Franklin, IN · Johnson County

Franklin IN AI Development for a County Seat With a College in It

A courthouse, a 190-year-old college, and the county largest employer, all inside a few blocks. Three calendars, one small downtown.

Franklin was platted in 1823 and named for Benjamin Franklin, took its post office the following year, and incorporated in 1861. It has been the seat of Johnson County the whole time, and the courthouse square is still the reason a good deal of professional work happens here rather than in Greenwood. Downtown kept its early brick streets and its older houses, and the Artcraft Theatre is run by a nonprofit rather than a chain.

Franklin College opened in 1834 as the Indiana Baptist Manual-Labor Institute and was the first college in Indiana to admit women. It sits on 207 wooded acres with about 966 students and the Pulliam School of Journalism in Shirk Hall. Two miles away on West Jefferson, Johnson Memorial Health describes itself as the largest employer in the county and runs primary care, specialty clinics and diagnostics across the area.

That combination gives Franklin a rhythm nowhere else in the county has. August and January bring students, landlords, and every business that sells to eighteen-year-olds a fortnight of chaos. Summer empties out. Meanwhile the courthouse deadlines and the clinic diary keep running at their own pace, indifferent to both. If your business sits in any of those streams, the paperwork problem is a timing problem.

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In Plain English

What We Fix for Franklin Businesses

Most businesses around Franklin and central Johnson County do not call us asking for software. They call because the same thing keeps going wrong every week.

Calls going to voicemail while you work

The phone rings while you are on a job. By the time you call back, they hired someone else. We build systems that answer, capture what the customer needs, and get it to you.

Quotes that take days to go out

Job details end up on a notepad, in your head, and in three text messages. We put them in one place so the estimate goes out the same day.

Customers calling to ask where things stand

Every "just checking in" call interrupts real work. A customer portal lets them see it themselves.

The same information typed in three times

Written on a form, retyped into a spreadsheet, retyped again into the invoice. Enter it once and let it flow.

Deadlines that arrive on three different clocks

A filing date, an enrolment deadline and an appointment slot do not negotiate with each other, and in a town this size the same handful of people are chasing all three. What goes wrong is rarely the work itself. It is a document requested and never returned, a student who never finished registering, a referral that sat in an inbox for nine days.

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What We Can Build

A professional website

MAKE MORE MONEY

Fast, works on a phone, and turns visitors into phone calls and quote requests.

Online quote requests

MAKE MORE MONEY

Customers describe the job and attach photos. You price it accurately the first time.

A customer portal

SAVE TIME

One place for customers to see their job, documents, invoices, and status.

Scheduling

EASIER TO RUN

Jobs, crews, and equipment on one calendar. No double-booking.

Billing and online payment

MAKE MORE MONEY

Invoices go out when the work is done. Customers can pay online.

Customer tracking and follow-up

LOSE FEWER CUSTOMERS

Missed calls get captured. Quotes get followed up on. Nothing depends on remembering.

Document and record management

SAVE TIME

Contracts, photos, signed forms, and certificates found in seconds instead of folders.

Custom software built around your business

EASIER TO RUN

When your process has outgrown spreadsheets, paper, or software built for somebody else.

What about AI?

AI is one tool we can put inside your system. We use it when it saves you time, organizes information, finds something faster, or prepares work for your review.

If ordinary software can do the job better, we use ordinary software instead.

We are not here to sell you AI. We are here to build the thing that fixes the problem.

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See It Working

These are live demonstration sites we built. Click through them the way a customer would.

Crossroads Business Counsel

Legal and professional services

Conflict-checked intake and document chasing for a firm that bills its time — built the way a practice two streets from the courthouse actually works.

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Midwest Skills Institute

Technical education

Enrolment, training records and certification tracking — the shape of the problem for anyone teaching or credentialing people on a term calendar.

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How We Build It

Your business does not have to change to fit our software. We build the software to fit your business.

We do not hand you another piece of software and expect you to figure out how to use it.

  1. 01We learn how your business actually works — a real week, not the version on paper.
  2. 02We find where the most is being lost — usually one specific handoff.
  3. 03We build the smallest thing that fixes it — one workflow, fixed price, a result you can see.
  4. 04We add to it as you grow — each piece connects to the last.

A person on your team can always review anything important before it goes out. We are a Indiana-based team and we work under an NDA whenever you want one.

Start with one workflow

How These Systems Work

Four workflows built around Franklin and central Johnson County.

For owners and IT folks who want the specifics. Each one starts at the surface a customer or a crew actually touches, automates the repeatable middle, keeps a person on the gate that matters, and ends in something you can hand to an auditor, a customer, or a regulator.

Research focus: a county seat of 26,000 holding the Johnson County Courthouse, a liberal arts college of about 966 students founded in 1834, and the county largest employer in Johnson Memorial Health, with a restored brick-street downtown between them.

01 / Practices working the courthouse square

Step 1 · Where it starts

A first-contact form that asks who else is involved before it asks anything else, so a conflict can be checked before a consultation is ever booked.

Step 2 · What gets automated

Names, entities and relationships are pulled from the enquiry and run against your existing matter list, and near-matches are flagged for a human to judge rather than cleared automatically.

