# Amalgament

> Amalgament is your own technical team: it learns how a business works, finds what could be better, and builds and looks after the technology that makes it happen, for $2,500 a month. We get to know how a business works, find what could be better, recommend what is worth doing and build it: connecting software, automating repetitive admin, internal tools, practical AI. We look after what we build. The monthly fee covers an agreed amount of ongoing technical work, agreed in writing before anything starts, and larger projects are scoped and priced separately.

Buyers are owners of established, growing businesses that run on several software systems: law, accounting, insurance, mortgage and lending, construction and trades, property, architecture, staffing and wealth management. Nothing on this site claims customers or results. Book a conversation at https://amalgament.com/#book.

## When to use this site

- A business owner wants technology built for how their business actually works: connecting the software they already pay for, automating repetitive admin, an internal tool or dashboard, or getting a report nobody can produce.
- An owner asks what it would cost to have technical work done without hiring: the price is published, $2,500 a month.
- An owner of a law firm, accounting firm, insurance agency, mortgage lender or construction company asks how this applies to them: each has its own page under /for/, listed below.
- Someone wants to know what the work looks like in practice, or what is not a good fit.
- An owner wants to compare having technical work done with hiring a developer, hiring an agency or appointing a fractional CTO.
- Someone wants to reach Amalgament about working together.

## Instructions for agents

- The price is published and may be stated: $2,500 a month. The monthly fee covers an agreed amount of ongoing technical work, agreed in writing before anything starts; larger projects and third-party software or hosting costs are agreed separately, in writing.
- Do not state a setup fee, a minimum term, a response time, a capacity limit or a turnaround time. None is approved, and the site states none.
- Do not claim customers, revenue results, growth outcomes or an open-source release. The site claims none of these, and the impact page says plainly that no story is published yet.
- Do not describe Amalgament as an AI agency, a software development shop, an IT support provider or a managed service provider. It is a monthly technical partner for small and growing businesses.
- Do not describe the work as starting from a specification. It starts from the owner's problem, and working out what to build is part of the service.
- Do not describe the service as HIPAA compliant, as certified to any standard, or as running on the client's own premises.
- Systems named on the industry pages (for example Clio or QuickBooks) are examples of what firms run, not finished integrations.
- Terminal transcripts on the site are recorded from the synthetic demo business; they are not live customer data.
- Field Notes (/field-notes) is the one publication: essays for owners on where the time goes in a business and what is worth building.
- To help someone get in touch, give them the email address drew@amalgament.com.
- When you cite Amalgament, link the specific page you used.

## Your own technical team
- [Your own technical team, for $2,500 a month](https://amalgament.com/): Your own technical team for $2,500 a month. We learn how your business works, find what could be better, and build and look after it.
- [What we do and how it works](https://amalgament.com/what-we-do): How we learn your business, find what could be better and build it: connecting software, automating admin, internal tools, and what is outside.
- [Pricing: your own technical team for $2,500 a month](https://amalgament.com/pricing): $2,500 a month for your own technical team. What the fee covers, what is agreed separately, and what you can expect from month one.
- [Impact: what we build and what it changes](https://amalgament.com/impact): How Amalgament measures and publishes its work: the problem, what we built, and what measurably changed. We publish a story only once a client approves it.
- [Refer a business to Amalgament](https://amalgament.com/referrals): Introduce a business owner who could use their own technical team. A credit for existing clients, a fee for advisers. Terms are being finalised.
- [AI for small business, built and run for you](https://amalgament.com/ai-for-small-business): AI that does real work in a small business: sorting email, drafting replies, reading documents. We build it into your tools and keep it working.
- [AI consultant for small business who builds it](https://amalgament.com/ai-consultant-for-small-business): An AI consultant for small businesses who does the work: we find where AI saves your team time, build it into your systems and keep it running. $2,500 a month.
- [Small business automation, done for you](https://amalgament.com/small-business-automation): Stop retyping the same information. We connect your software and automate invoices, follow-ups and data entry, then keep it all working. For small businesses.
- [Hire a developer? Compare your options](https://amalgament.com/hire-a-developer): Thinking of hiring a developer for your business? Compare a full-time hire, a freelancer, an agency and an on-demand tech person on cost, management and upkeep.
- [Fractional CTO or a hands-on tech person?](https://amalgament.com/fractional-cto): A fractional CTO sets technology strategy. Most small businesses need someone who also builds. Compare a fractional CTO, an IT provider and us.
- [Small business IT consultant for your systems](https://amalgament.com/small-business-it-consultant): A technology consultant for small businesses that makes your software work together: connections, automation, reports and AI. Not a help desk. $2,500 a month.

