Portland, Oregon · NW eSource

A custom business application development army.

Custom software, dashboards, analytics, and integrations — scoped in a conversation, live in days. The kind of output that used to take a dev team and a quarter.

Technically, the army is Claude & I. We've stopped counting which of us is the general.

Charles M. Montgomery
Charles M. Montgomery — the human half of the army. Read a bit of my history.
The Army

One technologist with 200+ business builds behind him. One AI that never sleeps. That's the whole org chart.

My mission hasn't changed in two decades: help businesses profit greater, and make doing business more fun. What's changed is the firepower. AI-assisted development isn't a gimmick here — it's the operating model. I direct, architect, and own every decision. Claude writes, tests, and deploys at a pace no agency can touch. You get CTO-level judgment with army-scale throughput, and none of the agency overhead baked into your invoice.

What that means for you

Discovery & scopingone conversation
First working versiondays, not quarters
Changes & new featuresask, then refresh
Meetings about meetingszero

What it doesn't mean

It doesn't mean AI slop. Every application ships with real authentication, real SSL, real backups, on real infrastructure — and a human who answers email when you want something changed. The AI multiplies the work; it doesn't replace the accountability. That part is still very much me.

Seeking a CTO? That headline sat on this site for years, and it still applies — strategy, vendor wrangling, technology adoption, project management. The difference is that now, when the CTO says "we should build that," it's built by Friday.
What We Build

If software can do it, we can build it.

From a one-page brochure site to a custom intelligence console that reads your whole business — same army, same light speed. Filter by what you need, or tap any card to see what it really means.

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Marketing / Brochure Site

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Sites

The "here's who we are and why to call" site — fast, gorgeous, mobile-first, built to convert a visitor into a lead. This very site, in 49 minutes.

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Landing & Campaign Pages

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Sites

Single-purpose pages built around one offer and one button, wired to your ads so you know exactly what each click is worth.

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eCommerce Store

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Sites

Sell online with a checkout that doesn't fight your customer. Products, payments, shipping, tax — and a back office that actually tells you what's selling.

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Booking & Scheduling Site

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Sites

Let customers book the slot themselves — calendars, reminders, deposits, no phone tag. Synced to the tools you already run on.

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Membership / Subscription Site

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Sites

Gated content, recurring billing, member-only areas. Turn one-time buyers into a monthly base.

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Directory / Listings

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Sites

Searchable, filterable listings at scale — practitioners, properties, providers. We've stood one up on 6M+ records.

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Marketplace

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Sites

Many sellers, one storefront — vendor onboarding, split payouts, ratings. The hard version of eCommerce, done right.

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Content / Publishing / Blog

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Sites

A real publishing engine for SEO and authority — fast pages, clean structure, the search visibility a 2013 WordPress never gave you.

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Event & Registration

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Sites

Sign-ups, tickets, schedules, check-in. One page that runs the whole event instead of a spreadsheet and crossed fingers.

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Knowledge Base / Docs

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Sites

A searchable answer library so your team and your customers stop asking you the same question twice.

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CRM

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Application

Every customer, every conversation, every next step — in one place that fits how you sell, not how a SaaS vendor guessed you do.

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LMS / Training & Courses

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Application

Deliver lessons, track completion, issue certificates. For onboarding staff, training franchisees, or selling courses outright.

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Client & Customer Portals

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Application

A logged-in home for each client — projects, files, invoices, status. Like the NW eSource client portal.

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Operator / Admin Console

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Application

The control room for your operation — the one screen your team lives in all day, built around your actual workflow.

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Inventory & Supply Chain

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Application

Not just counts on a shelf — supply velocity: days-of-stock left per item, reorder before you run out, which SKUs are climbing and which are quietly dying.

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Order Management & Fulfillment

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Application

From order to doorstep in one tracked loop — no more "where's my stuff" emails landing on your desk.

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POS / Point of Sale

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Application

Ring a sale and have it flow straight into inventory, books, and your dashboard — no nightly re-keying.

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Field Service & Dispatch

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Application

Order, route, serve, report — for mobile teams. Mobile X-ray & EKG: facility orders, dispatch routes it, results flow back.

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Quoting → Proposal → Invoicing

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Application

One pipeline from "here's the price" to "you've been paid" — quotes that become proposals that become invoices, no copy-paste.

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Practice Management

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Application

The morning-huddle view, the unscheduled-treatment hit list, the recall machine — custom screens on top of the system your practice already runs on.

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Proposals & Estimates

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Tool

Build a proposal, send it, the client accepts — and it becomes an invoice automatically, no re-keying. Hero Fence: proposal → accepted → Square invoice.

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Quote & Pricing Calculators

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Tool

Let the customer get a real price the instant they want it — and drop the calculator straight onto your existing site.

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Document & PDF Generators

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Tool

Contracts, invoices, certificates, reports — generated on demand, branded, and sent, instead of hand-edited from a template every time.

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Site Capture & Monitoring

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Tool

Automated screenshots and visual snapshots of any site, on a schedule or a trigger. SiteShots, from the NW eDash console.

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Embeddable Widgets

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Tool

A booking box, a calculator, a lead form — built once and dropped into any site you already own, no rebuild required.

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Generators & Converters

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Tool

QR codes, asset packs, bulk format transforms — the small jobs you'd otherwise do by hand a hundred times, done in one click.

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Browser Extensions

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Tool

A custom button right in your team's browser that does the one repetitive thing they do all day — wherever they already work.