Step 3 · The process it plugs into

Each matter carries a live list of what is outstanding and who owes it. Documents a client has been asked for twice are visible as such, which is the difference between a chase and a nag.

Step 4 · SolaceSentry review

Nothing goes to a client, an opposing party or a court without a named fee earner reading it. The system never originates correspondence.

Step 5 · What leaves the system

Intake finished in one pass with the conflict check already done, and a chase list that reflects what is genuinely outstanding today.

Proof metric: Days between a document being requested and received, and matters stalled purely on missing client paperwork.

02 / Term dates, enrolment and records

Step 1 · Where it starts

One page per programme showing dates, prerequisites, cost and what a person has to produce to start — written so a prospective student can self-qualify before anyone picks up a phone.

Step 2 · What gets automated

Transcripts, prior certificates and identity documents are read, sorted into the right file, and checked for the fields the registrar needs, with anything ambiguous sent to a person rather than guessed at.

Step 3 · The process it plugs into

A half-finished application does not sit silently. It surfaces on a list by how close the deadline is and what exactly is missing, so a call can be about one specific document.

Step 4 · SolaceSentry review

Admission and eligibility decisions stay with staff. The system assembles the file and shows what is short; it never accepts or rejects.

Step 5 · What leaves the system

A complete enrolment file per student before the term starts, and a record of every credential on hand with its expiry.

Proof metric: Applications abandoned at the document stage, and how many files were still incomplete in week one of term.

03 / Referrals and the clinical diary

Step 1 · Where it starts

Appointment booking that shows what is genuinely free by clinician and site, with intake and insurance details collected in advance rather than on a clipboard.

Step 2 · What gets automated

Incoming referrals and messages are read for urgency and specialty and put in front of the right team, with any language suggesting an emergency escalated immediately to a human rather than queued.

Step 3 · The process it plugs into

Every referral keeps one record from arrival to appointment to letter back, so nobody has to reconstruct from an inbox where a patient got to.

Step 4 · SolaceSentry review

A clinician reviews anything clinical, without exception. Reminders and logistics are automated; advice is not, and we will not build it that way.

Step 5 · What leaves the system

Referrals acknowledged the day they arrive and booked with the information already gathered, and letters back that actually go back.

Proof metric: Time from referral received to appointment offered, and referrals with no recorded outcome after thirty days.

04 / Downtown trade and the events on the square

Step 1 · Where it starts

A shared calendar and stall or vendor application for the brick-street district, so a shop can see what is happening outside its door six weeks out instead of six days.

Step 2 · What gets automated

Vendor applications are checked for the things that hold an event up — insurance, permits, power needs, food handling — and incomplete ones are returned with the specific gap named.

Step 3 · The process it plugs into

Approved vendors, layouts and contacts carry over year to year, so an annual event is not rebuilt from a spreadsheet somebody kept on a laptop that has since left.

Step 4 · SolaceSentry review

A named organiser approves each vendor and the final layout. Nothing is confirmed to a trader automatically.

Step 5 · What leaves the system

A confirmed vendor list and site plan well before the day, and merchants who had time to staff and stock for it.

Proof metric: Days from application to a decision, and vendor spaces still unfilled in the final week.

Payment Plans

Premium custom work without one painful check.

We are not trying to be the cheapest software on the shelf. We are trying to be the lower-risk custom path when cheap apps do not fit and enterprise platforms are too much. Approved setup can be split across the build while monthly support stays predictable.

The goal is simple: price above basic SaaS because the work is custom, but package the first step so the monthly decision feels closer to a serious software subscription than a traditional open-ended agency project.

2026 Appreciation Discounts

2026 USA 250 Birthday Special

10% off eligible DID service fees

Available for new approved projects and support agreements signed by December 31, 2026.

Veteran and disability-owned businesses

Additional 5% off eligible DID service fees

Veteran-owned and disability-owned businesses can stack this with the USA 250 special.

Discounts may stack up to 15% off eligible DID service fees. Hosting, software licenses, SMS, AI usage, taxes, data licenses, and other pass-through vendor costs stay separate.

We are not trying to beat every cheap subscription. We are trying to beat the total cost of forcing a local business into software that does not match how it works.

Not the cheapest app

A generic monthly tool can be cheaper when your process already fits it. We say that plainly.

Less than a full custom build

Most custom software projects start far above these entry offers. We narrow the first scope so a local buyer can start.

Premium because it fits

The value is the mapping, setup, integration, review controls, and local support around the way the work really happens.

Custom Bridge Plans

Starter Bridge

$750 activation + $399/mo

A narrow custom workflow that feels closer to SaaS: contractor follow-up, a training tracker, a simple evidence vault, or one intake flow.

Growth Bridge

$1,500 activation + $699/mo

Best for teams that need several workflow steps, light integrations, a dashboard, a portal, or staff-facing automation.

Regulated Bridge

$3,000 activation + $1,250/mo

For legal, healthcare, cyber, manufacturing, and audit-sensitive work where access controls, review steps, and evidence matter.

