Custom Software for
Petaluma businesses.
Custom web apps, internal tools, and automations built for Petaluma businesses — from downtown restaurants and breweries to ag-tech startups and the small manufacturers along the river. Custom-coded, owned by you, with one accountable builder on the project.
Petaluma runs on a rare mix: a dairy-and-poultry heritage that earned it the "Egg Capital" name, a downtown of iron-front buildings packed with restaurants and retail, and a tech bench deep enough that locals still call the area Telecom Valley. That spread means the software a Petaluma business actually needs rarely comes off a shelf. A small manufacturer near Lakeville Highway tracking jobs and parts, a brewery managing taproom shifts and distribution orders, a downtown restaurant group juggling reservations and inventory across locations — each one ends up wrestling spreadsheets and a stack of disconnected apps that almost fit but never quite do.
That's the gap Copper Bay Tech fills. I build the custom tool that matches how your shop actually works instead of forcing your crew to bend around someone else's template. Based in Santa Rosa, I work on-site across Petaluma and the North Bay and remotely for the rest. The approach is plain: start with the smallest useful version that solves your most expensive daily headache, get it in your hands fast, then grow it. You own the code outright — no per-seat lock-in, no no-code platform deciding your future for you.
What's included
Every engagement includes.
- A single accountable owner — you work directly with the person writing the code, start to finish
- An MVP-first plan: the smallest useful version shipped early, then built out from real feedback
- Custom-coded software, not no-code templates or rented platforms you can't change
- Full source code and accounts handed to you — you own everything we build
- Replies within one business day, every time
- Clean integrations between the tools you already use, instead of yet another silo
- Plain-English scoping and pricing — no jargon, no surprise change orders
- Practical automation (including AI where it genuinely helps) for the repetitive work eating your week
- Post-launch support and documentation so your team can actually run the thing
Industries we support
What we build for Petaluma businesses.
Custom Software in Petaluma — common questions
Do you work on-site with Petaluma businesses or only remotely?
Both. I'm based in Santa Rosa, so Petaluma is a short drive — I'll come to your downtown storefront, taproom, or shop floor off Lakeville to see how your team actually works before writing a line of code. Most of the build happens remotely after that, and you get same-day-or-next-business-day replies throughout.
We're a small manufacturer near the river still running on spreadsheets. Is custom software worth it for a shop our size?
Usually, yes — and the point is to start small. Instead of a big rollout, I build the smallest useful version first, like a job-tracking or inventory tool that replaces the one spreadsheet causing the most rework. You see whether it pays off before investing further, and because it's custom-coded, it fits your exact process rather than forcing you into someone else's template.
Petaluma has a real tech scene — why hire you instead of using a no-code platform?
No-code tools are fine until you hit their limits, then you're stuck paying rising per-seat fees and can't change the parts that matter. I write actual code that you own outright, so the software grows with you and never holds your business hostage. For a town with Petaluma's Telecom Valley roots, owning your own stack just makes sense.
Can you connect the different apps our restaurant or brewery already uses?
That's a big part of the work. Most Petaluma food and beverage businesses I talk to have a reservation system, a POS, an accounting tool, and a distributor portal that don't talk to each other. I build the integrations and automations that move data between them automatically, so your staff stops re-keying numbers and you get one clear view of the operation.
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