AI systems your operation actually needs — in weeks, without hiring a dev team, and you own everything we build.
Built for organizations of roughly 20–500 people · You own everything we build
LPPSolutions-ai just opened its doors in Pittsburgh. Our first clients get the founding engineers embedded in their team at founding-engagement rates. We take a few projects at a time — that's the only way embedded work gets done properly.
Where teams usually find us
Four situations, one underlying problem: the software doesn't match how the business actually runs.
"We can't find software that fits us."
You've evaluated the products. Every one of them asks you to change how you work to match how it was built — and the way you work is part of why you win.
→ We build the system that's missing, shaped around your process.
"We're paying too much for software that doesn't fit."
Per-seat pricing on a platform your team uses a fraction of. Features you'll never touch, the one you need sitting on a roadmap you don't control, and integrations that never quite worked.
→ We replace or consolidate it with something you own — and move your history across.
"It's held together by people and spreadsheets."
Excel, email, manual data entry between systems that don't talk — and one person who knows how all of it fits together. It works, until they're on vacation.
→ We turn that process into a real system, without losing what makes it work.
"Our internal system is aging out."
An Access database, an old internal app, something a contractor built years ago. It still runs the business, nobody left can maintain it, and every change is a risk.
→ We rebuild it on current foundations, with the institutional logic intact.
Custom solutions that work the way you work
Whether that means replacing an expensive SaaS subscription, automating work your team does by hand, modernizing an aging internal system, or building something that doesn't exist yet — our Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) work directly with your team and deliver in weeks, not quarters. AI where it earns its place, plain engineering everywhere else.
Our core services
Every solution is built with three principles: speed, accuracy, and cost efficiency.
Custom operational software
The tool that fits the way your business actually works — quoting, scheduling, dispatch, order processing, inventory, reporting. Built around your process instead of forcing your process into someone else's product, and wired into the systems you already use.
SaaS replacement & migration
Paying per seat for a tool your team uses a fraction of? We replace it with something you own — and we move your history with it. Years of records come across intact, both systems run in parallel until you're confident, and nobody loses a day of work during the switch.
AI agents & automation
Hand the repetitive work to software: reading invoices and POs, triaging support email, drafting quotes, chasing exceptions. Agents follow your rules, escalate to a human when they should, and get measured against your own test cases — we ship when it clears your bar, not ours.
Connecting the systems you already have
Most operations run on a patchwork — accounting here, CRM there, the real numbers in a spreadsheet someone maintains by hand. We connect those pieces into one source of truth, so the data flows on its own and your team stops re-keying it.
What we actually build
Not moonshots. The unglamorous systems your operation runs on every day — the ones no vendor will build for you because your process isn't the same as everyone else's.
Admin that runs itself
- Quote and proposal generation
- Invoice & PO data extraction
- Order processing and checks
- Contract and document review
Getting the right person there
- Dispatch and route planning
- Technician and crew scheduling
- Work orders and job tracking
- Inventory and parts forecasting
Faster answers, fewer drops
- Support triage and routing
- Internal copilots for sales & CS
- Customer and client portals
- Self-serve quoting tools
One version of the truth
- Consolidating scattered spreadsheets
- Live operational dashboards
- Demand and capacity forecasting
- Automated recurring reports
Don't see yours? These are patterns, not a menu. If a process eats hours every week and no product on the market quite fits it, that's the conversation.
Replace SaaS bloat with custom
AI-powered solutions
A subscription is rent. Every month you pay for a product built to satisfy thousands of other companies, and every month you're further from owning the system your business depends on. Replacing it is usually the fastest payback we can point at.
Eliminate recurring costs
One-time development investment vs. perpetual subscriptions.
Own your data
Complete control over storage, access, and usage.
Perfect fit
Built for your exact workflows, not generic templates.
No vendor lock-in
You own the code, infrastructure, and intellectual property.
Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) work alongside your team
Our FDE approach means engineers embed directly with your organization, understanding your workflows at a granular level. No more explaining requirements through layers of project managers.
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Rapid iteration cycles
Daily feedback loops ensure the solution evolves with your needs.
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Complete transparency
Full visibility into development progress and technical decisions.
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Knowledge transfer
Your team learns the system as it's built, ensuring long-term success.
