FOUNDER-LED WORKFLOW SOFTWARE STUDIO · NYC

See your workflow working
before you commit.

Before you buy another platform or sign a long consulting engagement, YOUNYC takes one costly operational handoff and builds it as software you can open and use. Then you decide what it should become — a focused prototype, a one-time build, or a system your team keeps running.

Book 30 minutesOpen a working example

Sometimes the answer is automation. Sometimes it's connecting what you already pay for. Sometimes it's that nothing bigger should be built.

Start where you are

One messy process, turned into working software.

Three moments a business reaches for YOUNYC. They're one coherent job: turning operational ambiguity into something that works.

01Before you buy
You're about to buy another platform
Map the workflow and build the smallest working version first. Sometimes it shows you don't need the platform.
02Between systems
Your tools don't talk to each other
Connect the inboxes, spreadsheets, and SaaS you already pay for into one controlled workflow.
03Beyond off-the-shelf
Nothing off the shelf fits
A one-time internal tool or operational system, built to spec, owned by you.
15yr
Engineering at scale
In complex systems where small failures cascade fast
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Products I built and run
Live and shipped across proptech, HR tech, and civic data
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Prototypes for NYC agencies
Working software built for DDC, DEP, DOB & HPD workflows
NYC
Rooted where I live
I know local problems cold — and build for clients anywhere
A working example · not a client deployment

This is what an operational workflow looks like when it works.

This example happens to use building maintenance. The reusable pattern is intake → classify → verify → approve → route → hand off. Your workflow probably has different nouns and the same shape.

Interactive example · representative data
Property Operations Console

Turn tenant maintenance messages into classified, routed, approval-ready work with resident context, source checks, and vendor handoff.

Play the workflowTry the ticket classifier
The work · shipped, not slideware

Real businesses. Real software. Honestly labeled.

Every card is a shipped product, a client deployment, or a working prototype — each labeled for what it actually is, with a plain line on what it proves.

Products I own and operate
ContractorHubNYC — live site
01Live · paying users
Owned product · live, paying users
ContractorHubNYC
NYC permit data, refined into a personalized opportunity feed. Contractors stop scrolling DOB portals and start winning bids.
ProvesI can turn 14 fragmented public datasets into one product surface people pay to use daily.
React · Node.js · PostgreSQLView live
ProofClock — live site
02Live · in pilot at UmmahAcademy
Owned product · live pilot
ProofClock
Kill the password and the punch card. Staff clock in with a face or fingerprint and a single QR scan.
ProvesI can ship security-critical infrastructure — WebAuthn, multi-tenant, device recovery — that non-technical staff use daily without support.
Flask · PostgreSQL · WebAuthnView live
DataPulse — live site
03Shipped · Telegram mini-app · datapulse.fyi
Owned product · shipped
DataPulse
Ask any open public dataset a question in plain English. Inspect the answer. Save the question as an alert that re-runs every time the source data refreshes.
ProvesI can make an AI answer inspectable: every result carries its query, assumptions, and confidence.
Telegram Mini-App · LLM · SoQLView live
Client work
05Live
Client deployment · live
UmmahAcademy
Started as a client website. Today the academy runs its daily attendance on ProofClock — client work that became real software.
ProvesClient work can become operating software the client actually runs.
HTML · CMS · ProofClock pilot
06Delivered
Client build · delivered
Grand Affairs
Interactive proposal experience for an NYC event venue — scoped, signed, and tracked end-to-end without a single PDF email chain.
ProvesI can replace a document-and-email process with a tracked workflow a non-technical team runs itself.
Static · e-sign · Telegram alerts
Vertical experiment
04Interactive example · representative data
Vertical experiment · interactive example
Property Operations Console
Turn tenant maintenance messages into classified, routed, approval-ready work with resident context, source checks, and vendor handoff.
ProvesI can model intake, classification, source checks, approval, routing, and vendor handoff as one inspectable workflow.
React · NYC Open Data · workflow automationPlay the workflow
Working prototypes for NYC agencies
NYC DDCCapital Project Risk ChatbotLocation-aware risk detection for construction corridors. Every answer shows its datasets, generated query, assumptions, and confidence.Working link NYC DDCVendor Integrity CheckAI Responsibility-Determination reports that aggregate integrity findings from many sources into one cited document.Working link NYC DEPLead Service Line DashboardRegulator-ready LCRI compliance tracking over the city service-line inventory, with exportable EPA reporting.Working link NYC DOBElevator Parts Sourcing ConsoleParts sourcing and strategic stockpile console to speed elevator repairs in single-elevator buildings.Working link NYC HPDAffordability Commitment TrackerOCR + NLP over scanned ACRIS regulatory agreements — alerts before affordability terms quietly expire.Working link

These are working prototypes built against real NYC agency workflows and open data — proof of how I approach an unproven problem, not client engagements. Your business doesn't need a procurement process — just 30 minutes.

How it works · same shape, every project

Map → Preview → Decide → Build.

A working preview comes before the invoice. Transparent, collaborative, designed for non-technical owners — you see something real before you decide anything.

01
Map
Free 30 minutes. You describe the handoff that costs you the most. You leave with a straight read on whether software helps — including when it doesn't.
02
Preview
If it's a fit, I build the smallest inspectable version: one workflow, representative or public data, no production integration, bounded turnaround.
03
Decide
Keep going, change direction, or stop with a clearer answer. No invoice to find out if I'm right.
04
Build
Fixed scope, a direct line to the person writing the code, a V1 you own. Then it runs on the same rails as my own products.
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Fifteen years solving hard problems at scale — in complex telecom environments where a small failure cascades fast. You learn to get ahead of trouble or you drown. I point that same instinct at your business: software that cuts the busywork and brings in revenue you're leaving on the table. Modern tools, AI among them, do the heavy lifting so I can move fast, keep it affordable, and let you see something real before you've paid a cent.

One door. No funnel.

Tell me the workflow.
I'll show you it working.

Free 30 minutes — and if it's a fit, a working preview before any invoice.

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