Cleveland, OH · Wareham, MA

Hard problems.
Small shop.

We make systems talk to each other, and get the people around them on the same page too. Two senior people, 25 years of figuring out weird stuff, and a real shop out back.

Bring us a problem How we work

Sound familiar?

The stuff that falls between your tools, your vendors and your people.

Your systems don't talk.

Data typed into three places. A CRM, a booking tool and a spreadsheet that all disagree.

Your site keeps breaking.

Slow, hacked, or held together by a plugin nobody remembers installing.

Nobody owns the problem.

IT points at the vendor, the vendor points at the contractor, and it's still broken.

What comes through the shack

Integrations & custom software

Connect the tools you have. Build the one that doesn't exist yet.

Infrastructure & security

Hosting, WordPress, monitoring and incident response. The boring parts, done so they stay boring.

Operations & automation

Turn the process in someone's head into something that runs itself. Or go further: an AI supercharger built around your business, not a chatbot. Like ours →

The physical stuff

Signs, mounts, enclosures, custom builds. We know a guy. Sawdust and Coffee →

How it works

1. Tell us what's broken.

A real conversation with the people who'll do the work. No sales layer.

2. Straight scope, straight price.

What we'll build, what it costs, and what it won't do.

3. We build it and keep it running.

Then you stop thinking about it.

Our story

Roommates at Wentworth.
25 years later, back in the shack.

At DGS Energy, the Woodshack was the nickname for the corner where the odd, interesting projects got built: door locks, HVAC, wifi and front desk systems that had never talked to each other, and the owners, operators, IT and construction crews who had to agree on them. Tim built the company around it. Jason ran its projects.

They got there from opposite directions. Jason spent the 2000s on the retail floor: home theater at Best Buy, a district's worth of installation technicians at Circuit City, two Cape Cod pharmacies for CVS. Tim started a one-man controls company in Las Vegas and grew it into DGS, 45 people, sold in 2019.

Now the Woodshack is where we do that work again. This time it's an actual shop.

"If we're wrong and this all falls apart, we can start it again in the woodshack out back."

Read the whole story →

Built in the shack

Walter Sentry Agentless security monitoring for WordPress sites. Audits, agency white-label and incident response. How Sentry watches → Walter Offloads WordPress media on a CDN, without ever deleting your only local copy on a guess. What already shipped → GeoDirect One QR code for every yard sign. Each scan opens the listing for the house the buyer is standing in front of. How it works →

Inside the shack

Two people, one very organized machine.

The shop runs on Walter: one server that holds every project's context, remembers every lesson we've paid for, and puts each change through review by models from rival AI labs before a person decides it ships. It's how a two-person shop builds to the standard of a much bigger team. Walter isn't for sale, but we'll build you one of your own.

Walter built this website, too. Not "assisted with." He wrote the markup, the stylesheet and most of the words, and then we edited them and decided what went live. What that means →

Inside the shack

Notes

Written down so it sticks.

All notes →

Got a hard one?

Tell us what's broken. If we're not the right shop for it, we'll tell you who is.

Bring us a problem

Hard problems.Small shop.