Managed engineering retainer
Ongoing engineering capacity for a business that doesn't need a full-time hire. Maintain what's running, build what's next, or take on a larger AI integration. Monthly engagement, sized to the workload.
Automaton Labs
Automaton Labs builds the software that lets your team stop doing the same thing twice — without hiring a full-time engineer.
Ongoing engineering capacity for a business that doesn't need a full-time hire. Maintain what's running, build what's next, or take on a larger AI integration. Monthly engagement, sized to the workload.
Fixed-scope engagements. Map the process, build the system, hand it off. Replaces the manual handoffs between tools and spreadsheets that quietly eat half a person's week.
The software your team uses every day, built around how you actually work — not how a SaaS vendor thinks you should.
Mid-market companies in Denver — typically 20 to 200 employees in professional services, logistics, or light manufacturing. The common pattern is a team that has outgrown spreadsheets and one-off contractors but isn't ready to hire a full engineering function.
The work spans the full stack: the customer-facing software, the internal tools your team lives in, the integrations between systems, and the infrastructure underneath. If you can describe the problem in business terms, I can build the system that solves it.
Most companies pay for far more capability than they use — especially the AI features baked into productivity suites like Microsoft 365. I build inside those tools, extending what you already own with custom automations and workflows that live where your team already works.
When the right answer is a new system, I build it cloud-native from day one — designed for low maintenance burden and the kind of differentiation a competitor can't replicate by buying another SaaS subscription.
You own the code, the data, and the infrastructure. No vendor lock-in.
I'm Jesse, founder of Automaton Labs. Eight years in production engineering — first as a founding engineer at a fintech startup, then as a senior engineer at the US-regulated financial-services firm that acquired it. Four years there building systems that had to be correct on the first try. Automaton Labs applies that same standard to the back-office software mid-market companies actually run on.
Email me the thing that should be a button but isn't — the manual handoff, the spreadsheet ritual, the report that takes half a day to assemble. First call is 30 minutes, no pitch deck.