West Lafayette, IN · Tippecanoe County
AI Development in West Lafayette IN for a City Built Around Purdue
For landlords, research park companies, professional firms and university vendors working against a campus calendar and a campus purchasing system.
Three settlements — Chauncey, Oakwood and Kingston — became one town in 1888, and 152 electors signed the petition that put West Lafayette on the map under that name. Purdue had been on the bluff since 1869. Everything since has grown around the university rather than beside it: the campus was not even formally inside the city limits until an annexation in 2013.
The numbers are unusual for a place this size. Purdue employs somewhere around 12,000 people and teaches more than 40,000 students, which makes the median age in town 21.7 years and West Lafayette the most densely populated city in Indiana. A third of the housing stock changes hands in August, most of it in the high-rises stacked along Chauncey Avenue and the blocks either side of West State Street. Then there is the Purdue Research Park — 725 acres opened in 1961, generally called the largest university-affiliated research park in the country, with close to 200 companies and better than 3,000 jobs inside it. It is not an abstraction on a map: it is Kent Avenue, where the contract labs and the diagnostics and agricultural science firms sit end to end, Win Hentschel Boulevard with the Kurz Purdue Technology Center and the C-SPAN Archives on it, and Innovation Place, where Cook Biotech is.
The rest of the city is easier to picture and just as particular. The Levee at the bottom of East State Street, where Wabash Landing faces the river. Von's Books and the shopfronts running up West State Street into the Village. Triple XXX up on Salisbury. The whole ordinary commercial run of Sagamore Parkway West — banks, dentists, hairdressers, hardware, half the town's everyday trade. Medical offices out on Cumberland Avenue and Yeager Road. Then the ground drops away west past Klondike Road, where there is a grain elevator, a township fire department and farmland, and south past the airport on Aviation Drive to Fort Ouiatenon on the river road.
What that adds up to for a small business owner here is two things nobody else in Indiana has to deal with at once. Your customers may be twenty years old and living in Hyderabad when they sign a lease on Chauncey Avenue. And your biggest single account may be a university with a supplier registration process, a purchase order number and a department that has never met your invoice. We build the ordinary systems that make both of those survivable.
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.
- 01We learn how your business actually works — a real week, not the version on paper.
- 02We find where the most is being lost — usually one specific handoff.
- 03We build the smallest thing that fixes it — one workflow, fixed price, a result you can see.
- 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.
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Let’s fix one thing first in West Lafayette
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