The technical partner you wish you already had.
Sawhorse exists for the business owner who has been trying to hold their operation together with five apps, a spreadsheet and a group chat — and who would rather have one system that fits.
Why we exist
Most small and mid-sized businesses face the same bad choice. Buy an oversized platform built for a company ten times your size, pay per seat forever, and spend months bending your process to fit it. Or hire an agency that builds you a beautiful brochure website and disappears.
Neither of those solves the actual problem, which is usually specific and unglamorous: leads arrive in four places, nobody knows which job is profitable, and the same information gets typed in three times a day.
Sawhorse builds the focused system that solves that. Then we either hand it to you, or we run it for you. That is the whole business.
Four positions we build from.
Software should fit the business
Every business has a way it actually works — usually shaped by years of hard-won practicality. Good software follows that shape. Bad software demands you change it to suit a product roadmap written by strangers.
Small should not mean second-rate
A three-person contractor deserves the same quality of tooling as a company with a software department. The difference should be scope, not craft.
You should be able to leave
On Own It plans you get the source code. On managed plans you can export your data. Lock-in is a business model, not a technical necessity, and it is not ours.
Say what is built and what isn’t
ERP and Agents are marked in development on this site because they are in development. We would rather lose a sale than ship a promise.
What people ask before they hire us.
How big is Sawhorse?
Small and early — which is exactly why this site leads with working demos instead of a customer logo wall it has not earned. You will talk to the person building your system.
Can I see real client work?
Not yet, honestly. Sawhorse is new and has no public client list, and putting up invented case studies would tell you nothing except that we are willing to invent things. The demos on this site are fictional businesses built to show the standard of the work, and this website is built the same way as what gets shipped — it is the portfolio.
What do you build with?
Modern, boring, well-supported technology: server-rendered web applications, relational databases, typed application code and managed cloud infrastructure.
Do you use AI to build?
Yes, as a tool, the same way a compiler or a test runner is a tool. It is one reason a small studio can deliver custom systems at these prices. Every line that ships is reviewed by a person who is accountable for it.
What don’t you do?
Ongoing marketing services, ad management, SEO retainers, and anything requiring a third party’s platform rules to be bent. If your problem is not a software problem, you will be told so.
Is the ERP or an AI agent available now?
No. Sawhorse Operations and the AI agents are planned, not built. Their pricing is published as planned pricing and may change before launch. Anything you can click through on this site today is a demonstration of the concept, not a product you can buy yet.
Every business, person, review and figure shown in the demos across this site is fictional and created for demonstration. Sawhorse does not publish invented customer counts, borrowed logos or testimonials nobody wrote. See the legal center for the terms behind everything we sell.
Build with Sawhorse
Tell us the problem. We’ll build the system.
Describe what you are trying to fix. You’ll get a scope, a fixed quote and a clear answer on whether Sawhorse is the right fit — no pitch deck.