Watson Tech

Prices you can read before you call.

Most software shops make you sit through a discovery call to hear a number. Here are mine. Every project still gets a written quote before work starts, so the figure you agree to is the figure you pay.

One house rule: any discount gets stated on the invoice against the listed rate. You always know what a deal saved you.

-- hourly

Hourly work

Software development

$125 / hr

Coding, integrations, and changes to existing systems. Billed in half-hour increments with an estimate up front.

Database administration and tuning

$150 / hr

SQL Server and PostgreSQL. Slow queries made fast, indexes fixed, migrations run, backups and disaster recovery that actually restore.

Emergency response

$225 / hr

Production down or data on the line, outside business hours. You call, I answer.

-- project builds

Project builds

Business website with payments

from $2,500

A custom site with a store or booking built in, Square or Stripe checkout, live on your own domain.

Custom business application

from $5,000

Scoped from a written spec. Data model, user roles, reporting, deployment, documentation, and training for your staff.

Compliance-grade application

from $15,000

Systems that hold protected health information, financial records, or anything an auditor will ask about. Encryption, role-scoped access, tamper-evident audit logging, and a test suite that proves it.

Hosting and care plan

$150 / mo

Keeps a delivered application alive. Cloud hosting, data storage, nightly backups, security patches, and email support.

-- products

Products

-- recovery housing management system

Run your recovery housing operation from one place.

For sober living homes, halfway houses, transitional housing, and recovery residences of any size. Built for operators, not treatment-center billing departments. HHMS tracks the work a house manager actually does every day, whether you run one house or ten.

  • Beds, rooms, and occupancy across every house, with waitlists and holds
  • Rent billing, payment plans, late fees, and QuickBooks export
  • Drug test scheduling with provably random draws
  • Curfew, rounds, and incident tracking with escalation
  • Resident records with encrypted SSNs and government IDs
  • A tamper-evident audit log you can hand to an inspector
  • Six staff roles, each seeing only the houses they manage
$300per operator, per month
$1,500one-time onboarding, data load, and staff training

Hosting, storage, backups, updates, and support included. Cancel with 30 days' notice and take a full export of your data with you.

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-- read aloud for windows

Your computer can read anything on your screen out loud.

Highlight text in any program, hit Ctrl+Alt+R, and it starts reading. A PDF, an email, an error message in a terminal. Uses the speech engine already inside Windows, so nothing leaves your machine and it works with the wifi off.

  • Works system-wide from a tray hotkey, in any application
  • Desktop app with sentence highlighting and save to WAV
  • Chrome extension and a File Explorer right-click menu
  • No accounts, no API keys, no network calls
Freeopen source, use it forever

Built and maintained by Watson Tech. Source, releases, and install instructions on GitHub.

Get it on GitHub
-- terms

Terms

Invoices are Net 14, payable by card through Square or by ACH. Past-due balances accrue a 1.5% monthly late fee.

Delivered work carries a 30-day warranty. Defects in that window get fixed at no charge.

Work beyond an agreed scope is quoted in writing before it begins. No surprise line items.

-- next step

Know what you need? Let's put a number on it.

Describe the project or the problem and you'll get a written quote against the rates above. Database work can start with a free health check instead.