New Bern, NC · Craven County
I have worked your side of the counter. On this street.
A restaurant floor, a bank's lending division, a clinic's front office, an insurance book, and now the planning floor of the appliance plant in town. Four of those five are on a New Bern street, and every one of them ran on a spreadsheet somebody was quietly holding together.
I build the software that ends that, and you own it outright. Builds start at $2,500 — a floor, not a quote. The first conversation is free and it can happen at your counter.
Three founding builds · two left
- 01 · SPOKEN FOR
- 02 · OPEN
- 03 · OPEN
Two of the three are still free.
I am building for three New Bern businesses at no charge, and one is already spoken for. You get the tool, you own it outright, and there is no invoice at the end of it.
What I want instead: permission to put your name on this site, show what I built, and quote you on whether it was worth your time — plus the parts you would change. I am new here, and a stranger with nothing to show is a stranger. Three businesses willing to be named is worth more to me than three invoices.
Nothing here depends on a review. You are welcome to leave one and welcome not to, and it makes no difference to what you get or what it costs you — which is nothing.
Three, then the price is the price.
And if it turns out not to earn its place, it costs you nothing and I will not ask to put your name to it. I would rather have an empty slot than a polite one.
What is due, and whenStart here · open one now · no login
Some of it is already built.
Small tools that run on your rules, not on your trade’s.
Splitting a night’s tips on whatever your house decided years ago. Counting the back bar on a Sunday and working out what to order. A crew share off a boat. Billing a yard by the foot. Every one of these is still done on a legal pad somewhere in this county, because the rule inside it belongs to that business rather than to everybody in the trade — and a rule that belongs to one owner never pays a platform back for building it.
Open any of them right now on made-up numbers, then put your own in. Nothing you type is sent anywhere, stored by anyone, or seen by me.
/ 01 Why this, why here
The dream, close to home.
For years, real custom software was something only big companies could afford. The local business made do — rented templates, off-the-shelf subscriptions, and workarounds nobody liked. AI changed that. The shop running on spreadsheets can have its data turned into a working tool today, and own the custom system it runs on tomorrow — no enterprise budget, no license, no asking permission.
I wasn’t born here. I chose it — New Bern is home, and it’s where I’ll always start. The businesses that make this town what it is deserve tools built for them — not hand-me-downs from software designed for a company ten times their size. If you run a small business here, or anywhere nearby, this is for you.
Tryon Palace went up in 1770, and this was the capital of North Carolina — until the state bought land for Raleigh in 1792 and the legislature moved there in 1794. Caleb Bradham mixed the drink that became Pepsi in his pharmacy at Middle and Pollock in 1893. He bet the company on sugar, the market collapsed, and by ’23 he was bankrupt. The company he invented is headquartered in Purchase, New York today; he went back to running his drugstore.
New Bern has built things the world wanted. It hasn’t always gotten to keep them. That’s the whole reason everything I build is yours to own. New Bern has been a Main Street town since 1980 — one of the first five in North Carolina. Let’s build the next big thing here, and keep it this time.
/ 02 Why local
Twenty minutes away.
Anyone can build software for you from anywhere. Three things change when the person building it lives in your town.
I can come to you
Not a screen-share with someone three time zones away. I can stand in your shop and watch how the work actually runs — which is most of how I figure out what to build.
I know this town
New Bern and Craven County, the businesses on these streets, the seasons that swing your week. Context I don’t have to be briefed on before I can be useful.
You get the person building it
No account manager, no handoff, no offshore team. The person you talk to is the person writing the code, and he lives twenty minutes away.
What actually gets built — a real website you own, your spreadsheets turned into a live tool, or any custom tool your business needs — is the same whether you’re here or not. See the three things I build →
Just getting online?
Running your business off a Facebook page — or nothing at all? I’ll build you a real website you own, not a rented template or a profile on someone else’s platform. Same principle as everything else here: it’s yours, and you’re not paying rent on it forever. (Ongoing upkeep is optional, on a retainer.)
/ 03 Proof I ship
Real, live, and built by me.
No stock photos of software that doesn’t exist — just two live sites I designed, built, and run. You’re on one of them right now.
This site — appliediqsolutions.com
Designed, built, and run by AppliedIQ, top to bottom — the live tools, the writing, the whole thing. You’re looking at it.
See what it runs →ian-provencher.com
My public build workspace — the repos, apps, cron jobs, and architectures behind the work, plus field notes. Also designed, built, and run by me.
Visit the workspace →Let’s build something that’s yours.
The first conversation is free. Tell me what your business is wrestling with, and I’ll tell you straight how I’d build the fix — and what it takes.