Business systems / custom software
Build applications around the way your business operates, extending existing software where it fits and developing custom systems where it doesn't.
Explore business systemsHands-on engineering, led by the principals
We build software, data, automation, and AI systems for complex business problems.
Radix is a small, senior engineering consultancy for operational problems that off-the-shelf software doesn't solve. You work directly with Robert Culver and Ben Johnson, who design and build the systems themselves.
The people you meet are the people who do the work.
Operating modelPeople and processSystems and data
RadixUseful softwareTrusted decisionsOperating leverage
Start with the problem
Have a systems problem?
When your business outgrows its software or processes, the next step may need more than configuration. Radix brings hands-on engineering without a large consulting engagement.
Start by talking through the problem with Robert or Ben.
Talk with a principalSome of the problems we can help with:
- Workflows held together by spreadsheets or manual reconciliation.
- Systems that don't share data cleanly.
- Reporting that takes substantial manual work.
- Custom software that has become difficult to maintain.
- Opportunities for automation or AI within an existing business process.
- Operational data that isn't helping people make decisions.
What we deliver
Build what the business needs.
Start with the workflow. Choose existing software, integration, custom software, data engineering, automation, or AI to fit the problem.
Data & integration
Connect systems, model operational data, and build reliable reporting so people can work from consistent information.
Explore data & integrationAutomation & AI
Automate work within existing business processes. Use AI to interpret information or coordinate tasks where it helps, with permissions, business rules, and human review built in.
Explore automation & AIHow we work
Understand the operation. Build the solution.
Robert and Ben stay with the work from the first conversation through design, implementation, and deployment.
Understand
Understand the business problem, workflow, systems, and constraints.
Design
Determine the simplest appropriate technical solution.
Build
Implement and deploy the solution with you.
Featured case study / Standard Orchid
We build the systems we talk about.
When the software didn’t fit their own business, Robert and Ben built a system that did.
At Standard Orchid, their tissue-culture laboratory, they built Culture Manager to connect production, inventory, customer commitments, and fulfillment across thousands of flasks and months-long growing cycles.
The result: hours saved per material submission, with material mix-ups and labeling errors reduced to zero in their operation. That firsthand responsibility shapes how they approach every Radix engagement.
Read the Standard Orchid case studySystems in practice
Evidence is more useful than promises.
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Applied AI · Finance · Reporting · Security
Governed answers over enterprise finance data
A permission-aware finance assistant that turns ordinary-language questions into typed, deterministic analysis while retaining the user's existing data authority.
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Product · Inventory · Integration · Commerce
One operating model across commerce channels
Verdora brings product, inventory, order, and channel operations together across eBay, Squarespace, Shopify, and Etsy.
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Standard Orchid · Operations · Traceability
When the business doesn’t fit the software
Building Culture Manager for our own laboratory saved hours per material submission and reduced material mix-ups and labeling errors to zero in our operation.
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Reporting · Analytics · Data architecture · Operations
Reporting designed around the decision
Financial, operational, and healthcare reporting systems built around governed data, shared definitions, and the working decisions people need to make.
Products as proof
We build and operate software—not just recommendations.
Radix products began with real operating problems. They demonstrate the same method we bring to client work: understand the domain, model it carefully, connect the surrounding systems, and build for continued use.
ProductsInventoryOrders
Active channels4
Operating modelOne
eBayConnected
SquarespaceConnected
ShopifyConnected
EtsyConnected
Multichannel order and inventory management
Inventory control and commerce integrations for eBay, Squarespace, Shopify, and Etsy.
Explore VerdoraCustomer commitment
MaterialObservationLocation
ProductionInventoryFulfillment
Traceable lifecycle
Laboratory operations from intake through fulfillment
Specialized software for tissue-culture customers, materials, production, inventory, locations, billing, and shipping.
Explore Culture ManagerThe practice
Work directly with Robert and Ben.
Robert Culver and Ben Johnson combine software and data engineering with firsthand experience running a business.
They remain responsible for the architecture and engineering, working directly with the people who will use the system.
Meet the principalsStart with the problem
Talk through the problem with us.
Tell Robert or Ben where the work gets stuck and what needs to change. Start with the business problem; you do not need a technical brief.
Talk with a principal