Malik·Carey malik@malikbuilds.co

Independent · Cleveland, Ohio

Small software for work that's still on paper.

Some companies make good money and still run one important job on paper — a clipboard, an inbox, a drawing somebody retypes at night. I build the tool that fixes that one job. Find yours below and try it.

What these are

Real working demos. Not videos, not screenshots. You tap through one and it does the actual job — reads the paperwork, sorts the inbox, writes up the photos.

How long it takes

Forty seconds to try. If you want one built, I start the week you say yes — most are running inside two weeks.

What it costs

Trying it, nothing — there's no checkout here. Builds start at $2,500, plus $149 a month. You'd hear your exact number before I start.

01 / Find your job

Which one of these is your Monday?

Type what you do — forklift, rate con, certificate, RFQ, resume, sprinkler, spray — or tap a sector. All 21 demos below work right now.

Certified backflow testers & plumbers

Test sheets come back rejected weeks after the work was done

Readings are entered at the device and become a record in whatever format the water authority wants. Ohio Admin. Code 3745-95-06 Try it → Specialty subcontractors

The GC asks why you didn't bid. It sat in your inbox eleven days

Reads every invitation to bid the morning it lands and sorts it against your trade, your radius and your bonding capacity. No rule — just the money Try it → Small trucking fleets

A driver writes up a defect and the shop never sees it

The report reaches the shop the second it's signed, and the truck stays flagged until a mechanic clears it. 49 CFR 396.11 Try it → Field service techs on mixed fleets

He's on the roof and the manual is a PDF in the van

Answers a spec question across every brand you service, and cites the manual and page it came from. No rule — just the money Try it → Extinguisher service companies & facilities

The tag is blank, missing, or filled in twelve months at once

Each monthly check is timestamped where the extinguisher hangs, so a gap shows up as a gap. OSHA 29 CFR 1910.157(e) Try it → Fire sprinkler ITM contractors

You find deficiencies and never get paid to fix them

Findings get classed, photographed and quoted before the tech leaves the property. No rule — just the money Try it → Restaurants & food processors

Sunday's temperatures got written in on Monday

Readings are timestamped when they're taken, and an out-of-range reading makes you record what you did about it. Ohio Admin. Code 3717-1-02.4 Try it → Warehouses & plants with forklifts

The daily forklift check lives on a clipboard nobody can find

The operator taps through the check on their phone. It becomes a dated record you can pull up in seconds. OSHA 29 CFR 1910.178(q)(7) Try it → Independent funeral homes

The family can't close the account — one filing is still out

Reads the arrangement intake once and pre-fills every downstream filing, flagging the fields counties reject over. No rule — just the money Try it → Licensed home inspectors

It's 10pm and there are 180 photos left to caption

Turns the photos off your phone into written findings with severity assigned — so you edit instead of starting from a blank page. No rule — just the money Try it → Kitchen exhaust cleaning contractors

The before-and-after photos left with the crew that quit

Photos attach to the hood itself, so the cleaning history outlives whoever did the work. No rule — just the money Try it → Commercial HVAC contractors

At renewal you can't prove your techs were ever on the roof

Every visit is timestamped at the unit, building a per-unit history you can show the customer. No rule — just the money Try it → Independent insurance agencies

Thirty-five certificates a week, billed on none of them

Reads the request email and drafts the ACORD 25 — including the additional-insured wording that causes the E&O claims. No rule — just the money Try it → Machine & fabrication shops

Six prints came in. You quoted two, at nine at night

Reads the drawing and the email together and pulls the quotable facts — including the callouts that quietly eat your margin. No rule — just the money Try it → Warehouses & 3PLs with pallet racking

A forklift hits an upright and the bay keeps getting loaded

Damage is photographed at the bay and the bay reads red until a later check clears it. OSHA 29 CFR 1910.176(b) Try it → Licensed pesticide applicators

A drift complaint lands and the record is in a truck-cab notebook

Wind, temperature, product and EPA number are captured at the site, timestamped and searchable for three years. Ohio Admin. Code 901:5-11-10 Try it → Municipal parks departments

