Practical. Focused. AI.
We build secure, scalable applications for businesses with real problems worth solving.
What We Do
Small Pond Software, LLC helps small and mid-sized companies put AI to work where it pays off: less busywork for the team, fewer decisions that wait on the owner, and client data that stays private.
For owners planning to sell or step back, Apogee makes the business run without them. We find where it depends on you, capture what you and your team know, and hand repetitive back-office work to AI your staff supervise, so the business sells for more and keeps its team.
For companies building with AI, we develop custom applications, integrate AI into the systems you already run, lead AI projects as fractional delivery leadership, and deploy models on your own hardware when data can't leave the building.
We also build our own focused software products, each one designed around one audience, one workflow, and one persistent problem.
AI Delivery Services
Small Pond Software works with small and mid-sized companies in Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, Windsor, and Longmont to plan, build, and deliver AI-powered software, from cloud-native applications to fully local, data-sovereign deployments, combining hands-on development with two decades of enterprise program delivery.
Make your business run without you
For owners planning to sell or step back in the next one to five years. Apogee finds where the business depends on you, captures what you and your team know, and hands the busywork to AI your staff supervise, so the business sells for more and keeps its team. Learn more
Add AI to what you run today
Bringing AI capabilities into existing systems and workflows, ERP, CRM, support, and internal tools, so you get practical automation without replacing what already works. See how AI integration works
Embedded technical leadership
Acting as embedded delivery leadership on your AI initiative, scoping the work, managing the build, and keeping a complex project on track, the same role played across two decades of enterprise ERP and cloud programs. See how fractional leadership works
On-premises, air-gapped deployment
For organizations that can't send data outside their own walls, designing, deploying, and maintaining AI models entirely on local infrastructure, no cloud APIs, no third-party processing, so sensitive data never leaves your environment. See how local AI works
Full-stack build & delivery
Design, development, and delivery of AI-powered applications and features, from semantic search and retrieval to production-ready SaaS tools, on modern cloud infrastructure or local on-premises environments. See how we build custom AI apps
Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, serving companies across Northern Colorado.
Selected products
Each product begins with a narrow problem and is shaped into a practical, maintainable application.
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How we build
Identity, access, data protection, and operational controls are considered from the beginning rather than added after launch, including on-premises or air-gapped deployment when data can't leave your environment.
Cloud-native services support growth while avoiding unnecessary infrastructure and cost during the early stages of a product.
AI is used where it improves understanding, automation, discovery, or usability—not simply because it is available.
Products are shaped through practical increments so real users can influence what gets built next.
Frequently Asked
Both. Small Pond Software builds its own focused SaaS products, and separately delivers custom AI development, integration, and fractional delivery leadership for small and mid-sized companies.
Custom AI application development, AI integration into existing systems and workflows, local AI deployment for data sovereignty, and fractional, embedded technical delivery leadership for AI initiatives. For owners planning to sell or step back, Apogee helps them maintain the full value of their business.
Yes. For organizations with strict data residency or compliance requirements, healthcare, legal, government, and financial services, Small Pond Software can design and deploy AI models entirely on local or on-premises infrastructure, keeping sensitive data inside your own environment.
Fort Collins, Colorado, and the surrounding Northern Colorado region, including Loveland, Greeley, Windsor, and Longmont.
Engagements start with a specific business problem, move through scoped, incremental delivery, and are built on secure, cloud-native architecture designed to scale without unnecessary complexity.
Patrick Kimmitt, PMP, spent more than 20 years leading ERP, cloud, data, and integration programs, including JD Edwards, Oracle, Infor M3, and SAP S/4HANA, before moving into AI application delivery recently.
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