FDE = AI Infra · Domain knowledge · Full-stack data science · AI apps dev — with great communication at the core.
Five phases, start to production
Discovery to live system in 4–12 weeks, with clear deliverables and a demo at every step. You always know what's happening and what's next.
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1Discovery3–5 days
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2Design5–7 days
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3Build2–6 weeks
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4Deploy2–3 days
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5OptimizeOngoing
Why FDE works for a team your size
Most small and mid-sized organizations are stuck choosing between two bad options. Off-the-shelf software almost fits — but the vendor has thousands of customers and no reason to build your workflow. Building an in-house engineering team means recruiting, salaries, and management overhead that the problem doesn't justify.
Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) are the third option. A senior engineer embeds with your team for the length of a project — no job postings, no headcount, no long-term salary commitment — then hands over the system, the source code, and the knowledge to run it.
We build it to be operated by the people you already have — clear admin screens, plain documentation, managed hosting with no server to babysit — and stay on a support retainer as long as you want one. If you do have a small dev team, we work inside your repo instead, so they review the code as it's written and can extend it after we leave.
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Keep the SaaS that almost fits
Pay per seat forever. Work around the gaps in spreadsheets. Wait on a roadmap you don't control.
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Hire an engineering team
Months of recruiting, competing salaries, and someone senior to manage them — before a line of code exists.
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Embed an FDE
A senior engineer inside your team for weeks. You get the system, the source code, and the knowledge to run it.
How we work
Four commitments that shape every engagement — and one we'd rather say out loud: we build exactly what you need, not what could be sold to the most customers.
Embedded collaboration
Engineers work where you work — on-site at your office or integrated into your remote workflows.
Rapid iteration
Daily demos and feedback sessions ensure the solution evolves correctly. No waiting weeks for the next milestone.
Technical ownership
You receive complete documentation, source code, and infrastructure setup. No black boxes.
Knowledge transfer
Your team learns the system as it's built, ensuring long-term maintainability and independence.
Industry-wide ranges commonly reported for AI adoption and SaaS consolidation — not results from our own engagements. These are the targets we scope against; we agree on the metrics that matter with you before we build.
Software that fits how you actually work
We believe a 60-person company deserves software built for its exact operation just as much as a 60,000-person one — and that it shouldn't take an in-house engineering department to get there.
Our mission
Give small and mid-sized organizations the same quality of custom software that large companies build in-house — without the headcount, the timeline, or the price tag.
We started LPPSolutions-ai after watching too many good operations run on software that almost fits. A distributor tracking real inventory in a spreadsheet because the ERP module costs more than the problem. A services company paying per seat for a platform their team uses a fraction of. A back office where three people spend their mornings retyping the same data between two systems that don't talk.
None of those are hard engineering problems. They stay unsolved because buying software means accepting someone else's process, and building it has traditionally meant hiring a team you can't justify. Our Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) approach removes that trade-off. You get exactly what you need, built by senior engineers who sit with your team and learn your domain — delivered in weeks, and yours to keep.
- Founded2026
- HQPittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
- Team3 Engineers
- ModelForward Deployed
- FocusIn-house AI apps
Combined team experience
Is this the right fit?
We'd rather tell you no on the first call than take work we're wrong for.
- ✓Run a business of roughly 20–500 people
- ✓Have a process that's genuinely specific to how you operate
- ✓Are paying for software that only partly fits — or holding it together with spreadsheets
- ✓Have a decision-maker who can say yes without a six-month committee
- ✓Want to own what gets built, not license it forever
- ×Need something a mature off-the-shelf product already does well — we'll tell you to just buy it
- ×Are shopping purely on lowest hourly rate
- ×Want a fixed quote before anyone has looked at your workflow
- ×Can't give us a few hours a week with the people who do the actual work
- ×Need a vendor to take full ownership so your team never has to think about it
Ready to replace SaaS bloat with something built for you?
Tell us what's eating hours in your week. 48-hour response, and the first call is with the engineer who'd do the work — not a salesperson.
You don't need a spec, a budget, or a technical contact to start the conversation. A description of the problem is enough.
Opens your email client with a starter template pre-filled.
What happens next: we reply within 48 hours · 30-minute call with the engineer, no sales deck · a scoped proposal with timeline and fixed price.