Seagull is a small software shop.

Most software isn't built for the people using it. It's built to collect their data, hold their attention, and make leaving harder than staying. Privacy is one part of that, but the bigger part is simpler. You are not who the thing was made for.

The rest gets built for millions at once, which means it fits nobody in particular. One person who wants their own email app, or a small operation running on a spreadsheet someone made years ago, neither was worth building for. So they work around tools that almost fit. Most were never told that having something of their own was even an option.

That's what this shop is for. It builds software for one person or one shop, on purpose. It puts out its own apps, which you can see on the shelf below. And it helps teams sort out how they actually work, because software can't solve a problem you haven't solved outside software first.

Say what you're trying to do and what's getting in the way, we'll work out together whether Seagull can help.

Commissioned Work

Seagull builds what you need, for you and nobody else.

A physical therapy practice was drowning in eighty handwritten intake forms a month, retyping each one by hand. A neighborhood association kept fielding the same question about their weekend pop-up beer gardens: which ones are close enough to do in one afternoon?

Neither is a product anybody would build. Too specific, and that's the point. Come tell Seagull what you wish you had. We'll ask plenty of questions about how your days actually go, and then build it.

See how commissioned work works.

The Shelf

Not everything gets built because someone asked for it.

Some things should exist and nobody's going to build them. There's no money in helping you leave a service, or in getting two companies to talk when neither wants to. So Seagull builds those.

And some things exist already but were built on an assumption nobody ever questioned. Look at the assumption differently and you get a different app entirely, one that behaves like your life does rather than like a filing cabinet. Those get built too.

Everything on the shelf is one of those two arguments, made in working form rather than in writing.

See what's on the shelf.

Better Workflow, a Clearer Picture

Software is the second half of the job. The first half is the work itself.

Most places run on something nobody designed. A process that grew one exception at a time, a spreadsheet that became load-bearing, a handoff that only works because one person remembers how. It holds, mostly. Then something changes and everyone finds out where the seams were.

Seagull comes in and looks at how the work actually moves, not how the chart says it does. Some of it gets simplified, some gets handed to software, and some just needs the people doing it to agree on one way. Then you get to see it: reporting that answers the question you were really asking, numbers you can act on rather than admire.

None of it depends on being big. A practice with four people has an operation, and it can run better.

See how this works.