Custom software development company in Georgia.

• An Atlanta or Alpharetta agency

  Incorporated in Georgia, on Eastern time all day, able to sit in your office. You are buying proximity, a domestic invoice and a procurement file with nothing unusual in it. Right for work that needs hands on a dock, a set or a hospital floor, or a purchasing process that expects a supplier in the state.

• A contract or staffing shop

  Engineers billed by the hour into a process you run. You are buying capacity; architecture, code review, QA and release management stay with your own lead. Right when you already have an engineering manager with the time to direct more people.

• A remote engineering partner

  A small senior team that owns a defined build, works your morning from outside the country and hands over the repository at the end. No local entity, so the contract, the tax form and the security questionnaire need doing properly on day one. Right when you know what the system must do and want it built well the first time.

We are the third. When the first or second is the better answer for you, you hear it on the first call, not after a deposit.

• A remote partner is right when

  • ✓The system’s job can be written down, and one person on your side can decide without convening a committee.
  • ✓The work is a defined build, rebuild or extension rather than a programme whose sponsor changes each quarter.
  • ✓Four live hours in the Eastern morning are enough for decisions, and the afternoon can run on a written handover.
  • ✓You want the repository, the pipeline and the documentation in your own hands rather than held as a reason to keep paying.
  • ✓Card, financial or health data is involved and your compliance lead will set the rules and review the evidence we produce against them.

• Hire in Georgia instead when

  • ✓Your purchasing rules, a grant condition or a flow-down clause from a bank partner or a customer require a supplier incorporated in the United States.
  • ✓Somebody has to be physically present: terminals on a merchant floor, scanners on a dock at Garden City, a device on a set.
  • ✓Your security policy forbids production access from outside the country and the work cannot be done against masked data.
  • ✓Your decision-makers are only free after lunch Eastern time and the build cannot run on a morning-plus-handover rhythm.
  • ✓What you really need is contractors under your own architect, in which case a staffing shop costs you less management than we would.

• 01

  Read the rows we lose first.

  A table one supplier wins outright is a brochure. The rows where a local agency wins are real, and a buyer who finds them here has been served better by this page than by a pitch deck.

• 02

  Where the engineers sit and where the card data sits are two facts.

  Your platform can run in a US cloud region under your own account, with the cardholder data environment limited to the processor, while the people writing it work from Ahmedabad. Most of an assessment gets simpler once that boundary is drawn.

• 03

  Capacity is not delivery.

  Contractors add hands to a process you already run. If nobody on your side holds architecture, review and release quality, more hands produce more code and not a working system.

• 04

  US-only clauses are binary, so ask early.

  A bank sponsor’s requirement, a federal grant condition or a purchasing rule requiring work performed in the United States rules us out, and engineering quality does not change that. Raise it on the first call and the answer comes the same day.

• Payments

  Merchant, settlement and reconciliation tooling

  Merchant onboarding and underwriting workflows, fee schedules, settlement and chargeback reporting, residual calculations and partner portals for payments companies, ISOs and fintechs, with the primary account number kept at the processor and out of the code we write.

• Freight

  Air, port and road logistics systems

  Dispatch, appointment and dock scheduling, drayage and container tracking, proof of delivery and exception handling for carriers, forwarders and 3PLs working Hartsfield-Jackson cargo, the Garden City terminal at Savannah and the warehouse belt along I-75 and I-85.

• Production

  Production-office and vendor software

  Crew scheduling, call sheets, timecards, asset and equipment tracking, vendor onboarding and cost reporting for studios, production companies and the vendors around them, built so a wrap report is a query rather than a weekend.

• Clinic

  Clinic operations and care coordination

  Scheduling, intake, referral tracking and follow-up workflows beside the EHR for physician groups, behavioural-health and home-health providers inside and outside the Perimeter, built to the HIPAA Security Rule safeguards.

