IT CAN BE BUILT.
HERE'S HOW.
You describe what it needs to do and who it's for. We come back with how we'd build it, what it takes, and what we'd worry about first, in language you can take straight into your next meeting.
Twenty minutes with a senior engineer. A rough idea is enough to start.
// 02 · THE WORK WE TAKE ON
FIVE SITUATIONS.
FIND YOURS.
A creative director whose premiere has a date that won't move. A founder with more roadmap than runway. A team lead whose platform can't so much as blink. A studio watching a workaround quietly cost them every week. A marketer sitting on an idea nobody's built before. Different problems, same door, and every one of them got what they came for.
It has to work the first time.
A premiere, a trade show floor, a campaign launch. The build being finished was never the question. The question is what happens when the venue wifi drops and ten thousand people show up in the first four minutes. We design for that day first and build backward from it, so on the day, it holds.
Proof→An AI pipeline generating video and cloned voice live on the CES floor for Amazon MGM, running on-prem because the venue network couldn't be trusted.There's no template for this one.
Hardware in the field. A payments rail. A live audience. An AI model doing something it wasn't quite built to do. Nobody can hand you a quote for a thing that hasn't been done, so we answer the hard question first, prototype the part that worries us, and come back with a real plan instead of a range and a shrug.
Proof→$50,000 given away by an armored truck moving through Los Angeles, on live GPS proximity with automated payout.The runway is shorter than the roadmap.
You need the version that gets you funded and in front of real users, built so the next three features don't mean starting over. We ship the smallest thing that teaches you something real, demo early, and adjust with you. It's your product and your code, ready to hand an in-house team the day you hire one.
Proof→Upload a messy After Effects project, close your laptop, and get it back cleaned to your studio's standard, sorted while you worked on something else.It already exists and it can't break.
Thousands of people use it every day, behind an approval chain, a security review, and accessibility standards, with your own team running it long after we're gone. We've worked inside those constraints for years, so they shape the build instead of ambushing it at the end. Then we go into the review and make you look good.
Proof→A menu on National Grid's site that shows a gas customer in Buffalo her rates and her outage number, and hides the parts that were never meant for her.It's costing you money every week.
The workaround has been there so long it just looks like the job now. A form that stopped sending. Orders in one system and not the other. A report someone rebuilds by hand every Monday. We watch how your team actually works, find the gap nobody designed for, and fix the design, not just the connection, so the numbers match at the end of the day and the system tells you when something's wrong instead of waiting for you to notice.
Proof→Reports a warehouse team had quietly stopped opening because they timed out, rebuilt to load in a third of a second, on the system their clients see too.// 03 · THE RECEIPTS
WHAT WE BUILT.
AND WHAT IT DID.
Four projects. An AI pipeline running live on the CES floor, most of the interactive front end of a national utility's site, an armored truck giving away $50,000 on live GPS, and a warehouse system rebuilt to load in a third of a second.
Mercy
709 trials in three days. Every one personalized.
An AI booth that put CES visitors on trial using evidence made from their own face.
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National Grid
A two-week project. Now the whole front end.
The interactive front end of a national utility’s platform, across three regions.
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The Pickup
224 payouts. 224 ads.
An armored truck gave away $50,000 across Los Angeles, and every payout advertised the film.
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Paraiso Packing
Minutes, or nothing at all. Now one third of a second.
A warehouse system, and the portal its clients log into, rebuilt from timing out to instant.
View case study// 04 · UNDER THE HOOD
THE BORING PART.
DONE PROPERLY.
Discovery, scope, build, launch. Everyone does those, and we'll walk you through ours on the call. These are the four that decide whether you're happy a year from now.
The foundation
We choose the platform and set it up properly before anything gets built on top of it, so the feature you think of in month six doesn't mean starting over. Most of the cost in software comes from decisions made in the first two weeks.
You see it every week
Weekly check-ins and working demos, all the way through. Your team's input shapes it as it goes, so nothing is built in the dark for three months and revealed at the end. Everything lives in your repository, every change tracked and visible. The code is yours, from day one.
The unglamorous half
Automated deployment from development to staging to production, so releases are routine instead of an event. Multiple security passes with every finding reviewed and closed. QA across phones, tablets, desktops, and browsers, including the old ones your users haven't upgraded. Error alerts, uptime monitoring, and secrets stored properly. Cookie consent that actually turns things off when someone says no.
60 days of support, included
We're beside you through launch, and a senior engineer is available if something needs fixing that day. For sixty days after, bugs and edge cases are covered. If we missed something, we fix it. You won't get an invoice for it.
“QCS’s talent for understanding what we needed and translating that into the actual build was remarkable. Communication was great throughout, and they guided us through every challenge along the way.”
— Maximilian Nicklas, Media Director, Production Club
// 05 · THE STUDIO
BUILT IN THE QUEEN CITY.
SHIPPED EVERYWHERE.
Good ideas die in the handoff between the people who dream them up and the people who have to build them. Queen City Software exists to close that gap.
Led by Dave Averdick, a full-stack developer with twenty years across high-growth startups, advertising, and enterprise consulting. That range is the point: he’s sat on the agency side of the table and the engineering side, which is why the brief doesn’t need translating before the work starts.
Cincinnati earned the nickname as a river trade hub two centuries ago. We borrowed the name and the work ethic that built it.
The campaign goes off without a hitch. The product lands its first real client. The thing that never worked finally does. That’s the job.
// 06 · START HERE
TELL US WHAT
YOU'RE BUILDING.
Twenty minutes with a senior engineer, and you'll leave with how we'd build it, roughly what it takes, and what we'd worry about first. We read every message ourselves and reply within one business day.
A rough idea is enough to start.
That's in front of us now.
You'll hear back within one business day, from an engineer rather than a form letter. Nothing else needed on your end.
Or just email us at hello@queencity.io