Custom software development in Texas.

• Texas agency

  Registered in the state, on Central time all day, able to put people in your office or on your site. You are buying proximity and a domestic contract. The right answer when stakeholders are many, the scope is still moving, or a customer or government contract requires the work to be done in the United States.

• Contract staffing

  Engineers billed hourly into a process you already run. Architecture, code review, QA and release stay with your own technical lead. The right answer when you have that lead and what you lack is hands.

• Remote engineering partner

  A named senior team that takes a written scope, owns architecture, testing and release, works your morning from outside the country, and hands over the repository at the end. No US entity, so the contract, the W-8BEN-E and the vendor questionnaire are handled at the start rather than discovered by accounts payable.

We are the third. When one of the first two is the better answer for your project, the scoping reply says so.

• A remote partner works when

  • ✓The process the software has to support can be written down, and one person on your side can sign the scope off.
  • ✓Three live hours between 08:00 and 11:00 Central are enough for decisions, and your team can work from written handovers for the rest of the day.
  • ✓The engagement is a defined build, a module over a system you keep, or a replacement for one you have outgrown, rather than open-ended discovery.
  • ✓You want the repository, the deployment pipeline and the documentation in your own accounts from the first sprint, so nothing about the system depends on us staying.
  • ✓Regulated data is in scope and your compliance lead or counsel will set the rules while we build the machinery that enforces them.

• Hire in Texas instead when

  • ✓A customer contract, a state or federal grant, or your own procurement rule requires a US-incorporated supplier or work performed in the United States.
  • ✓The work needs someone physically present: a yard cutover, a plant floor, a hospital go-live, hardware on a bench.
  • ✓Your stakeholders can only meet in the afternoon, which for us is the middle of the night, and the meeting cannot move.
  • ✓Your security policy forbids access to production data from outside the country and the build cannot be done against masked data.
  • ✓What you really want is staff augmentation under your own architect, which a contract firm will do with less overhead.

• 01

  The rows we lose are printed on purpose.

  A table where one column wins everything is an advertisement. Three rows above are reasons to hire somebody else, and they belong here rather than in month four of a contract that is hard to exit.

• 02

  Where the system runs and where it is written are different questions.

  Your platform can run in a US region of your own AWS account, under your own keys, while the engineers writing it sit in Gujarat. Most data-residency conversations end once that distinction is made.

• 03

  Contract engineers add capacity, not direction.

  If nobody on your side is holding architecture, review and release quality, more engineers produce code faster than they produce a working system. That is not a criticism of staffing firms; it is what they are for.

• 04

  A US-only clause is binary.

  If a customer flow-down, a grant condition or a public-sector procurement rule requires the work to be performed in the United States, we are not eligible. Ask on the first call and the answer comes back the same day.

• Operations

  Field-service, dispatch and asset platforms

  Work orders, crew scheduling, asset and equipment history, inspections, exceptions and reporting for energy, utility and service companies. Usually replacing a spreadsheet, a radio and one dispatcher who knows where everything is.

• Portals

  Customer, patient and vendor portals

  Self-service on top of the system you already own, with role-scoped access, document handling and a history of who did what, so the phone stops ringing for questions a portal can answer.

• SaaS

  SaaS products and first versions

  Multi-tenant applications with billing, plan limits, roles and an audit trail, for an Austin or Dallas founding team that needs paying customers, or for a company productising a tool it built for itself.

• Mobile

  Mobile apps for crews and drivers

  One Flutter codebase across iOS and Android, offline-first with conflict rules designed rather than hoped for, because the signal at a well pad or on a farm-to-market road is not the user’s problem to solve.

• Integrations

  APIs and integration engineering

  Connecting an ERP, a health record over HL7 FHIR, a telematics feed, a payment processor or a transportation management system, with queues, retries and a reconciliation view so a failed message is visible rather than silent.

• Cloud

  Cloud environments and delivery pipelines

  AWS accounts in your name in a US region, infrastructure as code, staged releases and monitoring, with the change history and access logs an internal auditor or a hospital security office will ask for.

1. Discovery and a written scope

   One call in the shared window to walk through how the operation runs, who touches each step and where it breaks, then a scope with the exclusions named and a price range attached. Nobody here estimates from a conversation, and the document is yours whether or not you hire us.