• Food

  Processing, traceability and grower records

  Lot tracking, supplier and grower records, temperature and sanitation logs, recall drills and preventive-controls documentation for poultry, produce and nut processors, so the record an inspector asks for takes minutes rather than a binder search.

• Product

  SaaS products and first versions

  Tenanted products with billing, roles, usage limits and an audit history, for a founding team in Midtown or Alpharetta, or for a company turning an internal tool into something it can sell.

1. Discovery, then a scope on paper

   One call to trace how the work moves today, who touches it and where it breaks, then a written scope with the exclusions named. No estimate leaves here on the strength of a conversation, and the document is yours either way.

   A scope, a price range for phase one and the name of the engineer who would lead it.

   48 hours

2. Prototype and architecture

   Clickable screens in the first week so your operations lead reacts to something real. Alongside them the data model, the permission scheme, the cardholder-data boundary where there is one, the hosting region and the rollback plan, agreed in writing before an editor is opened.

   Approved screens, an architecture note your CTO can read, and a data-handling position your compliance lead has seen.

   1–2 weeks

3. Build in two-week slices

   Working software demonstrated every fortnight in your morning, against your own records rather than sample data. Each slice is checked against the scope with you on the call, so progress is seen rather than reported.

   Modules proven against real cases, and a backlog you have shaped as you went.

   6–14 weeks, by scope

4. Harden, then go live

   Permissions, load, backups, monitoring and a rehearsed rollback signed off before anyone in Georgia logs in. Where an assessor will want an audit trail or a scoping document, it is delivered here and not promised for later.

   A release your security office or assessor can accept, with the evidence attached.

   2–3 weeks

5. Operate and extend

   Monitoring, a support window on Eastern hours, and the next slice of roadmap chosen from what your users actually do rather than what the plan assumed in month one.

   Software that keeps paying for itself, and a team that can hand it to yours whenever you want.

   Monthly, 30 days notice

• First system

  Retiring the spreadsheet that runs the desk or the dock

  A residuals workbook, a dispatch grid, an approvals inbox and one person who knows the exceptions, replaced by a system with roles, an approval trail and a record of who did what and when. For operations, merchant-services and finance teams.

• Rebuild

  Replacing a system that has aged out

  A desktop tool, an Access database or an early web portal rebuilt as something maintainable, without losing fifteen years of records or retraining a whole floor in one weekend. For teams on software nobody supports any more.

• Finding

  Bringing a live system up to its obligations

  Drawing a cardholder-data boundary, adding an unalterable audit trail, access reviews, retention rules or breach-scoping logs to software built before anyone asked. An assessment finding or a bank sponsor’s deadline is usually what starts it. For teams facing an assessment, an audit or a new rule.

• Extension

  Building around the system of record

  Portals, modules, dashboards and interfaces layered over a processor platform, a TMS, an ERP or an EHR, so the record stays where it is and the retyping around it disappears. For companies extending rather than replacing a core.

1. 01

   Payments and fintech

   Metro Atlanta is known in the industry as Transaction Alley for the processors, gateways, card-programme managers and fintechs clustered along the Alpharetta corridor and in Midtown. Merchant onboarding, underwriting workflows, settlement and chargeback reporting, residual calculations and partner portals, built with the primary account number kept at the processor so most of the PCI DSS scope stays out of your code.

2. 02

   Air, port and road logistics

   Hartsfield-Jackson moves cargo around the clock, the Port of Savannah’s Garden City terminal feeds a warehouse belt up I-16 and I-75, and the distribution parks along I-85 serve the Southeast. Dispatch, appointment and dock scheduling, drayage and container tracking, proof of delivery and multi-site inventory, with EDI and API links to the TMS and WMS on either side.

3. 03

   Film, television and media production

   The studios and stages around Atlanta, and the vendors that serve them, run on crew schedules, call sheets, timecards, equipment lists and cost reports that still travel as spreadsheets and PDFs. Production-office tooling, vendor onboarding and asset tracking built so a wrap report is a query rather than a weekend.