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Business Intelligence Dashboard

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Intelligence

Your business is already telling you what to do. We build the dashboard that listens — ad accounts, CRM, store, and books in one pane of glass: what's working, what's not, what to do next.

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Tracking & Analytics

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Intelligence

Not just how many visits — but which visits became customers, and what they did that the bouncers didn't. Per site, per email, per dollar.

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Funnel & Attribution

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Intelligence

Not just leads — but cost per closed deal, by channel and keyword, with the leaks priced in real dollars so you know what to scale and what to kill.

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Forecasting & Alerts

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Intelligence

Not just what happened — but who's about to churn, what's about to run out, and an email in your inbox before it costs you.

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Integration Middleware

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Connect & Automate

Website leads into your payment system. CRM talking to email. Invoices born from finished jobs. If both ends have an API, we build the bridge — and the copy-paste stops.

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Workflow Automation

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Connect & Automate

The repetitive thing your team does 40 times a day — done automatically, correctly, every time, while they do the work only humans can.

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AI Agents & Copilots

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Connect & Automate

Reports that write themselves overnight. Outreach that drafts, sends, and logs itself. Monitors that watch your systems so you don't have to.

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Marketing & Email Automation

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Connect & Automate

The right message to the right person at the right moment — sequences, segments, and open/click tracking that ties back to actual sales.

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Lead-Gen & Outreach

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Connect & Automate

Find them, reach them, track them. Distance-sorted prospect lists, templated sends, every touch logged. 411 dentists, one console.

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Data Wrangling at Any Scale

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Connect & Automate

Millions of rows cleaned, deduplicated, geocoded, made searchable. Legacy exports rescued. 6M+ records into a fast, queryable product.

The Second Layer

Your software used to just remember.
Now it thinks.

For decades, business software was an expensive filing cabinet — it recorded what happened and waited for you to go read it. That's Layer 1, and every system above has one. Layer 2 is the new part: an intelligence layer that reads all of Layer 1 and tells you what it means and what to do — the kind of thing that used to need a Fortune 500's data team and now fits a business your size. Everything we build now ships with it.

Layer 1 · what you already had

The systems of record

The 30 things above — store, CRM, inventory, books, dashboard. They capture what happened. Essential, and completely silent.

Layer 2 · the new part

The intelligence layer 🧠

Reads every signal in the systems underneath, surfaces what actually matters, and hands you the verdict — scale it, watch it, fix it, kill it. Never seen before at small-business scale.

Layer 2 only works because Layer 1 is finally all in one place — which is the other half of what we do.

Layer 1 — it records
Layer 2 — it advises
Counts how many orders came in
Sees demand bending weeks before it's obvious — by SKU, by customer
Tells you what's on the shelf
Tells you what to reorder and when, before you ever run out
Stores who bought from you
Flags who's about to leave while you can still pick up the phone
Tallies clicks and email opens
Names the one campaign that actually closed the sale
Adds up your revenue
Shows true margin by product line — and how exposed you are to your top 5 customers
Draws you another chart
Hands you the verdict: scale it, watch it, fix it, kill it
The unlock: AI didn't just make Layer 2 possible — it made it affordable. The insight a Fortune 500 pays a data team six figures for, your business can now have for the price of a custom build. That's the level playing field nobody's told you about yet.
The Big One

Reimagine the interface of any software you already pay for.

Here's the secret the software industry doesn't advertise: if a product has a full API, you are no longer stuck with its interface. We build the screen your team actually needs on top of the system you already own — your workflow, your language, your one-page view.

CASE SHAPE · DENTAL

Practice Management, Reimagined

Your PMS holds everything and shows you nothing. We build the morning-huddle view, the unscheduled-treatment hit list, the recall machine — custom screens on top of the system your practice already runs on, shaped by how you actually work the schedule.

CASE SHAPE · MOBILE MEDICAL

Service Ordering Layers

Mobile X-ray, EKG, ultrasound — facilities shouldn't order portable diagnostics by fax and phone tag. We build the ordering layer: facility logs in, places the order, dispatch routes it, results flow back. One clean loop on top of your existing systems.

The rule is simple: any software with a full API can now have a custom interface shaped exactly for your business. The era of "that's just how the software works" is over.
The Execution

No discovery phase. No statement of work theater. Just velocity.

Bring me the problem and you'll be reacting to working software — not a slide deck about working software. Here's the whole process.

STEP 01

Tell me the pain

A call or an email. Describe the thing that wastes your team's time or hides your numbers. I'll tell you on the spot whether it's buildable and roughly what it takes.

STEP 02

The army builds

Working software in days — on a real URL with a real login, so you react to the actual thing instead of a slide deck about the thing.

STEP 03

Live, then alive

Deployed on managed infrastructure with SSL, auth, and backups — or on yours. Then it keeps evolving: want a change, send a sentence.

Charles Montgomery
Real businesses · Real systems · Really shipped — no Fortune 500 logos, that's the point
Goldstar ATM Dateline Concrete Professional Formulas Revolution Dental Implants Practice Management Systems Hero Fence
Deploy The Army

The best time to fix your software was five years ago.

The second best time is this week — literally, this week. Bring me the spreadsheet you hate, the tools that won't talk, or the interface your team curses at. We'll have something live before a traditional shop returns your intake form.

This website is wired to drop your request into our custom NW eDash Console — and was created, edited, and hosted in 49 minutes.