Pycas Design Innovations · Glenview, Illinois

Business systems, built and run by the engineers you'll actually talk to.

Custom software, AI and workflow automation, cloud modernization and web applications for businesses and government. We scope it in writing, build it in small steps you approve, deploy it in the cloud, and stay on to run it. We also operate a document-processing product of our own, so we sell what we use.

  • Certified engineering
  • Production software we operate ourselves
  • Fixed prices, no open-ended projects
  • Businesses and public agencies
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Pycas Document Processing queue showing approved invoices and three held for review: an arithmetic mismatch, a duplicate invoice, and a missing purchase order

Pycas Document Processing, one of the systems we built and run. Every flag is a rule you can read.

1 business day

to reply to every enquiry with a named engineer and, where it fits, a secure way to send samples.

Our response commitment
$0

spent before you see a written scope and price. Discovery is a conversation, not an invoice.

How each offer is priced →
2 weeks

between demonstrations on a build. You watch the system grow instead of waiting for a reveal.

How we operate →
25

of your own documents processed free on our document platform, so you judge it on your files, not a demo.

Request an assessment →
What we solve

The four problems that bring people to us

Most engagements start with one of these. Each has a defined first step and a price you see before any work begins.

01

Work that people retype

Documents, forms and emails that someone reads and keys into a system by hand. Our document platform reads them, your rules check them, people see only the exceptions.

Free 25-document assessmentDetails
02

Software that doesn't exist yet

A portal, an internal tool, a customer-facing application or a business website that behaves like a system, not a brochure. Built to specification on mainstream technology you can keep.

Scoped and quoted in writingDetails
03

Systems that don't talk to each other

Data re-entered between accounting, CRM, spreadsheets and line-of-business tools. We connect them through APIs and integrations, and add AI where it earns its place.

Fixed price per milestoneDetails
04

An application nobody looks after

An aging server, a manual deploy, no backups, no one to call. We move it to a secure cloud environment with a runbook, then keep it monitored, patched and improving.

Fixed price from $4,500 · care from $400/moDetails
Flagship product · AI Document Processing

Stop retyping documents. Start trusting the data.

Invoices, purchase orders, freight bills, pay applications and forms go in. AI reads them, your business rules validate them (do the line items sum? is the vendor approved? is this a duplicate?), and a person reviews only what failed, with the reason spelled out. Clean results land in QuickBooks Online as an import-ready bill file, or in your own system as CSV or through the API.

Plans start at $39 a month, and the free assessment runs 25 of your own documents through the real pipeline before you pay anything. When a document type needs rules of its own, a fixed-price pilot configures them.

1 · Document PDF · scan · photo · email attachment · upload · API 2 · Extract OCR + document understanding fields · tables · line items 3 · Validate your business rules totals · dates · vendors · POs 4 · Review exceptions only human approves or corrects 5 · Export QuickBooks bill file · CSV database · API · ERP Passes all rules → auto-approved Fails a rule → flagged Audit trail: every field, its source document and page, the rule results, and who approved what and when

Document → Extract → Validate → Review → Export. The model is a component; the pipeline is the product.

What we build and run

One engineering team, six kinds of work

The same people design, build, deploy and operate. Every offer below is delivered under a written scope with a fixed price or a defined monthly fee.

BUILD

Custom software

Web and enterprise applications built to specification: role-based access, audit logging, reporting, accessibility and records retention designed in from the start.

Custom software
BUILD

Web applications & business websites

Customer portals, booking and intake flows, and company websites built as real systems on the same stack, cloud-hosted, maintained after launch.

Web applications
BUILD

AI & workflow automation

One targeted capability inside software you already use: document processing, document Q&A, email triage, classification, search. We say so when a problem doesn't need AI.

AI integration
DEPLOY

Cloud deployment & modernization

Move an application off an aging server or a manual deploy into a secure, monitored cloud environment with backups, CI/CD and a runbook: AWS by default, Azure where you already are.

Cloud & modernization
CONNECT

Systems & API integration

Accounting, CRM, e-commerce, government and internal systems exchanging data through APIs and scheduled jobs instead of re-keying.

Integration
OPERATE

Data, GIS & care plans

Geospatial and SQL data platforms, map-based applications and reporting; then monitoring, patches, backups and budgeted engineering hours every month.

Data & GIS · Care plans
Proof

Show, don't describe.

Beyond the document product above: ShootPro24AI, a photo post-production platform Pycas designed, built and operates in the cloud. The same engineering runs client work.

Government & enterprise

A small business that delivers like a large one, without the layers.

Agencies and institutions get the same team, with the paperwork procurement needs: fixed-scope task orders, documented deliverables, WCAG 2.1 AA built in, and a capability statement on request. Custom applications, modernization, cloud systems, AI-enabled intake, GIS and data.

  • Fixed-scope delivery. Task orders and milestones with defined deliverables; no open-ended hours.
  • Accessibility and records. WCAG 2.1 AA, audit logging and retention considered from the first design.
  • Certified cloud engineering. Infrastructure as code, monitoring, backups and a runbook with every deployment, on AWS or Azure.
  • Direct accountability. The engineer who built it is the one who answers the phone.
How Pycas works

Discover → Scope → Build → Deploy → Operate

Small first steps, written scopes, working software every two weeks, and the same team afterwards.

01 · DISCOVER

A conversation, not an invoice

What your team does by hand, which system is causing trouble, what "done" looks like.

02 · SCOPE

A number in writing

Deliverables, price and timeline before any work starts. Smaller than you expect, on purpose.

03 · BUILD

Two-week demonstrations

You see the system grow on your data and approve each step with results in hand.

04 · DEPLOY

Your cloud account or ours

Infrastructure as code, monitoring, backups and a runbook. You own the code and the accounts.

05 · OPERATE

We stay on

Care plans keep it patched, monitored and improving, from the people who built it.

Start here

Tell us what you're trying to solve.

A workflow that takes too long, a system that no longer fits, or software that doesn't exist yet. Within one business day you'll hear from an engineer with either an answer or the two or three questions that let us scope it.