4. 04

   Health systems and physician groups

   Atlanta’s health systems, and the physician groups, behavioural-health and home-health providers around them inside and outside the Perimeter, run scheduling, referral and intake tools never designed for the volume. We build beside the EHR rather than against it, to the HIPAA Security Rule safeguards and the rules your privacy officer sets.

5. 05

   Manufacturing and aerospace

   Automotive and EV plants in west and coastal Georgia, aerospace work around Marietta and Savannah, and the component and packaging plants that supply them. Work orders, bills of materials, lot and serial traceability, job costing and inspection records for plants that still run part of the day on paper travellers.

6. 06

   Agriculture and food processing

   Poultry, produce, peanut and pecan processors and the growers behind them, south of Macon and across the coastal plain, whose lot records, temperature logs and supplier files still live in binders. Traceability, sanitation and preventive-controls records that an inspector can pull as a query, and a recall drill that takes minutes.

7. 07

   Technology companies and university spin-outs

   Data-heavy products, pipeline and instrument integrations, and the first commercial platform a research-led team from Midtown or Athens builds when a tool it made for itself turns out to be worth selling. CyberFind, a B2B review platform for security leaders, is the shape of that work: four years in production without a rewrite.

If your sector is not listed, our first question is the same one anyway: what does a day of this work look like, and where does it break?

1. 01

   PCI DSS, and keeping the cardholder-data environment small

   In Georgia the card-data question comes first, because so many buyers here are payments companies or sell to them. Our default is to keep the primary account number out of every system we write: the card is captured in the processor’s hosted field or SDK, and your platform stores a token, a brand and the last four digits. That keeps most of the PCI DSS scope at the processor rather than in your codebase, and it makes the cardholder-data boundary something an assessor can see on a diagram rather than infer from code. Where a client is itself a processor, gateway or programme manager and the cardholder-data environment is unavoidably theirs, the build follows the requirements directly: network segmentation, encryption of stored account data, no storage of sensitive authentication data after authorisation, unique IDs and multi-factor access to the environment, logging that cannot be altered, and change control with a documented review. Plugin, a club management system we built, takes bookings and card payments through Stripe. Your PCI obligations are yours, and which self-assessment questionnaire or report on compliance applies depends on how you take or process payments and what your acquirer or bank sponsor requires. We keep the scope small, document the boundary and say plainly when a requested feature would widen it. Sources: PCI DSS v4.0.1 · PCI Security Standards Council; requirements applied by the card brands and your acquiring bank.

   Payments

2. 02

   Georgia Personal Identity Protection Act

   Georgia’s breach statute, the Georgia Personal Identity Protection Act at O.C.G.A. § 10-1-910 through 10-1-912, requires an information broker or data collector that maintains computerised personal information about Georgia residents to notify affected residents of a breach of the security of the system in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, and to notify consumer reporting agencies when a breach passes the resident count the Act sets. The Act’s scope is narrower than many other states’ statutes: it is written around information brokers and data collectors, and whether a given business falls within it is a question for counsel. The engineering answer is the same either way, because a breach you cannot scope is a breach you cannot notify accurately: retained access logs, an audit trail that cannot be edited, alerting on unusual access and a rehearsed way of reconstructing which records were reached and by whom. Whether the Act applies to you, and what the notice must say and when, belongs to your counsel and your incident plan. The Act itself carries no standalone penalty clause; a failure to notify is pursued as an unfair or deceptive trade practice under the Fair Business Practices Act, so re-verify the current enforcement position with counsel before relying on this row. Sources: Georgia Personal Identity Protection Act, O.C.G.A. § 10-1-910 et seq. · Georgia Attorney General, Consumer Protection Division, under the Fair Business Practices Act.

