The software you use should fit your life

Not the other way around.

The problem with SaaS (and software in general)

Before mass manufacturing, products were local. Clothing, pottery, furniture, tools -- they looked different from region to region, because they were made by people who knew the people using them. Then the assembly line arrived, and we traded fit for scale. Everything became the same, everywhere, for everyone.

We applied that same thinking to software. Every app you subscribe to was designed for thousands of customers at once. That means it has features you don't need, misses things you do, charges you more every year, and stores your data on someone else's servers forever.

The 58-year-old contractor doesn't need a $40/month CRM with fourteen tabs. He needs a morning text with his jobs for the day, and someone to call when something's wrong.

It doesn't have to be that way anymore. The tools exist to build software that fits one person, the way a good tailor fits one suit. That's what we do.

Personal software

We build software that is personal, shaped to one person's workflow, running on their machine, containing only the tools they actually use. Nothing more.

The tools are designed to be changed. When your workflow changes, your software changes with it. There is no support ticket. There is no waiting for the next product release. You call us, we fix it, done.

You own it

The software runs on your hardware. Your data stays on your network. If you decide to stop working with us, your tools keep running. You are not renting access to your own workflow.

This is not a novel idea. It's just rare now.

The same logic applies to AI

Most AI tools are cloud services. Your prompts, your documents, your data, all of it passes through someone else's servers to produce an answer. For many use cases that's an acceptable trade-off. For many it isn't.

Local models change that. A capable LLM running on your hardware produces answers without anything leaving your network. An agent built on top of it can read your files, draft your documents, summarize your meetings, and automate your workflows, all privately, all auditably, all under your control.

Auditable means every step is logged. You can see exactly what the agent did, what it read, what it decided, and why. No black boxes. No "the AI said so."

The relationship is the product

We are not a software company in the traditional sense. We are more like a doctor with a very good memory, except instead of prescribing medication, we prescribe software, and we built the pharmacy.

No ticket system. No chatbot. No "your request has been received." A real person who knows your setup, knows your frustrations, and fixes things. Technical people switch tools constantly. Someone who finally has admin that doesn't suck, and a real person to call when something's wrong. They don't leave.

Why extremely personal software

There is a creeping sameness to the digital world. Apps look alike. Dashboards are gray. Interfaces are optimized to offend no one, which means they express nothing. The design language of modern software is the design language of a waiting room.

This is not an accident. When you build for everyone, you sand down everything distinctive. You pick the neutral color. You choose the safe layout. You remove anything that might alienate a customer segment. The result is software that works, technically, and feels like nothing.

Extremely personal software is a rejection of that. When software is built for one person, it can reflect that person. It can be opinionated. It can be weird. It can use the colors they actually like, speak in a voice that sounds like them, and organize information the way their brain works rather than the way a product manager decided was most scalable.

Diversity of software is a good thing. A world where every contractor uses the same CRM, every lawyer uses the same case management tool, every small business runs on the same three platforms, is a world that has traded expression for efficiency. We think that trade is worth questioning. The tools you use every day shape how you think. They deserve to be yours.

The stack

Under the hood, every tool we build runs on EPS (Extremely Personal Software), a design philosophy and set of standards for building software that is meant to be customized, extended, and owned by the person using it.

EPS tools are managed by epm services , a lightweight process supervisor built into the epm CLI that runs your personal stack quietly in the background. Every tool declares its ports, the parts that are meant to be changed, so nothing is a black box.

We manage everything remotely. You never need to touch the server. The software just works, and we handle the rest.