Custom software development in Orange County

For scale: Groovy Web puts a first-year in-house AI team at $1 million to $1.8 million loaded, with a three to six month ramp before anything ships.

The two options in the middle look cheaper than they price out.

You do, outright. On delivery you get the source, the repository, the infrastructure config and the documentation. No license back to us. No per-seat fee, and nothing parked on our account.

We never resell your build. What you paid for is your workflow written down in code, and selling that to a competitor would be selling the only reason it was worth having.

No lock-in clause, no exit fee. Take the code to another developer or run it yourself. Where it can be done, everything runs in your accounts under your billing, so leaving doesn't require our cooperation or even a phone call.

Discovery works the same way. The $2,500 buys documents you own. If you decide not to build with us, take them to any shop you like and hand them the acceptance test.

Because "works" got written down before anyone opened an editor. Discovery ends with an acceptance test in plain English. It names the real inputs, the output each one has to produce, and where the pass line sits.

Then the guarantee on the build: we work it until it passes your acceptance test. Not until the hours run out, not until the sprint ends.

The test runs against your actual records rather than a tidy sample, and that is deliberate. Gartner attributes 85% of AI project failures to data quality, and IDC finds 65% of teams naming data readiness as the blocker. Bad data is the most common way a build dies quietly. Better to hit it in week two of a $2,500 discovery than in month five of a $250,000 build.

Same discipline on the AI side of the practice, described at AI consulting.

MIT's NANDA report found that buying from a specialized vendor ships a working AI system about 67% of the time, roughly twice the rate of building it internally. Most of that gap is just having done it before.

A short active list is a qualifier, not an apology. It is what keeps the engineers who mapped your workflow on the keyboard writing your code.

Yes. Remote across the US, and it works fine.

Orange County is home base, so in-person is easy in Irvine, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Santa Ana, Anaheim, Tustin and Huntington Beach. For a local company, discovery usually includes a day or two on site watching the work actually happen, which is worth more than any interview.

Everywhere else, discovery runs on calls, screen recordings and your data. Building is building. What actually matters is a few hours of time-zone overlap and one person inside the company who can answer a question the same day. A company in Denver with an engaged operations lead gets a better build than a company in Tustin whose sponsor is unreachable.