   Breach notice

3. 03

   Consumer privacy: no comprehensive Georgia statute yet

   As of this writing Georgia has not enacted a comprehensive consumer data privacy law of the kind now in force in a number of other states. Bills have been introduced under the Gold Dome in recent sessions, so this row is dated and should be re-checked before each publish. The practical consequence is that privacy obligations for a Georgia company today come from the sector rules on this page, from the federal agencies that enforce them, and from the laws of the other states whose residents you serve. We design consent records, access and deletion handling, data inventories and retention rules into a system anyway, because the least costly moment to add them is before the first record exists. Whether a comprehensive statute has passed since this page was written, and whether you fall under another state’s law, is a question for your counsel. Sources: Georgia General Assembly legislative record; re-verify before publish.

   Watch list

4. 04

   GLBA Safeguards Rule for financial data

   Fintech and lenders. A fintech, lender, payment facilitator or other non-bank financial institution holding customer financial information is expected to maintain an information security programme under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and the FTC’s Safeguards Rule sets out what that programme must include: access controls, encryption, multi-factor authentication, logging and monitoring, change management and a tested incident response plan. Banks and credit unions answer to their own supervisors, and a fintech with a bank sponsor usually inherits that sponsor’s expectations through the partnership agreement. Which supervisor’s or sponsor’s rules apply is a question for your compliance officer. What we build is software that satisfies the technical controls whoever is asking: least-privilege access, multi-factor authentication, encryption, complete logging and a change history a reviewer can read. Sources: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act; FTC Safeguards Rule, 16 CFR Part 314 · Federal Trade Commission, and the sponsor bank’s supervisor where a bank partnership applies.

5. 05

   HIPAA Security Rule technical safeguards

   Where a system holds protected health information we build to the technical safeguards in the HIPAA Security Rule: unique user identification, role-scoped access, automatic logoff, encryption in transit and at rest, integrity controls and an audit trail that records who viewed a record, not only who changed it. Minimum necessary is decided in the data model at design time rather than argued about after go-live. A business associate agreement is not something we promise on a web page. Whether one is needed and what it says is your privacy officer’s and your counsel’s decision. We build to the safeguards, work under your compliance team’s rules and give them the engineering evidence to sign off. Sources: HIPAA Security Rule, 45 CFR Part 164 Subpart C · US Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights.

   Health data

6. 06

   SOC 2 and the vendor questionnaire

   Payments companies, health systems and the larger logistics operators in Georgia send a vendor security questionnaire mapped to the Trust Services Criteria before a contract is signed, and a fintech with a bank sponsor often passes the sponsor’s questionnaire straight through to its suppliers. We complete it ourselves rather than returning a brochure, and we answer with what we operate: named access with least privilege, change management through pull request and review, environment separation, logging and retention, backup and restore testing, staged releases, incident handling and a documented offboarding step when an engineer rolls off. If your policy requires an attestation report from the supplier itself, raise it at the first call. We will tell you our current position plainly, and where we cannot meet the bar we will say so rather than let the questionnaire discover it. Sources: AICPA Trust Services Criteria for Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality and Privacy.

   Vendor risk

We build systems that produce this evidence as a by-product of normal use rather than bolting a compliance module onto software that resists it. When an assessment, an audit or a sponsor’s deadline is driving your timeline, that date is where the plan starts.

1. 01

   Governing law and contract form

   We sign your master services agreement under Georgia law, with the venue, liability, indemnity and termination terms your counsel wants. We do not ask a client to contract under Indian law, and we do not run projects on an exchange of emails.

   Your paper

2. 02

   Tax form and invoicing

   As a non-US entity we send a completed Form W-8BEN-E to your accounts payable team before the first invoice. Invoices are in US dollars, against the milestones or the monthly rate in the contract, carrying whatever purchase order reference your finance system needs.

   W-8BEN-E

3. 03

   Ownership of the work

   Code, designs, infrastructure definitions and documentation are assigned to you as they are created, not on final payment. Repositories, cloud accounts and domains are opened in your name from the first commit, and every engineer on the account works under the same assignment and confidentiality terms.

