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Systems design and software studio · Since 2002
We design the systems your organization runs on.
Custom software for schools, nonprofits, and the arts. Fixed price, set up by real people.
Most builds land between $15K and $60K.
Is your operations software
held together with duct tape and dreams?
Trusted by schools, nonprofits, and arts organizations.
Most organizations run on five tools that do not talk to each other.
And one very tired person who remembers how they fit together.
We are not a website company. We design the whole system: the tools your staff use inside and what your community sees outside, on one login, with your data in one place.
Pick a starting point. We shape it to fit.
Every build is fixed price. The prices are real.
The Volunteer Hub
$15K to $25KFamily and Member Portal
$25K to $45KIntake and Case Tracking
$30K to $60KThe Board Room
$15K to $25KFacility and Room Booking
$15K to $30KProgram and Camp Registration
$20K to $40K
The questions your board will ask. Straight answers.
- Can the price change?
- No. Discovery ($3,500 to $5,000) sets the scope and the price before you commit to the build. Anything new gets its own fixed quote before work starts. Nothing gets built or billed by surprise.
- What does it cost after launch?
- Sizzle Care keeps it running: hosting, backups, security updates, and a real person who answers. Plans start at $69 a month, billed monthly with no contract. See Sizzle Care
- What if you disappear?
- You own the code and the data. Your data exports any time, and that is in writing. You are never stuck asking us for your own records.
- What if it runs late?
- Most builds launch 8 to 12 weeks after Discovery. If we miss the date, we add bonuses to make up for it.
- What does our team put in?
- About 10 to 20 hours in total, shared across whoever on your staff needs to weigh in.
- Can’t fund it all this year?
- Split it across two budget years. Phase 1 fixes this fall’s mess. Phase 2 lands in next year’s budget.
Case studyGateway ITE · professional society for transportation engineers, St. Louis
Their duct tape was paperwork. Now it runs itself.
40%less admin overhead after launch, measured, not estimated
“The organization finally looks as good as it is.”Program Director, Gateway ITERead the full story
From: Bear at Sizzle
To: Gateway ITE staff
Everything ran. ✦ Launch week recap
Quick numbers from your first week live:
- Intake live across every program, day one
- 40% less admin overhead vs. the paper process
- Zero support calls needed in week one
We send this email after every launch.
The heart of the work
Built for the people who make the night happen.
Arts organizations, venues, and nonprofits: the load in, the sold out house, the grant report due Friday.
Built for venues, artists, and the nonprofits that keep a place going.
See our arts and nonprofit workNeed something running this week?
Ready made tools for schools. Free to start, set up with a real person.
One-tap conference booking for families, live dashboards for staff.
Coming next: EventTicketGo, FundDriveGo, FrontOfficeGo, CalendarGo. Join a waitlist
How a build works.
Discovery
We map how work really flows. You get a plain plan and a fixed price.
Design
You see the system before we build it.
Build
Working progress along the way. Most builds launch in 8 to 12 weeks.
Launch night
A real person watches the night it goes live.
AI training for school staff. A 10 day certification, $97, starting October 19, plus kits for principals and teachers. Get certified
Tell us what you are duct taping.
Spreadsheets, sticky notes, and “Dave's system” all count. We will tell you what a clean system would look like and what it would cost.