We learned to build software by watching businesses outgrow it.
Hodessy began by building websites for businesses, grew into connecting their tools and engineering complex features, and became an engineering firm. We have spent our whole life close to companies at the moment their tools stop keeping up. That history is why we work the way we do.
We started by building for the web.
In our early years we built business websites and marketing sites. Clients soon asked for more: connecting their tools, automating steps, adding features no template offered. Each request took us further into how their businesses actually ran, and taught us to judge our work by whether people use it every day.
For you, that means a team that has built every layer, from the screen your customers see to the systems behind it.
Our clients kept reaching the same ceiling.
As they grew, they spent more each year on separate tools for sales, operations, the field and finance. Those tools still left a large share of the work in spreadsheets and phone calls. The companies that broke through were the ones whose systems matched the way they really worked.
For you, that means a partner who knows where generic software fails, because we have watched it fail up close.
So we became engineers of operations.
Today Hodessy is a digital forward engineering firm. We embed alongside owners, dispatchers and operations leaders on the floor to design and build the systems their companies run on, and we stay on to run and extend them as the business changes.
For you, that means one firm that understands the business, designs for your people and engineers for the long term.
The web taught us to build for the people using it. Our clients taught us where software lets them down. Engineering lets us build what they actually need.
Portrait: Stephen Osunwale, natural light
Stephen Osunwale
Stephen Osunwale leads Hodessy as Principal Systems Architect and Lead Forward Deployed Engineer. He takes part in every engagement personally, embedding directly on client operations floors to architect and build custom software around how the business actually runs.
Stephen is a great partner — careful, thorough, trustworthy, everything you need in a development professional.
Three principles behind every system.
Every line earns its place.
If a feature does not save your team time, remove a bottleneck or help win revenue, we do not build it.
Built to last.
Sound foundations and records that stay correct on the busiest day of the year, so the system grows with you instead of needing replacement.
Yours outright.
The code, infrastructure and deployment belong to your company from day one. You are never dependent on us to keep the lights on.
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