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

   48 hours

2. Prototype and architecture

   Clickable screens in the first week so your operations manager argues with something real, and alongside them the data model, access control, offline behaviour, hosting region and rollback path, agreed in writing before an editor is opened.

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

   1–2 weeks

3. Two-week releases

   Working software demoed live in your morning every fortnight, against your real records, and left running on a staging URL your team can open at any hour. Each release is checked against the scope in front of you.

   Working modules your dispatchers, clinicians or finance team have tried, and a backlog you shaped as you went.

   6–14 weeks, scope-dependent

4. Harden, then go live

   Permissions, load, backups, monitoring and a rehearsed rollback signed off before a Texas user touches it. Field rollouts go region by region or crew by crew rather than statewide on a Monday.

   A release your auditor or security office can accept, with the evidence attached rather than described.

   2–3 weeks

5. Run and extend

   Monitoring with alerts that reach us during our working day, a support window matched to Central time, and the next release chosen from what your users actually do.

   A system that keeps earning its place, and a team that can hand it to yours whenever you want.

   Monthly, 30 days notice

• Field to finance

  Replacing the spreadsheet and the radio

  Dispatch, work orders, inspections and invoicing held together by workbooks, a shared inbox and one person who knows the exceptions, rebuilt as a system with roles, approvals and a record of who did what, with a crew app that works offline. For energy, utility, service and distribution operators.

• Extension

  Building around the system you keep

  A portal, a set of modules, a reporting layer or an integration over an ERP, a health record or an accounting product, so you keep the system of record and lose the retyping around it. For companies extending rather than replacing a core system.

• First version

  A first product built to survive its first customers

  For an Austin or Dallas founding team: one platform, the core journey, and a codebase a future in-house team will not need to throw away. Clickable screens in week one, a live release every two weeks. For founders who need a first version, not a two-year platform.

• Compliance retrofit

  Bringing an existing system up to its obligations

  Consent and opt-out handling under the Texas privacy law, audit trails, access reviews and breach-scoping logs added to a platform that was built before anyone asked for them. A finding, a customer questionnaire or a deadline is usually what starts it. For teams facing an audit, a security review or a privacy deadline.

1. 01

   Energy and utilities

   Field-service and asset management, inspection and maintenance scheduling, crew dispatch, permit and compliance records, and the portals that let contractors and customers see their own jobs. Oilfield service companies in the Permian and Eagle Ford, midstream operators and utilities share one problem: a lot of equipment, a lot of crews and a signal that comes and goes. Offline-first is the starting assumption, not an add-on.

2. 02

   Healthcare along the Houston medical corridor

   Scheduling, intake, referral management, care coordination and patient-facing apps around an existing record system for hospitals, physician groups, specialty clinics and home-health agencies. Where protected health information is in scope we build to the HIPAA Security Rule safeguards and the Texas Medical Records Privacy Act, under rules your privacy officer sets rather than promises we make on a web page.

3. 03

   Logistics and distribution

   Carriers, brokers, warehouses and distributors working Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and the Laredo border crossing: load and appointment scheduling, yard and dock management, proof of delivery, customs document handling and inventory reconciled across sites. The hard part is keeping one load consistent across three systems that each think they own it.

4. 04

   Financial services

   Portals, operations tooling and reporting for lenders, insurers and financial firms in Dallas and Houston. Approval chains, maker-checker rules, segregation of duties and a complete audit trail shape the build, and card data stays out of your systems entirely by tokenising at the processor.

5. 05

   Aerospace and manufacturing

   Work orders, bills of materials, traceability, quality records, supplier portals and job costing for manufacturers and aerospace suppliers around Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio. Traceability that survives an audit depends on decisions made three steps upstream, so that is where we start.

6. 06

   SaaS in Austin

   Second products, partner portals, admin consoles, billing changes and the internal tooling a product company never finds time for. Tenancy, SSO, usage metering and the SOC 2 evidence enterprise customers ask for are the usual requirements, and they are designed in from the start rather than added after the first lost deal.

If your sector is not listed, the first question is the one we ask everyone: what does one day of this work look like, and where does it break?