   Assignment

4. 04

   Confidentiality

   An NDA is signed before you share anything sensitive, yours or ours, mutual by default. Your name, your product and your project appear nowhere as a reference without written permission.

   NDA

5. 05

   Security review and insurance

   Certificates of insurance are available on request. PCI, SOC 2 and vendor security questionnaires are answered by the engineers who would do the work, describing what we actually operate, with every no written as a no and the compensating control beside it.

   Vendor risk

6. 06

   Background checks

   If your policy or your bank sponsor requires checks on named engineers, common for payments and healthcare work, we arrange them and return the results through your process. Raise it at contract stage, because it adds time before anyone can start.

   On request

7. 07

   No entity in the United States, and what that rules out

   QalbIT has no United States entity, no Georgia office and no employee who can be in Atlanta on a Tuesday. Where a purchasing rule, a grant condition, a bank sponsor or a customer flow-down requires a domestic supplier or work performed on US soil, we are not eligible, and you will hear that on the first call rather than after a proposal.

   The limit

None of this argues against a remote partner. It argues for doing the paperwork properly at the start instead of assuming it away, which is why we raise it before the estimate and not after the contract.

• Backend and rules

  • ✓Laravel on PHP 8 for modular systems with a strong audit trail.
  • ✓NestJS on Node.js where processor webhooks, feeds and events dominate.
  • ✓Queues, schedulers and retries for settlement files, EDI and report runs.

• Interface

  • ✓Next.js and React, server-rendered where search brings the traffic.
  • ✓Fast keyboard-friendly screens for a merchant desk, a dispatch office or a set.
  • ✓Flutter for one mobile codebase on iOS and Android, offline-first.

• Data and interfaces

  • ✓PostgreSQL and MySQL with constraints that protect financial integrity.
  • ✓Tokenised card references, versioned records and append-only audit tables.
  • ✓REST, GraphQL and EDI integrations with processors, TMS, ERP and EHR systems.

• Security and delivery

  • ✓AWS accounts in your name, defined in Terraform rather than by hand.
  • ✓Least-privilege access, fully logged, break-glass reviewed after use.
  • ✓Staged releases through GitHub Actions, each one reversible.

• A note on sourcing

  A note on sourcing

  There are no market figures on this page: no Georgia salary bands, no agency rates, no failure-rate statistics that circulate without a primary source. The only numbers are our own and our clients’, each naming where it comes from. The Plugin outcomes above are as stated in that case study. If a figure matters to your decision, ask for the source and we will send it or withdraw the claim.

1. 01

   Eight years of this kind of work

   Custom software since 2018: 120+ engagements delivered for 50+ clients across web, mobile and platform work. Clutch 5.0 from 8 reviews, Google 4.9 from 18 reviews, 100% job success on Upwork. Those are the figures we can evidence and the only ones we quote.

2. 02

   Named proof, not a logo wall

   CyberFind, a B2B SaaS we built and still run, is a vendor review platform for security leaders four years in production without a rewrite, carrying 500+ verified CISOs and 2,000+ peer reviews. Plugin, a club management system with Stripe payments, took a tennis club from three tools to one and cut double-booked courts sharply. Bloomford, a hiring portal, was delivered module by module without downtime. Each is written up on this site with what went wrong as well as what went right.

3. 03

   Your morning is our commitment

   Four live hours every working day, 08:00 to 12:00 ET, with stand-ups, demos and decisions inside that window and a written handover before our evening ends. Nothing waits for a weekly status meeting.

4. 04

   We say exactly what we are

   No Georgia office, no Georgia staff, no United States entity and no implied presence anywhere on this site. The compliance and paperwork sections above exist because we would rather lose a deal at the scoping call than at the assessment.

5. 05

   We will tell you to hire in Georgia

   When a firm in Atlanta, Alpharetta or Savannah is honestly the better answer, you hear it on the first call. It costs us a project and saves you a year, and it is why a fair share of our work arrives by referral.

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