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Need a Fractional CTO?

A fractional CTO is a senior technology leader who works with you a day or two a month instead of five days a week — the same responsibility for what gets built and what it costs, without a six-figure hire you can't yet justify.

Built for software teams of one to five — where everyone writes code, nobody has time to think three years out, and there is no one senior to argue with.

Bring AI into your business and gain productivity

How it works, in five steps
  1. You buy days, not headcount A set number of days each month on a rolling agreement. No salary, no equity, no severance — and you can stop the month it stops paying for itself.
  2. We start with what you've already built Your codebase, your data model, your deploy, your backlog. Not to audit you — to know it well enough to be useful in week two instead of month three.
  3. We work out where AI actually belongs Which parts of your build it should touch and which it should never touch; where it buys real speed and where it quietly costs you quality. Then the same question for your product: what customers will pay for, and what is just a demo.
  4. You get a senior opinion, on the record Build or buy, rewrite or extend, what to say no to, what will hurt in two years. Being the only technical person in the room is the hardest part of running a small software company — this is the part that fixes it.
  5. We plan our own exit from day one Every decision written down so it outlives the engagement. Hand over when you're ready, or keep us at a day a month.

Honest fit: this is built for teams of one to five developers. If you have twenty programmers and a VP of Engineering, you don't need us. If you haven't written the software yet, you need a developer before you need a CTO. We'll tell you so on the call rather than sell you a retainer.

That's the whole model. If it sounds like what you're missing, the next step is a conversation — not a proposal.

Set up a 30-minute call

Start with a 30-minute call

Tell us where to reach you. We'll come back with times and a short list of what we'd want to look at first.

Goes to a person, not a mailing list. No newsletter, no drip sequence. Reply inside one business day.

45+

Years developing

Deep expertise

Forty-five years writing business software, converting applications to modern, profitable systems.

A fractional CTO engagement here means you work with me directly — the same person who reads your schema, sits in your vendor calls, and signs off on what ships.

Databases & AI

  • PostgreSQL
  • MS SQL Server
  • Database administration
  • AI integration

Industries

  • Manufacturing
  • Medical
  • 3rd-party billing
  • Government contracts
  • Insurance

Built to comply with

  • SOC 2
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • NIST
  • ISO 27001

wxPerts LLC · Hideaway, Texas

Own your software again.

Independent developers and small businesses: your applications and your data are locked inside platforms you don't control — WINDEV, Clarion, VB6, HFSQL. We move them onto open standards you own: modern web front ends, standard SQL, documented APIs, and AI that can finally read your data.

How it works

Or run it yourself · The product

The platform we built to do this work — now available to your team. Six phases from design to release with a gate at every one. AI writes the code; the scope decides what it's allowed to write.

  • Scope-first specsNothing gets built without a scope. The AI can't wander off the plan.
  • Six-phase lifecycleDesign → Implementation → QA → Human Testing → Beta → Release, each with an exit gate.
  • No AI vendor lock-inSwap providers without rewriting your workflow. The point of the whole company, applied to itself.
  • Business tools includedKanban board, time tracking, and PDF invoicing in the same place as the work.
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45+Years building business software
18+Years in the WINDEV / HFSQL ecosystem
100%Production-ready systems, never prototypes
ZeroNew lock-in — you own everything we build

The problem

Someone else's platform, your business.

The tooling that built your company is now the thing limiting it. Three ways that shows up.

What we do for you

Two ways we get you out.

Take the whole journey or one piece of it. Every engagement has fixed scope, clear deliverables, and stands on its own.

01 — Flagship service

Legacy Conversions

We rebuild your legacy desktop application as a modern web app — parsing the original source so nothing is lost in translation. Your screens, your business rules, your data model, carried across deliberately rather than guessed at. What you get back is a React + Tailwind codebase on a standard SQL database that any developer can maintain.

  • From WINDEV / WEBDEV
  • From Clarion
  • From Visual Basic 6

You have something else? Let us look at it — we may be able to automate a conversion for it.

Data Liberation HFSQL → PostgreSQL, MS SQL, or MySQL. Existing apps keep running against the new backend.
Open API Layer A secure REST API over your liberated data, so every modern tool can read and write it.
AI / MCP Integration An MCP server connecting AI directly to your database. Ask in plain language, get answers.
Parity Audit Every difference from the original classified: regression, deliberate change, or improvement.

Explore legacy conversions

02 — Advisory

Consulting & Database Services

Sometimes you don't need a rebuild — you need someone who has seen this before to tell you what's actually wrong. Senior-level review of the systems you already run, with findings ranked by what will hurt you first.

Database audit Schema and referential integrity, data health, index strategy, bloat and maintenance.
Architecture & code review Correctness, security, performance, and maintainability — with a remediation order.
Migration assessment What a move off your current platform would actually cost, before you commit to it.

Talk to us about an audit

What becomes possible

Ask your business anything.

Once your data speaks a standard language, this stops being a roadmap item and starts being Tuesday.

yourcompany-data — AI console
You
Which customers are most at risk of churning?
AI
12 accounts flagged. Sorted by risk score, with a recommended action for each.
You
Are there seasonal patterns in our support requests?
AI
Yes — Q1 spikes 40%, driven by onboarding. Staffing recommendation attached.
You
Show me the top 10 products by revenue growth this quarter.
AI
Top 10 ranked with trend data. Three have anomalies worth reviewing.

In development

What we're building next.

Two products in active development. Tell us if either is something you need — early conversations shape what ships.

YappChatt

In progress

Chat built for working alongside AI agents. Private rooms where a Claude agent is a participant, not a sidebar — connect one to a room, and it reads, replies, and takes direction from anyone there. We use it to drive live coding sessions from a phone.

Connect Claude · per-room revocable tokens · real-time streaming

wxHub

In progress

One front door for every application your company runs. Employees sign in once and see exactly the apps, tools, documents and services they're cleared to use — a WEBDEV page from 2009, a desktop executable with no URL, a PDF, and a third-party ERP, all in the same list. Most useful mid-modernization: as each system gets converted, the front door never changes for the people using it.

Single sign-on · permission-gated catalog · health & ownership per app

Why wxPerts

We built the tools because no one else had.

Andy Stapleton

Who you'd be working with

Andy Stapleton

Founder · wxPerts LLC · Hideaway, Texas

Forty-five years writing business software, converting applications to modern, profitable systems. A fractional CTO engagement here means you work with me directly — the same person who reads your schema, sits in your vendor calls, and signs off on what ships.

We are on the threshold of new ways of doing business and growth. Don't get left behind, or replaced. We can work together to bring the experience earned and AI to increase your growth.

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6

Phase lifecycle

Battle-tested process

Design, implementation, QA, human testing, beta, release. Fixed scope, clear gates, no surprises.

100%

Production-ready

Fast & clean

Production-quality systems, not prototypes. Your team can maintain and extend everything we build.

Zero

Lock-in

Your data, your control

Open standards, standard databases, documented APIs. When we're done, you own it all.

Get started

Ready to unlock your data?

Schedule a free discovery call. We'll assess your situation, outline what's possible, and give you a clear roadmap — no obligation.

Email
sales@wxperts.com
Phone
(903) 636-7543
Office
637 Northgate DR
Hideaway, TX 75771