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Custom CRM development
Pipelines, contacts and follow-ups modeled on how you sell. No per-seat fees, no features you will never use.
REPLACES → off-the-shelf CRM seats
Custom software for small business
Own the system.
Stop renting software that runs your business.
$5,000/mo
Average saved per client
$60,000
Back in your pocket, every year
Your stack today
example
- CRM seats$400
- Scheduling tool$60
- Email outreach$200
- Automation glue$100
- Forms & intake$50
- Reporting add-on$100
6 logins · 0 talk to each other
$910/mo
Your system · deployed
One platform. One login.
Built for you.
Built for you.
LEADS
CRM
OPS
Automations
GROWTH
Outreach
- Custom CRMs
- Workflow automation
- Cold outreach infrastructure
- Client portals
- Internal dashboards
- Quoting & invoicing
- AI agents
- API integrations
The results
Two things leave your business every month. Money and time. We get both back.
Bloated subscriptions, duplicate data entry and leads that slip through the cracks add up. Our clients save an average of $5,000 a month in software and admin time, and that's before counting the jobs you stop losing to missed follow-ups.
Monthly cost of operations
−$5k/mo avg
Illustrative. Based on our average client savings.
Your work week
20+ hrs/wk back
Manual admin & data entry
Time back for selling & serving
Admin time saved at a custom home builder client.
Anything you can describe
If your business runs on it, we can build it.
CRMs, client portals, quoting tools, AI agents, outreach engines, internal dashboards. We build modern full-stack software with AI-accelerated engineering, then deploy it and keep it running.
- Full-stack apps
- APIs & integrations
- AI workflows
- Hosting & support
What we build
Software shaped to your business.
Not the other way around.
We design, build and deploy custom business software for small businesses: custom CRMs, automation software, cold outreach infrastructure, and whatever else your operation needs. One system, built around how you actually work.
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Workflow automation
Kill the copy-paste. Intake, scheduling, invoicing and reminders run themselves between every tool you keep.
REPLACES → hours of manual admin
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Cold outreach infrastructure
Domains, inboxes, warm-up, sequencing and lead lists wired into one engine that fills your calendar.
REPLACES → stacked outreach tools
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Client portals & internal tools
Give customers one place to see projects, approve quotes, pay invoices and upload files.
REPLACES → email chains & lost files
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API & software integration services
Connect QuickBooks, Stripe, your CRM and the rest of your tools, then see every number live on one dashboard.
REPLACES → manual reports
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Custom AI agents
Lead qualifiers, quote generators, support assistants. If you can describe the workflow, we can build and deploy it.
REPLACES → the work nobody has time for
Automation, in motion
Watch one lead run through the system.
No copy-paste, no sticky notes, nobody has to remember. Every step below happens on its own.
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New lead
A website form comes in after hours
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Instant reply
Text and email go out automatically
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CRM record
Lead logged, scored and assigned an owner
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Quote sent
Built from your own price book
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Signed & invoiced
Deposit collected, job on the schedule
Industries
Custom CRMs built for the way your industry works.
The inefficiency calculator
What is your current setup really costing you?
Move the sliders. Software you pay for plus hours your team loses to manual work: that is the number a custom system goes after.
How it works
From messy stack to one clean system.
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Audit
We map every tool, subscription and manual step, and put a dollar figure on the waste.
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Design
You get a clear blueprint of the system: what it replaces, what it automates, what it costs.
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Build & deploy
We engineer the full stack, migrate your data and launch it into your daily operation.
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Support & evolve
We host, maintain and keep improving it as your business grows.
Why Black Atlas
Software you own, not software you rent.
Monthly software cost as you hire
Illustrative
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Built for how you work
Your stages, fields and handoffs. No bending your process around someone else's product.
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No per-seat tax
Hire your tenth employee without your software bill going up with them.
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One team, start to finish
Strategy, design, build, launch and support. No hand-offs between five vendors.
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A decade inside small businesses
Built by the team behind Like Media, with 10+ years in small business sales and marketing.
Year one
$5,000 a month adds up fast.
Move the sliders to see when a custom system pays for itself, and what you keep after that. Our client builds have run $14,000 to $35,000.
Kept in year one, after the build
$35,000
Paid for itself in month 5
Payback planner
Paid off · month 5
Hover or tap a month to see where you stand.
100% U.S. based team
Real engineers. Modern AI tooling. Software that ships.
Case study
A national commercial kitchen cleaning company built a system that follows up with every prospect, and retired HubSpot, PandaDoc, Utilize Core and a $20,000 automation build that never worked. It paid for itself in under seven months.
Commercial kitchen cleaning
$2,170+/mo saved
Questions
Custom software, without the headache.
How is this different from hiring a dev shop?
Traditional agencies quote months and six figures. We use AI-accelerated development on top of a proven stack, so we ship custom web applications in weeks for a fraction of the cost, and the same team supports it after launch.
How much does it cost?
It depends on scope. Recent client builds have run from about $14,000 to $35,000, and one paid for itself in under seven months on subscription savings alone. Your free audit includes a ballpark.
How long does it take?
Most projects launch in [X–Y] weeks, depending on how many tools we're replacing and how much data we're migrating.
Do I own the software?
[Confirm ownership terms, e.g. "Yes. The code and your data are yours."]
What if I want to keep some of my current tools?
Great. We integrate with what works and replace what doesn't.
What happens to my existing data?
We migrate it. Contacts, deals, jobs, documents and history all come with you.
I'm not technical. Is that a problem?
No, that's who we build for. You tell us how your business runs. We handle the rest.
Free software audit
Find your $5k.
Walk us through your tools and workflows. We will show you where the money and hours are leaking, and what a custom system would replace.