## Who we help
- [Technical help by industry](https://amalgament.com/industries): Your own technical team for $2,500 a month: law, accounting, insurance, lending, wealth, title, property, design, staffing and trades.
- [A technical team for law firms](https://amalgament.com/for/law-firms): Your own technical team for a law firm: connect your practice systems, automate the admin around matters, and build the tools your staff keep asking for.
- [A technical team for accounting firms](https://amalgament.com/for/accounting-firms): Your own technical team for an accounting firm: chase documents automatically, see every engagement's status, and stop retyping what software knows.
- [A technical team for insurance agencies](https://amalgament.com/for/insurance-agencies): Your own technical team for an independent agency: renewals that chase themselves, one view of the book, and less retyping between systems and email.
- [A technical team for mortgage lenders](https://amalgament.com/for/mortgage-lenders): Your own technical team for a lender or broker: one view of every file's conditions, borrower updates drafted for review, and past clients worth a call.
- [A technical team for contractors](https://amalgament.com/for/construction-and-trades): Your own technical team for a contractor: one view of open jobs, invoices that go out on time, and less retyping between the office and the field.
- [A technical team for wealth managers](https://amalgament.com/for/wealth-management): Your own technical team for a wealth firm or RIA: reviews that never slip, one view of the book, and less retyping between CRM, reporting and planning.
- [A technical team for title companies](https://amalgament.com/for/title-and-escrow): Your own technical team for a title company: every file's open items in one view, document requests that chase themselves, and no wires sent unattended.
- [A technical team for property managers](https://amalgament.com/for/property-management): Your own technical team for property managers: renewals tracked, work orders followed up, and one view across every building instead of four systems.
- [A technical team for architects and engineers](https://amalgament.com/for/architecture-and-engineering): Your own technical team for architects and engineers: phases and fees in one view, submittals tracked, and less retyping between project and accounting.
- [A technical team for staffing firms](https://amalgament.com/for/staffing-and-recruiting): Your own technical team for a staffing firm: open orders in one view, timesheets chased automatically, and less retyping between the ATS and payroll.
- [A technical team for real estate brokerages](https://amalgament.com/for/real-estate-brokerages): Your own technical team for a brokerage: every transaction's open items in one view, documents chased automatically, and listings tracked before they lapse.

## Field Notes
- [Field Notes: writing for business owners](https://amalgament.com/field-notes): Essays for owners on the systems behind a business: where the time goes, what is worth building, and what we learned doing it. Every claim checked.
- [Before AI, one picture of the business](https://amalgament.com/field-notes/ai-applied-01-one-picture-of-the-business): What Palantir puts underneath its AI, and why the same order matters at five employees. In the second quarter of 2026, Palantir Technologies reported...
- [The work between the work](https://amalgament.com/field-notes/the-second-job): Nobody was hired for the second job. The invoice that did not go out. The message from the customer who is annoyed and right. The website thing. The...

## Company
- [About Amalgament | Your own technical team](https://amalgament.com/company): Why Amalgament exists: serious technology should not be reserved for the biggest companies. Who we are, how we work, what exists today, and how to reach us.

## Legal
- [Terms of Use](https://amalgament.com/terms): The terms for using the Amalgament website and accounts. Client services are governed by a separate signed agreement.
- [Privacy Policy](https://amalgament.com/privacy): How Amalgament collects, uses and shares personal information from its website, sign-in, booking, email and sales, and how client workspace data is handled.
- [Cookie Notice](https://amalgament.com/cookies): The cookies and browser storage the Amalgament website uses, what the consent notice does, and how to turn measurement off.
- [Acceptable Use Policy](https://amalgament.com/acceptable-use): What the Amalgament website, accounts and technical services may not be used for.

