Software development · Detroit, MI
Software development for Detroit companies
The software your business needs keeps slipping down the roadmap because every engineer you have is keeping an older system alive. We build the replacement beside the old one, integrated with the ERP and EDI it depends on, and hand it over with tests your team can keep running. Detroit's tier-one and tier-two suppliers in Southfield and Livonia live with that, as do the auto lenders and logistics firms around them.
Founded
2017, and still independent
Bench
115+ engineers, 80 Databricks-certified
Experience
Fifteen years average, per engineer
Serving
Detroit, Ann Arbor, Dearborn, Troy
If you run a parts supplier in Troy or Auburn Hills, a captive finance arm downtown or a mobility startup at Michigan Central in Corktown, your data estate was probably designed for a different decade and your AI question arrives on top of it. Automotive finance is where most of our published work started, so that inheritance is familiar ground.
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What software development covers
Web applications
Applications built to be changed safely years after the original team has moved on. That means tests that mean something, seams where the business logic can move, and a deployment nobody is afraid of.
Mobile applications
iOS and Android, built as products rather than as ports. The maintenance story is decided at the start, while it is still cheap.
APIs and integration
The seams between systems, done once and properly. Most of the expensive failures we are called into are integration failures wearing another name.
Data platforms
The layer underneath the application, on Databricks, Azure, AWS or Google Cloud. If the reporting and the application disagree, the platform is the reason.
Modernisation of what exists
Often the work arrives as something already built that has become hard to change. We would rather read it and tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping than sell a rewrite you may not need.
Durable, auditable workflows
Processes that take days, call several systems and must never half-complete. Getting that right is a different discipline from getting a request handler right, and it is where we spend most of our time.
App development in Detroit
Automotive finance and connected-vehicle apps are the pattern here: a dealer's origination app, a borrower's servicing app, a field agent's repossession handset. Every one is a client of a governed workflow, and that is how we build them.
Mobile app developmentDynamics 365 consultants in Detroit
Tier 2 and tier 3 automotive suppliers around Detroit run Dynamics 365 Business Central for production orders, EDI with the OEMs and lot traceability. We implement and extend it, connect it to shop-floor and EDI systems, and automate the release and shipping steps with Power Automate.
A supplier is audited against contracts it didn't write
Detroit's carmakers sit within a short drive of each other, GM downtown, Ford in Dearborn and Stellantis in Auburn Hills, and the suppliers in Troy, Southfield and Livonia sell to all three and often to the German makers too. Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes-Benz ask for a TISAX assessment before they share prototype or project data, so a tier-two supplier is audited against a standard it never negotiated.
Most suppliers treat the assessment as a document exercise, with policies written the month before the auditor arrives. Then the policies describe access the systems can't enforce. We'd rather build the controls into the software itself, with access set per role, a change history that can be shown on request and a dependency list you can account for, so the assessment reads what's already true.
We map where customer data lands before anything else, from EDI feeds and engineering drawings to quality records, and who can read each. That map sets the order of work. The system holding an OEM's prototype data gets its access model first, even when a different system is the one everyone complains about.
Clients we have done this for
Auto lenders and captive finance arms run processes that can't stop halfway, and repossession is a legally sensitive one. This study shows that process rebuilt on Temporal, so every step is recoverable and the full history of what happened is there afterwards.
Automotive / Fintech
Location Services
A wrongful repossession, and the penalty that follows, can start with one API call nobody saw fail. Location Services' software sometimes didn't tell a vendor an assignment was closed, and nothing retried the call. Our senior engineers rebuilt that process as a durable workflow on Temporal and put it into production, so every close retries on its own, alerts the operations team when retries run out, and keeps a full history.
How an engagement runs
01
A technical conversation
Not a sales call. An engineer, asking what you are trying to do, what has been tried and what it will actually take. Where the work needs them, product and design people join the same conversation.
02
Two weeks, fixed fee
A short assessment ending in a written plan with a scope, a sequence and a number. You own the document whether or not you carry on with us.
03
Build with your team in the repo
Senior throughout, and no pyramid with one architect over a floor of juniors. The person in your standup is the person writing the code.
04
Run it
We stay on the pager. Nobody designs a fragile thing they will personally be woken by, which is most of why this arrangement produces different software.
