New Bern, NC · Craven County
I have worked your side of the counter. On this street.
A restaurant floor at a casino, 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 seven 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 $1,300. That is a floor, not a quote. What yours costs is agreed before any work begins. The first conversation is free and it can happen at your counter.
Built already · open one now · no login
Tools that are already finished
Small, narrow, and running on rules that belong to you rather than to your trade.
Each does a single job still being done on a legal pad — splitting a night’s tips, counting a back bar, working out what to reorder. No platform has taken any of them, because the rule inside each one is a decision that business made once and kept. Open any of them now on made-up numbers, then put your own in.
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- Finished tools
- Yours
- To own outright
- None
- Accounts or logins
- Nothing
- Leaves your browser
Free · no signup · about a minute
Start with a number, not a sales pitch.
Two questions about how you order and chase stock, and you will know what the paperwork is costing you a year — with the arithmetic printed, so you can check it yourself. Nothing is sent anywhere, and there is no email box.
- What you spend on stock in a normal month
- $8,000
- Hours a week ordering, chasing and checking
- 6
- Hours a year, from those two numbers alone
- 312
- What the paperwork costs you a year
- your figure, with its working
An example, using the two numbers the check starts with
If you cannot tell which of those you need
Everyone says you should be using AI. Nobody says where.
So I watch the work actually happening, on video with your screen shared, and write you a list of what is worth building, in order, with a number beside each line. If the honest answer is that no software fixes it, the document says that, and you still keep the document.
Software you already have that half works is a different read: the rescue read, on its own page.
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.
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.)
A website build starts at $2,500. That is a floor for the whole thing — the pages, working email that does not land in junk, your search listing, the two policy pages the law now requires, and one tool of your own built in. What yours costs is agreed before any work begins.
I start two builds a month and run two at a time, because I build every one myself. A site is delivered 30 days after I have what I need from you: the words, the pictures and the go-ahead.
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.