A child gets hurt and counsel wants two years of inspection files

Each structure gets a dated, photographed history instead of a clipboard in a drawer. No rule — just the money Try it → Small trucking carriers & dispatch

Every booked load gets retyped by hand at nine at night

Reads the broker's rate confirmation and turns it into a dispatched load — appointment times and detention terms included. No rule — just the money Try it → Sign shops & small print shops

They went with the shop that answered in a day

Reads the customer's request email and turns it into priceable line items — flagging the details that change the labor number. No rule — just the money Try it → Small staffing & recruiting agencies

The client filled it while forty resumes sat unread

Reads every application the morning it lands and routes it to the req it fits — flagging partial matches instead of dropping them. No rule — just the money Try it → Small wineries & craft distilleries

It's the 14th and the gallons don't match the POS

Reconciles the cellar sheet, tasting-room sales and transfers into an operations report — and points at the line that doesn't balance. No rule — just the money Try it → Don't see yours?

Tell me the job you still do on paper

Twenty-one built so far and yours isn't one of them. Describe it in two lines and I'll tell you straight whether it's worth building and what it would cost. You get me, not a formEmail me →

02 / How it works

You decide before I build, not after.

No demo call where I talk for an hour. No proposal document. It goes like this:

  1. 1You try a demoForty seconds on your phone. If it's wrong, you'll know.
  2. 2Fifteen minutes on the phoneYou explain the job. I listen and take notes.
  3. 3I give you a priceBuilds start at $2,500 and go up with complexity. You get your number on the call, before I build.
  4. 4I start the same weekSimple ones are days. Bigger ones two weeks. No discovery phase, no statement of work, no queue.
  5. 5Monthly after that$149 a month, same for everyone. Not right at thirty days? The build fee comes back.

✓Why I can promise that: you'd be early. Nobody is paying for these yet. The risk of being first shouldn't land on you, so it lands on me.

03 / The obvious question

“Couldn't I just do this with ChatGPT myself?”

You could. Genuinely — the technology isn't the hard part any more, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something.

It would take you about forty hours to get right, and then you'd own maintaining it forever. I'll do it in two weeks, built around the actual form your crew fills in, and if it isn't doing what you need at thirty days I give the build money back.

The gap was never capability. It's that nobody running nine trucks is going to build a document pipeline on a Sunday.

  • I check the rule and link it Where a demo mentions a regulation, it links the regulator's own page and says plainly what the rule does not require. Most vendors in this space claim OSHA demands paperwork it has never demanded. You can check me in one click — that's the point.
  • You see it working before I ask you for anything No deck, no discovery call, no “book a demo.” Forty seconds on your phone, and if the workflow is wrong for your shop you'll know before you've spent anything.
  • One person builds it, and that person is the one you email No sales team, no account manager, no ticket queue. If it breaks at 6am you're talking to whoever wrote it.
  • Most vendors are still writing the paperwork An agency spends four to six weeks on discovery and a statement of work before anyone writes a line of code. At that point you'd already be using yours. I skip all of it — the demo is the scoping conversation.
  • Three builds at a time. That's the real number It's how many I can do properly at once, so there's sometimes a wait. If there is, I'll give you the honest date rather than pretend there isn't.

04 / About me

One person. That's the whole company.

I'm Malik Carey. I build software on my own, in Cleveland, Ohio. There's no sales team, no support queue, and no account manager — when you email, you get me.

  • Zenith QuotingReads a blueprint PDF and works out a price for machine and fabrication shops. If it isn't confident enough about a part, it says so instead of guessing.
  • BrandBreakdownLooks at a clothing brand's store and reports what's costing it sales.
  • The generator behind this pageEvery demo here is made from one template and a settings file, which is why a new trade takes an afternoon instead of a month.

Tell me what's wrong with one.

Seriously — that's the most useful thing you can send me. If a demo is close but wrong for how your shop actually works, that's worth more to me than a compliment. Name the one check I missed and I'll add it.

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