The bookkeeper who got tired of typing.

I’m Tim O’Rourke. I spent 15 years doing small-business bookkeeping — my own fractional practice, plus office-manager and accountant roles before that. MBA in Accountancy from DePaul. U.S. Army veteran. I know what a shoebox of receipts looks like in February, because I was the one typing it in.

A year ago I taught myself to build software to automate the work I hated, and discovered the thing this whole business is built on: AI-assisted development has made custom software cheap enough and fast enough for ordinary small businesses — and almost nobody is building it for them. The agencies start at $10,000. The freelancer marketplaces are a lottery. The SaaS products almost fit.

So that’s the niche: real custom software, fixed prices a small business can say yes to, delivered in days, built by someone who’s actually kept your kind of books.

I live in Lake Bluff, Illinois. First client was a charter yacht captain — his crew uses the apps every day. Yours could be next.