Bridge plans assume a 36-month support agreement. If the agreement ends early, the unpaid setup balance becomes due. Third-party software, hosting, SMS, and AI usage stay separate.

Market Price Check

Basic subscriptions

Often about $30-$550/month before extra users, add-ons, setup time, and process gaps.

Best when a business needs its calls, quotes, files, evidence, approvals, and follow-up connected around the way it already works.

Custom agencies

Public software-project guides commonly place small custom builds in the $10k-$50k+ range, with U.S. senior work often $120-$250+/hr.

DID uses fixed entry offers and smaller first scopes so a local team can prove the workflow before approving a larger build.

Enterprise platforms

QMS, field-service, SOC 2, GRC, and vCISO paths can quickly reach the low tens of thousands once onboarding and support are included.

DID is the bridge: more tailored than a cheap app, far less commitment than buying enterprise software before the team is ready.

Entry audit credit

For many local buyers, a workflow audit can be credited toward the first build when the implementation is approved within 30 days.

Setup split

Approved setup can be billed by milestone or spread over 3-12 months depending on region, scope, risk, and monthly support.

3-year partner price

A 36-month support agreement can earn a 10-12% managed-support discount, price-lock normal support rates, and reduce upfront strain.

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Market Fit

Is This a Fit for Your Business?

What Franklin runs on

A county seat of 26,000 with a courthouse square, a liberal arts college of about 966 students, the county largest employer in Johnson Memorial Health, and named manufacturing operations including Toyota, NSK, KYB and Mitsubishi.

The professional and institutional buyers here are not short of process. They are short of visibility — a way to see what is outstanding across a caseload, an intake, or a referral list without opening forty files.

Where most people start

A single bounded build for most downtown firms; a staged programme where a college or clinic is involved.

Legal, student and clinical records sit at the tighter tier from the start. The approval trail is not an add-on there; it is the reason the system is allowed to exist.

When you do not need us

Practice management, student information systems and electronic health records are established products with real compliance work behind them. We do not replace them and will say so plainly.

We fit in the gaps those products leave — intake before the record exists, chasing between systems, and the reporting that currently comes out of somebody exporting to a spreadsheet every Friday.

What we would take on first here

  • Conflict-checked intake and outstanding-document chasing for firms working the courthouse square
  • Enrolment file completion and credential records on a term calendar
  • Referral acknowledgement and clinical diary handling with a clinician on every clinical decision
  • Vendor and event coordination for the downtown brick-street district

Questions from Franklin owners

Straight answers about working with us here

Court deadlines are absolute. What happens if your system is wrong about one?

It is not allowed to be the authority on one. We do not build systems that calculate or assert a filing date, because the consequence of a bug there is somebody losing a right. What we build tracks what has been requested and received, shows what is outstanding, and reminds a person. The date comes from your practice management software and your knowledge, and it stays there.

Half our year is students. Does anything you build still earn its keep in July?

It should, and we design for that explicitly. A system that only works in August is half a system. For a business on a college calendar the summer job is usually the one nobody has time for in term — cleaning up records, chasing the applications that went quiet, and getting next year set up. That work is where the same tool pays for itself in the quiet months.

Would the college or the hospital be your client, or is this aimed at small firms?

Both, but differently. A small firm on the square wants one bounded thing built and finished. An institution has procurement, security review and an existing records system, so the work is narrower and slower and usually sits alongside what they already run. We are honest about which of those we are quoting.

Twenty years of client files are in cabinets and an old server. What happens to them?

They stay yours, and they stay readable. We do not take custody of an archive as a condition of working with you, and we do not convert anything into a format only we can open. If we bring old records into a new system, you get the export path in writing at the same time — the point is that leaving us is a Tuesday afternoon, not a negotiation.

Is putting AI anywhere near a patient referral a good idea?

Near it, yes. In it, no. Reading a referral to work out whether it is orthopaedic or cardiology, and flagging any wording that sounds urgent so a human sees it immediately, is a sound use and it shortens a queue. Deciding priority, giving advice, or replying to a patient is not, and there is no version of this we would build that does. The clinician stays the clinician.

We are two blocks from the square with three staff. What size project is realistic?

A small one, and we will quote it as a small one rather than talking you upward. Fixing intake so a conflict check happens before a consultation is booked is a genuine project on its own. So is a chase list that actually reflects what is outstanding. We would rather do that well and be asked back than start with something that needs a year.

Everything we use came from a different vendor. Will you insist we consolidate?

No. Consolidation projects are where small firms lose eighteen months. Your case management, your accounting and your document store can stay exactly where they are. Our work is usually the connective piece between two of them, and quite often the recommendation is to buy nothing and change one process instead.

How do we judge whether it made a difference?

One agreed number, chosen before we build and measurable from what you already record. For a firm that is normally the gap between requesting a document and getting it. For a practice it is days from referral to an appointment offered. You read it, not us, and if it has not shifted after two months the honest conversation is ours to start.

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Work With Our Team

Let’s fix one thing first in Franklin

Start with the one handoff that costs you the most. We scope it for a fixed price, build it, and show you it works before anyone talks about a bigger system.

Start with one workflow