1. 01

   The Texas Data Privacy and Security Act

   The Texas Data Privacy and Security Act took effect on 1 July 2024. Unlike most state privacy laws it sets no revenue or record-count threshold: it applies to a person that conducts business in Texas or produces products or services consumed by Texas residents, processes or sells personal data, and is not a small business as defined by the United States Small Business Administration. Even a small business needs consent before selling sensitive personal data. Residents get rights of access, correction, deletion and portability, and the right to opt out of targeted advertising, the sale of personal data and profiling with significant effects. Controllers must run data protection assessments for higher-risk processing, and since 1 January 2025 they must honour universal opt-out signals sent by a consumer’s browser or device. Enforcement sits exclusively with the Office of the Attorney General, which must give notice of a violation and a cure period before bringing an action. The signal requirement is engineering rather than policy: the opt-out has to reach your consent state, your analytics and every downstream tag, and keep working after the next deployment. Whether your business is in scope, and which exemptions apply, is a question for your counsel. What we build is the machinery: a data inventory, consent state, an opt-out signal handler, request workflows with a clock on them, deletion that reaches backups and exports, and retention rules a person can read. Sources: Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, Business and Commerce Code Chapter 541 (HB 4, 88th Legislature) · Office of the Attorney General of Texas.

   In force July 2024

2. 02

   HIPAA safeguards and the Texas Medical Records Privacy Act

   Where a system touches protected health information we build to the HIPAA Security Rule technical safeguards: unique user identification, automatic logoff, role-scoped access, encryption in transit and at rest, integrity controls, and an audit trail that records who read a record as well as who changed it. Texas goes further than HIPAA in the Medical Records Privacy Act, which defines a covered entity more broadly than the federal rule, requires training for employees who handle protected health information, and restricts electronic disclosure of that information without authorisation. We do not promise a business associate agreement on a web page. Whether one is required, whether the Texas definition reaches your organisation, and what the training and disclosure rules mean for your product are decided by your privacy officer and your counsel. We build to the safeguards and hand them the engineering evidence they need to sign the position off. Sources: HIPAA Security Rule, 45 CFR Part 164 Subpart C · US Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights · Texas Medical Records Privacy Act, Health and Safety Code Chapter 181 · Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the Office of the Attorney General.

   Health data

3. 03

   Breach notification under the Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act

   Texas requires a person who conducts business in the state and owns or licenses computerised sensitive personal information to notify affected individuals of a breach of system security as quickly as possible and no later than the sixtieth day after determining the breach occurred, and to notify the Attorney General within thirty days where the breach affects at least 250 Texas residents. The statute also requires reasonable procedures to protect sensitive personal information from unlawful use or disclosure. You cannot notify accurately unless the system can say which records were reached and by whom, so retained access logs, append-only audit trails, alerting on unusual access and a rehearsed procedure for reconstructing an incident are part of the build rather than a policy on a shelf. The decision to notify, its timing and its wording belong to your counsel and your incident response plan. Our part is making the facts available quickly and reliably. The day counts above are printed as we understand them today and should be re-verified against the current statute before you rely on them. Sources: Texas Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act, Business and Commerce Code Chapter 521, § 521.053 · Office of the Attorney General of Texas.

   Incident duty

4. 04

   PCI DSS scope, kept out of your code

   The cheapest way to handle card data is never to hold it. We tokenise at the processor, so the card number is captured by the processor’s own hosted field or SDK and your platform stores a token, the last four digits and a brand. Your application never sees, transmits or stores a primary account number, which keeps most of PCI DSS scope out of the code we write for you. Your PCI obligations remain yours, and the right self-assessment questionnaire depends on how you take payments. We build to keep the scope small and say plainly when a requested feature would widen it. Sources: PCI DSS v4.0.1 · PCI Security Standards Council.

   Payments

5. 05

   SOC 2 questionnaires and hospital security reviews

   A Texas health system, a utility or an enterprise SaaS customer will send a vendor security questionnaire before a contract is signed, and it will ask the same of us. We answer with what we operate rather than a brochure: 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. Where an answer is no, it is written as no with the compensating control beside it. Where your policy calls for an attestation report from the supplier rather than answers to a questionnaire, tell us on the first call. You will get our current position in plain terms, including any bar we cannot yet meet, before anyone spends time on a proposal. Sources: AICPA Trust Services Criteria for Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality and Privacy.

   Vendor risk

We build systems that produce this evidence natively rather than bolting a compliance module onto software that resists it. Where an audit finding, a customer review or a statutory deadline is driving your timeline, that date is where we plan backwards from.

1. 01

   The contract

   Your master services agreement, governed by Texas law, is the contract we sign, with the venue, liability, termination and data-protection terms your counsel wants in it. We never ask a client to contract under Indian law and we never run an engagement on an email thread.

