Custom applications
Complete business systems with customers, scheduling, inventory, work orders, and reporting, built around your workflow.
Rob Cosgrove · Software designer & technical project leader
Decades of experience.
Modern solutions.
Custom applications, operational systems, workflow automation, and legacy modernization, designed around the way your business actually works.
For more than 40 years, I've designed, built, and delivered software that solves real business problems. I've led development teams, managed programmers and contractors, directed complex projects, and stayed hands-on from requirements and architecture through deployment and support. My strengths are translating business requirements into software designs, directing development work, and getting projects delivered. Available for remote technical project management, software design, business systems analysis, and implementation leadership contracts. Recruiter profile and resumes →
01Complete business systems
02Workflow automation
03Data & integrations
04Practical AI
What I build
Software that earns its place in your business.
I turn messy operational problems into useful software, from understanding the business and designing the database through development and deployment.
Applied AI
Research, document analysis, and decision support where AI adds practical value to the application.
Modernization & integration
Connect old and new systems, move data, and automate repetitive work while preserving what still works.
Database applications
Organize business information in one place, with clear reports and dashboards that help people act.
Examples of my work
Complete applications.
Concrete capabilities.
These projects show the kinds of business problems I can turn into working applications. Each brings together data, workflows, and a clear purpose.
AI-assisted dispute management
FeudFix
Helps consumers organize a complaint, research company policies, and plan their next steps. I built intake, evidence handling, research, correspondence, and case-tracking workflows.
Field service operations
SVCpro
Brings work orders, scheduling, technician assignments, and billing readiness into one system. This example shows how I turn an operational workflow into an integrated business application.
Legacy-to-cloud integration
LegacyBridge
Connects a simulated legacy inventory system with a modern business application. I built the demonstration around customer data, inventory checks, order entry, and synchronization.
Client documents and review
ClientVault
Organizes document requests, client submissions, review status, and follow-up in one workspace. This example shows how I connect information management with a practical client-service workflow.
Automotive marketplace monitoring
CarMonitor
Interactive vehicle-search prototype with make, model, year, and price filters, direct advertisement links, related vehicle images, and a five-minute monitoring session that checks for newly discovered listings every 60 seconds. Availability is not independently verified.
Public interactive demoTry CarMonitor ↗
The experience behind the work
Business understanding.
Built over decades.
I'm Rob Cosgrove. I founded Remote Backup Systems in 1985 and ran it until 2022. Building and operating a commercial software company meant working with customers, supporting real systems, and making software useful enough for people to pay for.
40+ years
Building business software, from the microcomputer era to modern web applications.
37 years
Founding and running a commercial software company, Remote Backup Systems.
From problem to deployment
Business analysis, application architecture, databases, development, and integration.
Modern tools
I use AI coding tools to build complete applications and bring working versions to clients sooner.
A practical approach
Understand first.
Build what matters.
The goal is not more software. It is a better way to work. Every engagement starts with the problem, the people, and the outcome. I turn that understanding into a working version you can try, then improve it with your feedback.
Tell me what needs fixing →- ListenUnderstand the work, the friction, and the people involved.
- SimplifyFind the smallest clear solution that creates meaningful value.
- BuildBuild a working version early so you can try it and give concrete feedback.
- ImproveLearn from real use and evolve where it makes a difference.