We build the software your team wishes existed — in weeks, not quarters.
Custom tools, data pipelines, and AI integrations built around the way your team actually works — whatever your industry. Proven by products we run ourselves.
Who we help
One playbook for any industry: find the workflow that hurts, ship the pipeline that fixes it. Here's where that lands most often — and where we've gone deepest.
Ways to work with us
Named, scoped, priced — most clients start with the Audit.
AI Readiness Audit
A workflow deep-dive that maps your best automation opportunities, with ROI estimates and build/buy recommendations. The low-risk front door.
Automation Sprint
We take your #1 opportunity and ship one working automation or integration — Claude API, MCP server, report generation, data pipeline — into production.
Custom Tool Build
The core offer: a purpose-built internal tool or field app, delivered in scoped milestones with weekly demos you can actually click.
Embedded Product Partner
ChromaWave as your fractional product-engineering team — roadmap, builds, maintenance, and AI adoption on an ongoing retainer.
Live Products / Proof of Work
We don't just consult — we ship
GoodPAW and EstiMate are our own products, live in production and used by professionals every day. This is the same team you'd be hiring.
GoodPAW
Field Engineering Toolkit
The field toolkit used by 100+ professionals. Real-time measurement logging, floor plan mapping, on-device diagnostics, and automated PDF reporting.
100+
Users
Android
Platform
Free
Price
EstiMate
The Notion of Estimation
An agnostic estimation tool built for contractors, general contractors, subcontractors, and service providers.
Free
Price
Web App
Platform
All
Trades
Also from the lab
Sweep Testing Analyzer — batch analysis and reporting for raw instrument test files.
Featured case study
One real engagement, real numbers — the kind of work we do every day.
Intelligent Quoting & Estimation Platform
Streamlined cost estimation through automation and modular inputs
40%
Reduction in quote preparation time
95%
Decrease in component errors
100%
Standardized proposals
28%
Increase in proposal acceptance
“The quoting platform ChromaWave developed has completely transformed our estimation process. Our engineers can now focus on designing solutions rather than searching for components. The standardized quotes have significantly improved our professional image with clients, and the time savings alone made this investment worthwhile. The simplicity of maintaining the database ourselves means we can continue to evolve the platform as our needs change.”
How we work
Consulting expertise meets product DNA — we run our own live products, and we build for clients the same way.
Consulting, grounded in shipping
Strategy that ends in working software, not slide decks. We scope engagements into fixed milestones with weekly demos you can click, so you always know what you are getting and when.
- ✓Fixed-scope milestones
- ✓Weekly shippable demos
- ✓You own the code
- ✓Post-launch support
AI-native by default
ChromaWave is a member of the Claude Partner Network — we build production software with AI-augmented engineering every day, and we bring that same capability to client work. That is how a small team delivers senior-team output in weeks, not quarters.
- ✓Claude Partner Network Member
- ✓Claude, agents & MCP in production
- ✓Our own products as proof
- ✓Honest about what AI can and cannot do
What Our Clients Say
Real feedback from the engagements behind our case studies.
“The quoting platform ChromaWave developed has completely transformed our estimation process. Our engineers can now focus on designing solutions rather than searching for components, and the time savings alone made this investment worthwhile.”
Robert Johnson
QA Director
“The testing lab has transformed our operations in ways we didn't anticipate. It's become an innovation hub where our engineers can experiment without risk. ChromaWave understood exactly what we needed, even when we weren't entirely sure ourselves.”
M.T.
Director of Technical Operations
“GoodPAW has completely transformed how our team conducts field assessments. Everything I need is in one place, the offline capabilities mean I can work in areas with poor connectivity, and reporting has cut our documentation time in half.”
Sarah Kimball
Senior Field Engineer
Tell us what's slowing your team down.
30 minutes, no pitch deck — we'll tell you honestly whether and how we'd solve it.