Two people, and you will talk to both of us.
Modus is Dean Lulani and Tucker Romagnoli. We are both in New York, we both build, and whoever scopes your project is the one who ships it and answers the phone afterwards.
Dean works in financial administration for a staffing company. Payroll runs, reconciliation, compliance reporting. He spent long enough watching the same hours vanish into the same tasks every week to know precisely which of them a computer should have been doing all along.
Tucker trained as a mechanical engineer and took a long detour into writing software that makes tedious things take less time. He built the first version of the invoice tool on this site to settle an argument about how long it would take.
Between us that covers both halves of the problem. One person who has actually lived in a back office, and one who can build the thing that fixes it — with nobody in the middle, which is rather the point.
How we work
- Plain English, including in the quote. If a sentence in a scope document needs a glossary, the sentence is wrong. You should be able to read what we are going to build and recognise your own business in it.
- Boring technology on purpose. A tool that still runs in five years is worth more than a clever one that falls over at month-end. We would rather ship something dull that works every morning at six.
- Sometimes we tell you not to build it. A few processes should stay manual, and some problems are better fixed by changing the process than by writing software. The audit is free so that the advice can afford to be honest.
- Standalone builds are yours outright. Code and documentation in your hands. Continuous systems are licensed while the subscription runs, which we would rather say here than bury in a footnote later.
- You see it working early. Working software in the first week or two, not a deck describing it. Feedback is cheap to act on at that stage and expensive later.
Nobody wakes up wanting more software
They want the invoice out the door and the numbers to be right without anyone staying late for it. Software is just the cheapest way we know to get there.