I build the systems that leta business run without its owner
Scheduling, quoting, invoicing and follow-up — the work that currently lives in a group chat and your head. I'm JD Kemp, one senior engineer in the Lansing area, and I built this for my own business first.
Built for Service Businesses
Different trades, same three problems: getting work in, running it, getting paid. The software changes shape; the problems do not.
Real Estate
Agents & Brokers
Trades
HVAC, Plumbing, Electric
Home Services
Cleaning, Landscaping
Professional
Consulting, Finance
Real Estate
Agents & Brokers
Trades
HVAC, Plumbing, Electric
Home Services
Cleaning, Landscaping
Professional
Consulting, Finance
Real Estate
Agents & Brokers
Trades
HVAC, Plumbing, Electric
Home Services
Cleaning, Landscaping
Professional
Consulting, Finance
Healthcare
Clinics, Wellness
Legal
Law Firms, Attorneys
Automotive
Dealers, Auto Shops
Restaurants
Food & Hospitality
Healthcare
Clinics, Wellness
Legal
Law Firms, Attorneys
Automotive
Dealers, Auto Shops
Restaurants
Food & Hospitality
Healthcare
Clinics, Wellness
Legal
Law Firms, Attorneys
Automotive
Dealers, Auto Shops
Restaurants
Food & Hospitality
And many more industries I help run without their owners
Services That Drive Results
Four service areas. Start with the free Operations Audit — thirty minutes, no charge, and I will tell you when you do not need solutions that actually grow your business.
AI Reliability Audit
$2,500 flat. Your AI feature reviewed before it ships a wrong answer — eval harness, retrieval gates, a prioritised fix list. About a week.
LLM Integration Sprint
From $7,500. One production-ready AI feature built end to end on your stack, with the evaluation gates that keep it honest. Two to four weeks.
Ops-Automation Build
From $6,000. One manual workflow automated — intake to ticketing to invoicing, OCR, accounting sync. The build I did for my own business first.
Embedded Engineering
Monthly. I join your team for a stretch, learn your domain, and ship on your real systems. Forward-deployed — and the free Operations Audit is how it starts.
WhyWorkWithMeMarketingAgency
I build operations software for local service businesses, and I use it myself to deliver comprehensive solutions. From strategy to execution, I handle everything so you can focus on what you do best—serving your customers.
One senior engineer
Not a project manager and three juniors. The person you talk to is the person writing the code. Ask anyone else you are considering who is actually building it.
I did it to myself first
Haslett Handyman runs on a CRM I wrote — email in, tickets created, jobs scheduled, invoices out. I will show you the real system, not a slide about it.
Published pricing
Most builds land between $2,500 and $10,000. It is on the blog, in public, so you do not spend three calls finding out.
I will tell you to buy nothing
If your problem is a reminder and a template, you do not need a platform. Software should be the last resort, not the first. I have said this more than once.
Ready to Grow?
Let's Build Something Amazing Together
Whether you need a complete marketing overhaul or a custom application, I'll tell you what I'd fix and what I'd leave alone. Let's start with a conversation.
Also from JAK Labs — for developers
Hood Dev — software is a trade
A school that assesses how you actually work before it teaches you anything, then builds the track around what it found — applied to a real project of your own.
Every course tells you what to learn. This one looks under the hood first, names the specific thing holding you back, and cites the moment you proved it.
Free for 90 days from launch. Not for absolute beginners — it diagnoses developers, so there has to be something to diagnose.
The school lives at hood.jaklabs.io
- assessment
- The Teardown — 7 phases, ~40 min in-browser
- measures
- 9 leaks, each scored 0–100 with evidence cited
- curriculum
- 23 modules, ~188 hours, built per-Read
- price
- Free — 90 days from launch
Also from JAK Labs — for traders
Verdikt — the journal traders actually keep
Every trading book says keep a journal. Almost nobody does, because a journal is homework and homework loses to a live chart. So this one is built like Duolingo instead of like a spreadsheet.
Streaks, XP and leagues are the mechanism, not the decoration. What you end up with is a written record of your own decisions, with the reasoning attached, from before you knew how they turned out.
A record-keeping and educational tool. No signals, no alerts, no recommendations — it does not tell you what to buy.
Verdikt lives at verdikt.jaklabs.io
- import
- 12 broker connectors, read-only, keys AES-256-GCM
- gate
- No verdict on a setup under 30 closed trades
- method
- 10,000 bootstrap resamples, 95% confidence interval
- price
- Free to start