Designbyklein started in 2006. Since then we've built the applications, customer and dealer portals, integrations and automated workflows that run day-to-day operations for manufacturers, distributors, ecommerce businesses and service companies. The person who scopes your project is the person who builds it.
Designbyklein started in 2006, building websites and fixing computers. 20 years later the work looks different, but the pattern is the same: a business describes something that isn't working, and we build the thing that fixes it.
Most of what we do now is custom business software — the applications, portals, integrations and automated workflows that run day-to-day operations. Along the way we've built ecommerce and dealer platforms, membership systems, returns workflows, firmware for physical products, and the infrastructure all of it runs on.
That range is deliberate. It means we can take on the projects that don't fit neatly into one box: the ones with dealer pricing rules, fifteen years of order history that has to survive the migration, or a piece of hardware on the other end of the app.
You shouldn't have to work out which software to buy. Show us how your business actually runs, what's slowing it down, and what you wish worked differently — we'll tell you whether the answer is a custom application, an automation, an integration between things you already own, or nothing at all. We'd rather turn down work than sell you something that won't help.
We're a small team, which means the person who scopes your project is the person who builds it. There's no account manager relaying messages to a developer you never meet.
Four core offers, all aimed at the same thing: software shaped around the way a business already works.
Internal tools, customer and dealer portals, quoting, scheduling, memberships, inventory and reporting — built around your process rather than someone else's.
Connecting AI to your own data, documents and workflows so it does real work — searching, reading, summarizing and acting — rather than chatting.
For businesses whose selling has outgrown a standard store: dealer pricing, configurable products, trade accounts and order logic that plugins can't handle.
Connecting the tools you already pay for, so nobody re-types data, chases approvals by email, or rebuilds the same report every week.
Not what we lead with, but part of why the core work holds together: we run the infrastructure our applications live on, and occasionally build the hardware too.
Every one of these started as a business problem someone described to us, not a technology someone asked for.
Replaced a legacy store with a single platform that runs retail orders, dealer-specific pricing, custom products, returns and day-to-day operations without losing 15 years of order history.
Put scheduling, membership plans, pricing rules, payments and required paperwork into one system, so staff stopped stitching together calendars, spreadsheets and paper forms.
Turned a manual, email-driven return process into a tracked workflow with customer-submitted photos, status updates, shipping labels and paperwork generated automatically.
Gave dealers their own logins, their own negotiated pricing and a way to place orders directly, including programmatic ordering for the larger accounts, instead of phoning them in.
The projects we do best still start the same way they did in 2006: someone describes a process that takes too long. Tell us yours.