Three ways to fix this. Here is the honest comparison.

An operator builds it, not an account manager.

Most business software is built by people who have never run a shift, packed an order, or chased a late delivery. It shows, usually in the one screen you use forty times a day.

I have spent about a decade inside a food manufacturer and eight years running a small food business with my wife. I built Lumi because I needed it to do my own job, and I still use it every day.

AI is optional here, and never the point.

The whole market is shouting about AI. Noti is not, on purpose. Everything I build runs on stable, predictable systems: rules, schedules, databases, dashboards, alerts. The same boring kind of technology your banking and accounting run on.

No models that make things up. No behaviour that changes without warning. No per-query costs that blow out as you grow. If AI genuinely saves you time in one specific spot, it goes in that spot. Otherwise it stays out.

The monthly runs your system. It is not a licence fee.

The build is a fixed price and the system is built around your business. After that, the monthly covers running it: hosting, backups, support and small refinements. It is not per seat, and the bill does not move because you added three people.

Month to month on 30 days notice, no lock-in, documentation handed over. What happens if I disappear is a fair question and there is a real answer to it.

Do not hire me if any of these are true.

• Your process is genuinely standard. If an off-the-shelf tool fits how you already work, buy it. I will tell you that on the first call.
• You want a team. Noti is one person, deliberately. A few clients at a time is the model.
• You want the cheapest option. A paid Discovery day and a fixed-price build is not the cheapest way to get software. It is the way to get software that fits.
• Nothing is actually broken. If information is moving fine and nobody is chasing anything, you do not need me yet.