You run the business. I consult on what's slowing it down, then build the fix, and you own it.

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fixed quotes, always · yours end to end · live in weeks · one operator

The work

Every engagement starts as consulting: thirty minutes on the phone, then a plain-English read on what's actually wrong. If software is the answer, I quote one number and build it. If it isn't, I say so.

the piece that fits →

№ 1 · custom software

The tool that almost fits, rebuilt to actually fit.

Quoting, scheduling, invoicing, the spreadsheet that became the business, rebuilt as a web app or a real iPhone and Android app on the store. It's built to how your shop runs: a web app in weeks, a native app in a couple of months, with no per-seat license and no vendor to chase.

read more →web $2,500 · apps $7,500+
done ✓

№ 2 · AI automation

The by-hand work, done by systems you own.

Document intake, follow-ups, scheduling, the Friday report. Set it up once in your own accounts, and after that it's just how things work. No subscription to me.

read more →per workflow · fixed
releases, on cadence

№ 3 · consulting, for software companies

Predictable releases. A cloud bill you can explain.

Fractional engineering operations — release strategy, FinOps, and the AI delivery engine that lets a small team ship like a large one — about two days a week, from someone who has run it at Fortune-100 scale.

read more →from $6k/mo
the keys, handed over

Owned end to end means exactly that: code in your repo, data in your database, accounts in your name, from day one. If we part ways tomorrow, everything keeps working and it's all still yours.

The operator

Steadfast Work is one person: a Fortune-100 engineering operations executive who builds and runs the software behind his own companies with an AI delivery engine — agents that plan, draft, code, test, and ship under one experienced hand, so a team of one delivers what used to take a room full of people. When you call, you get the person doing the work, and most people arrive here by referral.

Thirty minutes gets you a fixed quote, or an honest no.

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if I can't help, I'll point you to whoever can · craig@steadfastwork.com · Indianapolis, IN · © 2026 · steady is a strategy

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