About Us
Caxy is a Chicago-based custom software consultancy. We've built and shipped production systems for mid-market companies since 1999 — through three economic cycles, four programming-language paradigm shifts, and the AI revolution. 25 years. 100+ production platforms. Same leadership the whole time. AWS Advanced Partner. Senior US engineers. No offshore handoffs.
Specifics over narratives. Here's what our clients can point to.
Anyone can claim digital transformation. Caxy's clients can point to specific outcomes: Porter Pipe & Supply reduced annual operational costs by $2.4M through ERP integration and B2B commerce automation. Wind Creek Hospitality's platform scaled to handle 87X traffic growth with zero downtime. Chicago Public Media's custom donation platform lifted digital contributions 250%. tastytrade's trading infrastructure processes millions of transactions daily. Best Money Moves runs a financial wellness SaaS architecture serving enterprise HR teams. These aren't pitches. They're production systems that have been running for years.
We sell finished software. Not pitches, demos, or prototypes.
Most firms compete on hourly rate or offshore arbitrage. Caxy competes on shipping things that work in production. The 92% industry failure rate isn't because developers can't code — it's because most firms skip the engineering work that separates a demo from a system your business can run on. We do that work. The same senior team that pitches your project builds it and supports it three years later. Code is documented and engineered to be hireable, so your team can extend it without us. We don't disappear after launch. Three of Caxy's longest client relationships are 8+ years old. We're the consultancy that gets called back, not the one that gets replaced.
Three ways to start. Pick the one that matches your situation.
1. 30-minute discovery call. You describe the problem. We tell you honestly whether we're the right fit. No deck, no pitch. If we're not a fit, we'll point you somewhere better.
2. $50K Game Changer Assessment. Our team maps your technology landscape and delivers a prioritized roadmap with dollar figures on every finding. Most clients use this to make their next CIO/CTO hire smarter.
3. Scoping sprint. We define the architecture, estimate the cost, and start writing code within two weeks. Every engagement runs in 2-week sprints with a working demo at the end of each. You see progress every two weeks — not a big reveal at the end.
We work best with mid-market companies serious about technology as a competitive lever.
Caxy's sweet spot is companies in the $20M–$500M revenue range — large enough that technology is a real line item, small enough that decisions don't take six months. We work across gaming, fintech, manufacturing, hospitality, B2B commerce, healthcare, and SaaS. What our clients share isn't an industry — it's a posture. They treat technology as a system to invest in, not a vendor to manage. They want senior engineers who push back, not contractors who type. They measure success by what the software does for the business, not by hours billed. If that's you, we should talk.
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We've been doing this since 1999. That's not a brag — it's a filter.
Three economic recessions. Four major shifts in how software gets built (PHP/MySQL → Ruby on Rails → modern JS/cloud-native → AI-augmented). Two cycles of "the agency model is dead." We've outlasted every wave by holding two things constant: senior US engineers on every project, and a partnership model where we treat your software like it's our own. Many of the people who started Caxy still work here. Many of the clients we shipped with in 2008 still call us. That continuity is hard to fake. It's also why we ship software that lasts.
The average custom software platform lasts 3-5 years before it needs to be replaced. Ours last 10+. That is not an accident - it is the result of choosing boring, proven technologies over trendy frameworks, investing in automated testing from day one, and designing architectures that scale without rewrites. When your competitors are on their third rebuild, your Caxy platform is still running, still scaling, and still delivering ROI.
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