Two weeks, fixed fee, and a written plan whether or not you build it with us.
Tell an engineer what you want to build
A senior engineer reads it and replies within one business day, usually with the questions that decide the first two weeks.
Around Detroit
Southfield .NET nights and Ann Arbor Python
The Michigan .NET Users Group meets in person on the third Wednesday of most months at Epitec's offices in Southfield, with a speaker each time and time to talk afterwards. Michigan Python holds hybrid talks on the first Thursday at Cahoots in Ann Arbor. GDG Detroit, which often meets at Wayne State's College of Engineering, brings web, Firebase and Google Cloud sessions to Michigan DevFest downtown.
If your dealer system or supplier portal is .NET and SQL Server, written by people who've since left, the Southfield room is where that stack gets discussed every month by people who still maintain it. The usual mistake with such systems is the big-bang rewrite. Replacing one piece at a time, beside the running system, keeps parts shipping while the old code retires, and it lets you stop halfway if the business changes its mind.
The Detroit-Warren-Dearborn metro area. Michigan: Lapeer, Livingston, Macomb, Oakland, St. Clair and Wayne counties.
Lighter shape: the city itself. Dot: downtown. County boundaries from the US Census Bureau, 2023.
User group · Monthly, usually the third Wednesday evening
Michigan .NET Users Group (MI.NET)
If your supplier portal or dealer system is .NET, the third-Wednesday talks at Epitec in Southfield put you among developers maintaining the same kind of code.
Volunteer organisers. Epitec, 26555 Evergreen Rd, Suite 1700, Southfield.
User group · Monthly, usually the first Thursday evening
Michigan Python
Hybrid talks at Cahoots in Ann Arbor mean an engineer in Troy can follow online first and decide later whether the drive west is worth it.
Volunteer organisers. Cahoots, 206 E Huron St, Ann Arbor, also online.
Conference · 13 to 14 November 2026
Michigan DevFest + AI Hackathon 2026
Saturday's tracks run from Android and Flutter to web, Firebase and Google Cloud, so a whole product team can split up and cover its own stack.
GDG Detroit and neighbouring Google Developer Groups, with Compass Detroit. Little Caesars headquarters, 2125 Woodward Ave, Downtown Detroit.
User group · Several events a year
GDG Detroit (Detroit Google Developer Group)
Summits and hackathons through the year make GDG Detroit the easiest standing group for a developer who has just joined a team in the region.
Google Developer Groups volunteers. Rotates; often Wayne State College of Engineering, 5050 Anthony Wayne Dr.
Each listing was checked on its organiser's own page on 12 October 2026. Dates and venues move, so the link is the source.
FAQ
Software development in Detroit: common questions
Do you work with Detroit companies?
Yes, and with companies across the United States. Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so we are two hours behind you from November to March and three hours behind from March to November. That leaves most of your afternoon overlapping our morning, which is usually enough.
Do you have an office in Detroit?
The office is in Gilbert, Arizona, with teams in Amsterdam, Dnipro and Hyderabad. Delivery is remote or hybrid, and we travel for discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build.
Can you meet OEM cybersecurity requirements as a supplier?
We build to what those clauses require, which is controlled access, a demonstrable change history and a software supply chain you can account for. Automotive finance and mobility data is the largest concentration in our published work, so the requirements are familiar rather than novel.
What kinds of custom software do you build?
Web applications, mobile applications, APIs and the data platforms underneath them. The work we do best is the sort that has to be governed and auditable, where a wrong write is expensive and somebody has to be able to explain afterwards what changed and why.
Do you take over an existing codebase?
Often, yes. A good part of the work arrives as something already built that has become hard to change. We would rather read it and tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping than sell you a rewrite you may not need.
Where to go deeper
Web application development
Applications that hold up on the thousandth day
Mobile application development
iOS and Android, built to be maintained
Ecommerce development
The storefront and the ERP behind it
APIs and integration
The seams between systems, done once
Published work
Named clients and checkable outcomes
Also in Detroit
What else we build for Detroit companies.
AI consulting and development in Detroit
Your AI pilot works in the demo, and nobody on the roadmap has the engineers to put it into production beside the systems it reads.
Databricks consulting in Detroit
A migration off an on-premises warehouse that stalled halfway leaves two copies of every table and an auditor asking which one is true.
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