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Full-Stack Software in Chicago.

Custom internal tools, dashboards, and portals, shipped in quarters, not years. Built for Chicago-based businesses, population 9,300,000, with the buyer profile and competitive dynamics that come with it.

Why Chicago businesses choose Inparlor

Full-Stack Software that fits how Chicago actually operates.

The Midwest's commercial center, with a diverse mix of finance, insurance, manufacturing, and a strong B2B services base anchoring the small-to-mid-market economy.

Full-Stack Software engagements in Chicago are scoped to the operating reality of a 9,300,000-person metro economy. We build the software that replaces your spreadsheets, vendor portals, and Frankensteined Zapier flows. Our existing client base in the metro skews toward accounting firms, law firms, insurance brokers, but the playbook adapts to the operator, not the other way around.

For Chicago businesses, Full-Stack Software engagements start at $75,000, fixed. Discovery in 2 weeks, MVP in 10 to 14 weeks, beta to GA in 4 to 8 weeks.

What we build for Chicago businesses

Scope, line by line.

  • Two-week paid discovery with a fixed-bid proposal at the end
  • Architecture diagram and data model
  • Authentication via Clerk, WorkOS, or Auth.js
  • Postgres database with migrations
  • Admin dashboard and role-based access control
  • REST or tRPC API with typed contracts
  • Stripe billing integration when relevant
  • Background jobs via Inngest or Trigger.dev
  • Observability with Sentry and Axiom
  • Production deployment with staging environment
Operating in Chicago

How the engagement adapts to a metro this size.

  • Paid discovery before any fixed bid

    Two weeks, scoped and paid. We map the workflow, talk to operators, and write a wireframe pack you can use even if you do not hire us. The bid that follows is a number, not a range.

  • Auth, billing, and roles solved on day one

    Clerk or WorkOS for auth. Stripe for billing. Role-based access control from the first sprint. These are solved problems and we do not re-solve them every engagement.

  • Postgres until you have a reason to leave

    Boring works. Postgres covers 95% of operator workloads. The migration to something exotic is real but cheap if you ever need it, and most teams never do.

  • Observability is not a phase-two project

    Sentry, Axiom, and a feature-flag layer ship with the first sprint. You cannot debug what you cannot see, and we will not hand off code we cannot diagnose.

FAQ

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