   Governing law

2. 02

   Tax forms and invoices

   Because QalbIT is an Indian company with no US entity, your accounts payable team receives a completed Form W-8BEN-E before we raise anything. Invoicing is in US dollars, tied to the milestones or the monthly rate in the contract, and carries whatever purchase order reference your finance system requires.

   W-8BEN-E

3. 03

   Intellectual property

   Everything produced on the engagement, code, designs, documentation and the Terraform that defines your environments, is assigned to you as it is written rather than when the last invoice clears. Repositories, cloud accounts and domains are created in your name before the first commit, and each engineer on the account is bound by the same assignment and confidentiality terms.

   Assignment

4. 04

   Confidentiality

   Before you share anything sensitive an NDA is signed, on your template or ours, and it is mutual unless you prefer otherwise. We do not name you, your product or your project as a reference without written permission.

   NDA

5. 05

   Security questionnaires and insurance

   Questionnaires are answered by the engineers who would work on your account, describing what we actually operate rather than what a sales team hopes we do. Certificates of insurance are available on request.

   Vendor risk

6. 06

   Background checks

   If your policy requires background checks on the named engineers, we arrange them and feed the results into your process. Ask for them at contract stage, because they add lead time before the first sprint can begin.

   On request

7. 07

   No Texas presence, and what that rules out

   QalbIT has no United States entity, no Texas office and nobody who can be at your yard, plant or hospital on Tuesday. Where a procurement rule, a grant condition or a customer flow-down requires a domestic supplier or work performed in the United States, we are not eligible, and you will hear that on the first call rather than after a proposal.

   The limit

Nothing above should put a Texas company off a remote partner. It should put you off any remote partner who has not answered these questions before sending an estimate, which is why ours are printed here.

• Backend and business rules

  • ✓Laravel (PHP 8) for business systems with approval chains and audit trails.
  • ✓Node.js and NestJS in TypeScript where integrations and event flows dominate.
  • ✓Queues, schedulers and retries for syncs, alerts and report generation.

• Interface and field apps

  • ✓Next.js and React, server-rendered where search and sharing matter.
  • ✓Keyboard-first dispatch and operations boards people keep open all day.
  • ✓Flutter for one crew app across iOS and Android, offline-first with conflict rules.

• Data and integrations

  • ✓PostgreSQL and MySQL with constraints that protect financial and asset integrity.
  • ✓Append-only audit trails and versioned records where evidence is required.
  • ✓REST, GraphQL and HL7 FHIR integrations with ERPs, health records, telematics and processors.

• Security and delivery

  • ✓AWS in a US region under your account, defined in Terraform rather than by hand.
  • ✓Least-privilege access, logged, with break-glass reviewed after use.
  • ✓Staged releases through GitHub Actions, every one reversible.

• A note on sourcing

  A note on sourcing

  There are no market statistics on this page: nothing about Texas engineering salaries, nothing about what agencies in Dallas or Houston charge, and none of the project-failure percentages that get repeated without a primary source. Every number printed here is ours or a client’s, with its source named beside it. Ask for the evidence behind any of them and you will get it, or the claim comes down.

1. 01

   Delivering software since 2018

   Since 2018 we have delivered 120+ engagements for 50+ clients across web, mobile and operational platforms. The public record is a Clutch rating of 5.0 from 8 reviews, a Google rating of 4.9 from 18 reviews and 100% job success on Upwork, and those are the only company figures you will find on this page.

2. 02

   Three live hours on Central time, held

   08:00 to 11:00 CT every working day, which is 18:30 to 21:30 IST in summer and an hour later in winter. Calls, demos and decisions happen inside that window, and a written handover lands before our day closes so nothing waits for a status meeting.

3. 03

   We say what we are

   There is no Texas office, no Texas payroll and no United States entity behind this page, and nothing on the site pretends otherwise. The regulation and paperwork sections above are there so your security review finds nothing we did not tell you first.

4. 04

   Named engineers, no substitutions

   The engineers named in the proposal are the engineers on the build, start to finish. We do not subcontract, we do not swap people onto another client mid-sprint, and the founder answers his own email.

5. 05

   We will point you to a Texas firm when that is right

   When a firm in Dallas, Houston or Austin is genuinely 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 as referrals.

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