Technology Consulting, Custom Software & Automation for Auburn Hills Small Businesses
Auburn Hills, MI · Oakland County
Oakland County’s corporate & automotive-tech corridor.
IT strategy consulting, custom software and automation for the smaller firms beside Auburn Hills’ giants. Advisory and builds, not help-desk support.
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One recovered engagement covers it.
The opportunity in Auburn Hills
- Residents
- 25K
- Median household income
- $84K
- Households
- 12K
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau ACS, via Census Reporter (2024 5-year)
What the alternatives cost
A management consultancy
$15,000+ per engagement
You get a strategy and a deck. Worth it when the direction is genuinely unclear, but nobody builds the thing at the end.
Hiring an internal technology lead
$120,000+ per year
The right answer eventually. Below roughly fifty people it is a large fixed cost for a genuinely part-time role, and the search alone takes months.
Enterprise software licences
$20,000+ per year and up
Built for the anchors, not for you. Powerful, and you will use maybe a fifth of it while paying to configure the rest.
Fractional leadership plus build
$1,500 to $5,000 / mo; builds fixed-price from $3,000
Senior direction month to month and the systems actually get built. You can stop when the problem is solved.
The systems thatget you paid.
Auburn Hills runs on engineering and automotive technology, so the firms here usually need working internal systems long before they need another brochure page — these two are where that work starts.
Custom Business Software
One place to run your business, built around how you work.
- Real-time operational visibility
- Centralized knowledge and SOPs
- Reduced errors from manual tracking
Custom App Build
Turn your idea into a working product — at a fixed price.
- Working full-stack product delivered
- Clear scope before build begins
- 50% upfront · 50% on delivery
More ways we help engineering and automotive-tech firms.
What Auburn Hills firms ask us.
Do you do IT support or managed IT services?
No. We are not a help desk and do not manage networks, servers or cybersecurity. We decide what software you need, design the systems and build them. If you need someone on call when a machine goes down, a local MSP is the right call, and we work alongside them.
We are held to our customers’ data requirements. Does that change what you build?
It shapes the design from the start. Records stay in the systems you already run, access is scoped per person, credentials never sit in the browser, and anything customer-facing is built assuming an audit. We sign an NDA before seeing anything sensitive.
How does this compare to hiring someone internally?
Under about fifty people, a full-time technology lead is a six-figure cost for a part-time role. A retainer gives you the senior judgement without the headcount, and when you outgrow it we will tell you it is time to hire.
Can you build something we can test before committing?
That is what our prototype work is for. A working version of the idea, in weeks rather than quarters, so the decision to build properly is made against something real instead of a document.
Systems that keep up with the work? Start with a free proposal.
Fifteen minutes from Clarkston. Bring the messy version of the problem to the first conversation, that is the useful one.