Empowering small businesses with simple, scalable tech.
We automate and optimize the manual processes eating your team's time — custom software, integrations, and infrastructure built to be easy to maintain and ready to grow with you.
- No agency overhead
- Plain-English explanations
- Maintainable solutions
You shouldn't be the bottleneck for your own business.
Running a small business means wearing every hat — and getting stuck managing repetitive tasks that only one person knows how to do. I work with you to automate and optimize those manual processes so your team can focus on what matters. The systems I build are designed to be easy to maintain, so you're not constantly updating or fixing them.
Automate time-consuming tasks
Replace repetitive workflows with systems that just run — freeing the people on your team for the work only humans can do.
Custom applications built for your needs
Need a phone or web app? I'll build a simple, powerful solution tailored to your business — not a one-size-fits-all SaaS that almost fits.
Optimized network & infrastructure
Tighten up your network, hosting, and deployments so they scale with the business — instead of becoming the next emergency.
What we're usually asked for
Most engagements look like one of these. Pricing is hourly with a clear estimate up front; longer relationships move to a retainer.
Custom web apps
Internal portals, dashboards, customer tools — wired into the data and workflows you already have.
Learn more →Integration & automation
Connecting CRMs, accounting, third-party APIs. Replace the spreadsheet handoff with something that just runs.
Learn more →Data aggregation & cleansing
Pulling, normalizing, and de-duplicating data from messy sources into something you can act on.
Learn more →Hosting & DevOps
Server setup, backups, deployments, SSL — handled so you can stop thinking about it.
Learn more →From "this is killing us" to running on autopilot
A short, practical engagement model — no committee meetings, no bloated discovery decks.
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Understand
We start by sitting in your business — the people, the workflows, the spreadsheet someone-named-Tracy keeps fixing every Monday. Then we name the actual problem.
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Design & build
You get a clear scope and an estimate. We build in small increments you can see and steer, not a black-box six-month project.
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Implement & support
We deploy, train your team, and stay on for the inevitable adjustments. The system is yours — but if it breaks, we get the page.
What clients tell us, in their own words
Strategic engineering partner
“Joey delivered what you needed, not what we ask for. His business sense and engineering background have helped ARID optimize our tech stack to seamlessly integrate across several data and AI platforms. He was instrumental in the early days of ARID.”
Set it, forget it
“Joey stepped in and revamped our daily business flow. He migrated us to our own server, automated the daily file generation, and stays on top of it whenever our customer's format changes. Years in, I don't think about our infrastructure anymore — which is exactly what I wanted.”
Effectively our engineering team
“Joey reworked the architecture our operation runs on including the workflow tools my team uses every day. He treats our tech stack like an engineer who owns it.”
Trusted by
Real-estate investment
Wholesale label manufacturing
Industrial-equipment auctions
Hi, I'm Joey Harrington.
I run Tech Efficient LLC — a small consulting practice based in Phoenix, Arizona, where I've spent the last decade-plus building software for companies that needed real engineering but didn't want the headcount, the retainer, or the agency Powerpoints that come with it.
The work starts with a clear, frustrating problem and ends with a system the team actually owns and can maintain. More about how I work →
From the blog
Pieces I write up while building — practical guides on the unglamorous parts of running a small tech business.
Automatic Tweets on Twitter
This article provides an overview for automation within Twitter, with a focus on automatic Tweets.
Mobile DevelopmentGetting Started Creating a Mobile App + Website
This article provides an overview for what accounts you’ll need and links to step-by-step instructions to create a mobile app and website.
Mobile DevelopmentUpload Missing dSYMs for iOS On Firebase Crashlytics
This article provides step-by-step instructions for addressing missing dSYMs on Firebase Crashlytics for iOS apps.
Ready to make your business more efficient?
Tell me what you're trying to fix — I'll usually reply within a day.