The CatalystTHE CATALYST
For Operators, Founders & Domain Experts

Own a Niche. We'll Build the Product.

If you have deep expertise in a specific market and an idea you believe in, we want to hear from you. We're a software partnership studio that takes domain knowledge from operators like you and turns it into production-ready SaaS — no outsourcing, no hand-offs, just a real co-build from concept to launch.

Why Partnerships Work

You bring the market edge, we bring product and engineering execution

Great Ideas, No Technical Partner

Great Ideas, No Technical Partner

Many businesses have strong domain insight but no reliable product partner to convert that expertise into a scalable software offering.

Vendors, Not True Partners

Execution Risk

How We Work Together

A shared-risk, shared-upside model focused on business outcomes

Co-Build with Senior Operators

Co-Build with Senior Operators

We pair your industry expertise with experienced product and engineering execution to build software that solves real market problems.

Aligned Incentives

Built to Scale

Partnership Engagement Model

From concept to scale, we execute in clear, accountable stages

Stage 1

Discovery & Strategy

Validate users, opportunity, and product thesis

Stage 2

Product Build

Ship MVP and core workflows with production quality

Stage 3

Go-To-Market Support

Iterate from customer feedback and traction signals

Stage 4

Scale & Optimization

Strengthen reliability, performance, and growth systems

What We Build With Partners

We turn operational expertise into software products that create defensible business value

Revenue-Creating Products

Client portals, platforms, and digital offerings that open new channels and monetize your expertise.

Operational Systems

Internal tools and workflow systems that reduce bottlenecks, improve visibility, and increase team output.

Scalable Foundations

Production-ready architecture, data foundations, and delivery processes built to support long-term growth.

You Might Be a Perfect Fit

We don't need a polished deck or a finished plan. If you have deep knowledge of a market and a conviction that something should exist that doesn't, that's enough to start a conversation.

• You've spent years in your industry and can spot problems others can't

• You have access to customers, distribution, or credibility in your niche

• You're serious about building something real, not just exploring an idea

Active Partnership Portfolio

The problems we chose to solve, how we solved them, and what we did differently

NextStep

Career Transition Platform
Active
The Problem

Professionals leaving service industries — military, trades, first responders — can't effectively translate their experience into language that resonates with civilian employers. Generic job boards and resume tools treat their background as a liability rather than an asset, leaving qualified candidates stuck at the application stage regardless of their actual capability.

Our Solution

An AI-powered career transition system built specifically for the translation problem. NextStep reframes a candidate's skills and work history for each target role, matches them with mentors who have made the exact same transition, and walks them through a structured multi-step coaching process from resume to offer acceptance.

What We Did Different

Most job platforms treat all resumes the same. NextStep is context-aware at the core — it understands what a service-industry background actually means and actively bridges the gap for the candidate instead of expecting them to figure out the language on their own. The mentor matching layer adds human accountability that no other platform offers at this level.

FlōLine

Trade Operations Platform
Active
The Problem

Plumbing and HVAC businesses run on a fragmented stack of phone calls, spreadsheets, paper invoices, and disconnected apps. Field crews show up to jobs without complete information. Office staff have no real-time visibility into what is happening on-site. Every handoff is a potential failure point that costs time, money, and customer trust.

Our Solution

A unified field-to-office operations platform that connects dispatch, scheduling, crew management, inventory tracking, and customer communication in one system. Both the office team and field technicians operate from a shared source of truth, eliminating the gap between what is planned and what is actually happening.

What We Did Different

Existing field service software is built for large enterprise contractors with IT teams and lengthy onboarding cycles. FlōLine is designed specifically for small-to-mid trade businesses that need it working on day one without a consultant, a training program, or a six-month implementation timeline. Simplicity and speed to value were the design constraints, not feature volume.

Bedrock

Franchise Intelligence Platform
Active
The Problem

Prospective franchise buyers face an opaque, high-stakes market. FDD documents are dense and difficult to compare across brands. Franchise brokers are incentivized to push specific opportunities regardless of fit. There is no neutral, data-driven environment for a buyer to independently research, model, and compare their options before making a decision that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Our Solution

A buyer-first franchise research and evaluation platform that consolidates structured data across franchise offerings. Bedrock provides a comparison engine, custom ROI modeling tools, and deal flow coordination features — all designed to help a prospective owner arrive at an informed decision independently.

What We Did Different

Every franchise tool on the market is a broker portal built to generate leads for sellers. Bedrock is the first platform built exclusively for the buyer. There are no referral incentives, no featured listings, and no broker-driven rankings. The entire experience is designed around the buyer's decision process, giving them the neutral research environment the market has never offered.

Finance Trading Platform

Algorithmic Trading Tools
Active
The Problem

Individual and small-firm quantitative traders lack access to the backtesting infrastructure, data pipelines, and execution hooks that institutional desks take for granted. Building it from scratch requires months of engineering work and significant ongoing maintenance. Retail tools are either too simplified to be useful or too complex to operate without a dedicated engineering team.

Our Solution

A professional-grade suite of strategy backtesting, live signal generation, and portfolio analytics tools accessible without an institutional engineering team behind it. The platform handles data normalization, execution infrastructure, and performance reporting so traders can focus on building and refining their strategies.

What We Did Different

The gap between retail trading tools and institutional infrastructure has always been enormous. This platform was built to occupy that middle ground — giving serious individual traders and small firms the same quality of tooling that larger desks use, without the overhead, licensing costs, or vendor lock-in that come with enterprise trading systems.

Careers Launch Jobs ATS

Applicant Tracking System
Active
The Problem

Career training organizations graduate cohorts of job-ready candidates but have no structured system for connecting them to employers at scale. Placements happen through personal relationships, email threads, and spreadsheets. Outcomes are hard to track, impossible to report on, and impossible to improve systematically — which limits both program credibility and graduate success.

Our Solution

A vertical applicant tracking system purpose-built for the program-to-placement pipeline. Careers Launch Jobs ATS connects cohort completion data directly to employer job postings, manages the full candidate workflow from program exit to placement confirmation, and produces outcome reporting that gives training organizations the data they need to measure and improve their results.

What We Did Different

Generic ATS platforms are designed for HR teams filling roles at a single company — not for training organizations placing graduates at hundreds of employers. Every workflow in this system is built around the cohort lifecycle. Batch processing, cohort-aware candidate profiles, and multi-employer pipeline management are first-class features, not workarounds.

Interested in building something like this?

Partnership Outcomes

Execution metrics from software initiatives we help bring to market

$50M+
Portfolio Value
25+
Active Partners
100+
Projects Launched
2025
Founded

Let's Have a Conversation.

No pitch. No commitment. If you have the domain knowledge and an idea worth building, we want to hear about it — even if it's still rough.

Still figuring out the idea?

Early stage is where we do our best work. Domain knowledge is more valuable than a finished plan.

No technical background?

Good. You focus on the market. We handle product, engineering, and everything it takes to ship.

Not sure you're a fit?

Reach out anyway. The worst outcome is we point you in a better direction.

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