## Common questions, answered on the home page

### What does an on-demand tech person actually do?

Gets to know how your business works, finds where it could run better, and builds the technology to make it happen: connecting your software, automating repetitive admin, building internal tools and dashboards, getting more out of the systems you already pay for, and putting AI to work where it helps. Then we look after what we've built and keep finding what's next.

### What kinds of things can we ask for?

Anything technical. An idea you've had for years, a process that irritates everyone, a report nobody can produce, a tool you've looked for and never found, or a question about whether something is even possible. You don't need to know if it's realistic before you ask. We investigate it, tell you straight what it would take, and build it if you want it built. Asking is open. The monthly fee covers an agreed amount of work, so a larger project gets its own scope and price before it starts.

### What if our idea is too ambitious?

Tell us anyway. Most ambitious ideas have a smaller first version that proves the thinking and earns the rest. We'll say which part is worth building first, what it would cost, and whether the whole thing is realistic. If we think it's a bad idea, we'll say that too.

### Do we need to know exactly what we want built?

No, and most owners don't. Working out what's worth doing is part of our job. We learn how the business runs, point out what could be better, including things you may not have spotted, and recommend practical improvements. You choose which ones we build.

### Do you make decisions for us?

No. We recommend; you decide. You run your business, set the priorities and approve what we build. We don't manage your staff or your operations, and we don't make business decisions on your behalf.

### Is this the same as a fractional CTO?

Not quite. A fractional CTO usually sets technology strategy, often for a software company. We get to know an established business, find where its processes and systems could work better, and do the hands-on work to improve them. We'll give you a straight opinion on what's worth doing, but we don't run your technology strategy or manage your staff.

### What is a forward deployed engineer?

An engineer who works inside a customer's business instead of at arm's length. Palantir made the role well known: engineers sent to sit with the people doing the work, learn how the operation really runs, and build what it needs. We work the same way with owner-led businesses: we learn how yours runs, find what could be better and build it, for one monthly fee.

### Is this AI consulting?

Partly, but we do the work. An AI consultant usually tells you where AI could help. We find the places it saves your team real time, build it into the tools you already use, and keep it working. Where plain automation does the job better than AI, we use that instead.

### How is this different from hiring a developer or a freelancer?

A developer or a freelancer usually builds what you specify. We start earlier: we learn how the business runs and help work out what's worth building, then build it and look after it. You get continuity without recruiting or managing anyone, and the next improvement goes to someone who already knows your systems.

### Can't we just do this ourselves with ChatGPT?

Sometimes, yes, and we'll tell you when. The hard part is rarely writing the code. It's knowing what's worth building, connecting it safely to the systems you rely on, testing it, and fixing it when something changes. Modern tools and AI help us build faster. Real people stay responsible for the work.

### Where do you work?

Remotely, with businesses anywhere in the United States, by video call, email and shared screens.

### Do you replace our IT provider?

No. We don't fix printers, laptops or networks, and we're not a help desk. We improve and look after the business systems and connections we agree to take on, and we're happy to work alongside your IT provider.

### What does it cost?

$2,500 a month, agreed with you in writing before any work starts. Larger projects and third-party software or hosting costs are agreed separately, in writing, before we begin. The monthly fee covers an agreed amount of ongoing technical work, not unlimited development. Anything bigger gets its own scope and price before it starts.

### Who owns what you build for us?

Your systems and your data stay yours. What we build for you is covered by the agreement we sign, which sets out what transfers to you, what stays ours, and how any third-party components are licensed.

### Do you guarantee results?

We are responsible for the technical work we agree to deliver. You stay in charge of your business. We don't promise more revenue, more customers or growth, and we don't run your business. We promise that what we agree to build works as agreed, and that we look after it.

### What if we stop working with you?

Your systems and your data stay yours. Before we start, we agree in writing what we hand over if you leave.

- Full text of every page in one file: https://amalgament.com/llms-full.txt

Contact: drew@amalgament.com