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Custom software for owner-run businesses

Stop running your business on six apps and a spreadsheet.

We build one system around how your team already works. Less double entry, fewer dropped balls, no more admin at 10pm. Fixed price, and you own it.

No pitch deck and no obligation. You'll talk to the person who would build it.

Example: a home-services owner's whole day, on one screen.
“We have used Levotate for three years. All of it culminated in the most profitable year we have had.”

Mike Meysenburg Owner, Great Plains Tree Care

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One system, built around how you work

Not a template you bend your process to. Here's what that looks like in a few kinds of business.

Replaces a scheduling app, a CRM, two spreadsheets and the group text.

  • Schedule crews and see where everyone is
  • Quote on site and turn it into a job in one tap
  • Send the invoice the moment the job is done
  • Every customer's history in one place
Price out your current setup

What is your current setup costing you?

Subscriptions are the part you can see. The hours your team spends re-typing and chasing things down often cost more.

What do you pay for now?
People who use them
8
Everyone with a login
Hours lost each week
10
Re-typing, chasing, fixing
Estimate

Your current setup, per year

  • CRM × 8$3,840
  • Scheduling and dispatch$3,600
  • Forms and intake$480
  • Automations$900
  • Texting and email$1,200
Software$10,020
Lost time, 10 hrs a week at $35/hr$18,200
Total a year$28,220
Over five years$141,100

Rough estimate based on typical mid-tier plans.

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Two free steps before you spend a dollar

You'll know what you're getting and what it costs before anything is built.

  1. A 15-minute call

    Free

    Tell us what's eating your time. We'll tell you straight whether custom software makes sense.

  2. Discovery

    Free

    We map how work really moves through your business and add up what you pay now. You get a written plan and a fixed price, with no obligation.

  3. The build

    4 to 8 weeks

    You see working software every week, not a big reveal at the end.

  4. Launch

    You own it

    We help move your data over, train your team and keep it running. The code is yours.

No surprises

  • Fixed price, in writing

    Agreed before we start. No hourly billing and no change orders.

  • You own it

    Your code and your data. If you ever leave, they go with you.

  • Progress every week

    Working software you can click, not status reports.

  • Straight answers

    If it won't pay for itself, we'll say so and tell you what to buy instead.

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Who you'll work with

Two people, on purpose. The people on your first call are the people who design it, build it and pick up the phone after launch.

Alex Olson at Maroon Lake, below the Maroon Bells in Colorado

Alex Olson

  • Founder
  • CEO
  • Developer

Build beats buy. I proved it on my own software bill first.

Alex has spent 14 years building for the web, mostly for owner-run businesses. He grew Levotate to more than 150 client sites, and built and sold a 34-client management business along the way.

Then he turned the same eye on his own companies. He added up what they paid for software, built the tools himself, and cut more than $20,000 a year in subscriptions. That's the work Levotate does now, and he's still the one doing it: on your first call, writing your code, and picking up when something needs to change.

He works out of Castle Rock, Colorado. Off the clock, he's usually somewhere above 9,000 feet.

years building for the web
14+
sites built and managed
150+
software products he built and runs
5
a year cut from his own software bill
$20.9k

Software he builds and runs himself

  • Rendr.it Prerendering for React sites, serving production traffic
  • Bonsai Mail Cold email platform with Microsoft 365 and Google sign-in
  • OleyBot Licensed desktop app with Stripe billing
  • Levotate CRM The CRM and ticketing system this business runs on
Mark Placek and his dog on a granite ledge above a Colorado valley at sunset

Mark Placek

  • Partner
  • AI Implementation Strategist

Build it so it works every time, not just in the demo.

Mark is the person at Levotate who turns “we should use AI for that” into something that actually runs. He designs the automated workflows behind our clients’ content: research pipelines, writing and editing systems, and AI image and video production that hold up to real deadlines and real brand standards.

His background is in enterprise IT. As an identity engineer at Interpublic Group, he spent his days automating systems at scale with PowerShell, Microsoft Exchange, and NetIQ Identity Manager, where a mistake isn’t a typo, it’s a locked-out office. That’s the mindset he brings to AI: build it so it works every time, not just in the demo. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and is a Certified Scrum Master, so projects ship on a plan, not a vibe.

Based in Fort Collins, Mark spends his time away from the keyboard hiking, riding, and fishing, all of which are conveniently close to home.

Identity engineer at Interpublic Group
IPG
Computer Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha
B.S.
Certified Scrum Master
CSM

What he builds for clients

  • Research pipelines Source gathering and research that run on their own
  • Writing and editing systems Drafts and edits held to a brand's standards
  • AI image and video Production that keeps up with real deadlines

Questions owners ask first

Something else on your mind? Call or text 720-604-0280.

It depends on what we're replacing. Every build is a fixed price, quoted after the free discovery and measured against what your current setup costs you. If it won't pay for itself within about 18 months, we'll tell you not to build it.

Most builds take four to eight weeks once discovery is done. You'll see working pieces every week, so nothing is a surprise on launch day.

No catch. It's how we find out whether a build makes sense for you, and how you find out whether you want to work with us. If the numbers don't add up, you'll hear that from us.

It's built around how they already work, so there's less to learn. We train everyone before launch and adjust it in the first few weeks based on what they tell us.

Usually, yes. We connect to the tools worth keeping, like QuickBooks, Stripe and Google Workspace, and replace the ones that aren't.

We host it, monitor it and fix it. A monthly support plan covers changes as your business grows.

You keep everything: the software, the source code and your data. We'll hand over hosting or move it wherever you want.

Tell us what's driving you crazy.

Fifteen minutes, no pitch deck. You'll know whether custom software makes sense for your business, and what it would replace.

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