Three recent results
Client names withheld by agreement.
0 weeks
to ship a UI modernization that had been stalled for 18 months
Result 10 weeks
to remove the legacy data layer blocking a product roadmap — 50,000+ records recovered
Result 2Zero
manual entry left in a freight brokerage’s document intake
Result 3Four ways in
Every door is a bounded, fixed-fee first engagement. Pick the sentence you’d say out loud; the door on the right is the one built for it.
Door 01
Typically $3,000–$7,500 · bounded, fixed-fee
A ranked workflow map and a written build / no-build call — yours to keep either way.
Door 01
Typically $3,000–$7,500 · bounded, fixed-fee
A ranked workflow map and a written build / no-build call — yours to keep either way.
Not one of the four?
Senior judgment on retainer, an engineering-performance audit, and partner delivery for software shops.
How it works
No pitch, no prep, no open-ended retainer. You know the scope, the fee, and the end date before anything starts.
Tell us the problem — two minutes.
FreeDirect answer within 24 hours on whether it’s a fit.
FreeIf it is: a 30-minute scoping call.
Written scope, timeline, and fixed fee before any work starts. You keep everything delivered.
How a request becomes running software
A scoped request arrives — one intent, one owner, a fixed fee.
Why the proof arrives early
A scoped request becomes a task graph — each task with its tests written first — and the tasks build simultaneously in isolated clean rooms rather than by editing a live codebase in place. Every line then passes a senior engineer before production. You see a running piece in week 1.
Semantic search, architecture maps, and contract-drift detection built from the source, not the wiki. An audit doesn’t need clean code or current docs. The expensive risk usually lives in the gap between what the team believes is running and what is.
ByteForge and Triptych are how SharkByte gets to a working proof faster and cheaper. They are not the product. Typical engagements run 3–8 weeks; a bounded conversion phase, 8–12.
The work
01 / 03
The problem was clear — a legacy data layer was blocking everything downstream. A product team had been working around it long enough that they had stopped expecting it to move. We extracted 50,000+ records and removed the dependency in four weeks. The roadmap started moving the week after.
Eighteen months in. No production milestone. The internal team was still on the project, which meant they were not on anything else. We scoped a bounded first phase, ran new and legacy stacks in parallel, and delivered the first production-ready milestone in six weeks — without pulling the team from their sprint work.
Every bill of lading, load confirmation, and rate confirmation was keyed in by hand — every document, every day. The volume was manageable until it wasn’t. A classification and parsing service now reads each document type and writes structured records straight into the TMS. Manual entry is gone from that workflow.
Who does the work
Brandon Shuey has been shipping production systems since 1996 — as founder, CEO, CTO, or architect five times over.
The client works directly with him: the same person who identifies the problem, writes the scope, and carries the work through architecture and build.
Fit
SharkByte takes work when three things are true: the problem has a real dollar cost, someone in the business owns it, and a bounded first engagement can prove the fix.
Tell us when
If you have a workflow that is costing you, a system that is slowing the company down, or a software decision you need an honest read on before you commit, tell us.
Not the right fit
If you need more developers on your existing team, a broad AI transformation program, or commodity content at scale, this is not the right fit.
Before you call
If yours is not here, it is a two-minute email and a direct answer within a day.
No. The Automation Opportunity Audit starts with your workflows as they actually run. It maps what is worth changing, what the economics look like, and what a realistic build would cost. If nothing clears the bar, it says so.
SharkByte works across logistics and freight brokerage, healthcare and long-term care, manufacturing and distribution, legal tech, and software-heavy mid-market companies. If your industry is not listed, the fit check will tell you quickly.
No result shown here is a guarantee; every engagement is scoped individually with written success criteria before work starts.
Final step
Tell us what it’s costing you. If it’s a fit, you’ll hear back within 24 hours — and one bounded engagement later, the problem stops being one.
No pitch. No prep. If it’s not a fit, I’ll tell you.
— Brandon Shuey, Principal
