Services · Houston, TX

Software services for the systems everyone else is afraid of.

From mainframes to monoliths to the warehouse floor, we specialize in the software that's too critical to fail and too old to ignore — for businesses across Houston and the Greater Houston metro.

Legacy Modernization & Migrations

Bring decades-old systems into the modern era without a risky rip-and-replace.

  • COBOL, Fortran, mainframe, AS/400 & VB6 assessments
  • Incremental re-platforming to cloud & containers
  • Database, ERP, reporting & desktop-to-Web moves
  • Vendor exit, consolidation, archive & decommission
  • Zero-downtime cutover strategies
Full Legacy Modernization & Migrations details →

Workload Optimization

Squeeze more throughput out of the hardware and licenses you already pay for.

  • Performance profiling & bottleneck analysis
  • Batch & job scheduling tuning
  • SQL query and index optimization
  • Cost reduction on compute & licensing
Full Workload Optimization details →

System Integration

Connect aging systems to modern APIs, data platforms, and SaaS tools.

  • REST & event-driven API layers over legacy cores
  • Data pipelines & ETL modernization
  • Middleware and message-queue design
  • Secure, audited data exchange
Full System Integration details →

3PL & Logistics Systems

WMS, TMS, and warehouse-floor workflows for 3PLs, brokers, and distributors.

  • WMS & TMS integration, extension, and rollout support
  • Scanner-driven receiving, pick/pack/ship & cycle counts
  • Multi-client 3PL inventory, billing & customer portals
  • Carrier API rating, tendering, tracking & freight audit
Full 3PL & Logistics Systems details →

B2B EDI & Trading-Partner Integration

Onboard retail and customer partners over EDI or API — mapped, tested, and monitored.

  • X12 & EDIFACT mapping (850, 855, 856, 810, 940, 945, 214)
  • RosettaNet PIPs (3A4, 3B2, 4B2) over RNIF or ebMS
  • AS2, SFTP, VAN, and REST/webhook transports
  • Retail routing-guide compliance & chargeback prevention
  • Alerting on failed transmissions before your partner calls
Full B2B EDI & Trading-Partner Integration details →

Carrier Integration

Rate, tender, label, track, and audit across every carrier you ship with — parcel, LTL, and truckload.

  • Carrier API rating, rate shopping & transit-time quoting
  • Label generation, manifesting & end-of-day close
  • Load tendering, tracking & POD capture (204, 990, 214)
  • Freight invoice audit against the rate you were quoted (210)
  • Failover, retries & alerting when a carrier API goes dark
Full Carrier Integration details →

3PL Reporting Layer

The reports your warehouse system won't build — on data landed in a database you own.

  • Operational data extracted on a schedule, read-only, from the system you already run
  • A database in your own cloud account that any BI tool can point at
  • Billing reconciliation, inventory aging, and SLA scorecards built to your questions
  • Exception alerts and per-customer scorecards that send themselves
  • A self-serve view, so the same request stops landing on one person
Full 3PL Reporting Layer details →

Research & Feasibility Studies

Answer the question before you spend the budget — build vs. buy, feasibility, and due diligence.

  • Feasibility studies with costs, risks, and a verdict you can act on
  • Build-vs-buy and vendor selection scored the same way for every option
  • Timeboxed technical spikes and proofs of concept on your own data
  • Technical due diligence on software you're about to buy or inherit
Full Research & Feasibility Studies details →

Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement

Fix the process before you automate it — measured with real data, not guessed.

  • DMAIC projects with a baseline you can defend
  • Value stream and process mapping to find the real constraint
  • Root-cause analysis instead of blame or hunches
  • Error-proofing and dashboards so gains actually stick
Full Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement details →

Custom Software & Web Development

Websites, internal tools, APIs, and automation for teams without a dev department.

  • Internal tools that replace the spreadsheet everyone depends on
  • Websites, landing pages, and forms that actually reach you
  • API, webhook, and SaaS integrations between the tools you own
  • Automation of the recurring, manual, error-prone jobs
  • Built in the mainstream stack your next hire will know — or in whatever your existing system is already written in
Full Custom Software & Web Development details →

Starting a Business

Registered, online, and findable — the LLC, the domain, the email, the site, and Google.

  • LLC formation filed with the state, plus the EIN your bank will ask for
  • Domain, business email, and hosting set up in accounts registered to you
  • A website sized to the business, live with SSL, backups, and a working contact form
  • Google Business Profile, Analytics, and Ads — claimed, tracked, and honestly reported
Full Starting a Business details →

Veteran-Owned Businesses

Texas waives the formation fee and five years of franchise tax for veteran founders — we file the claim so it actually attaches.

  • Eligibility answered straight: a new Texas entity, every owner an honorably discharged veteran
  • TVC Veteran Verification Letter and the Comptroller's Form 05-904 prepared for each owner
  • Formation filed with both attached — the only point at which the waiver can be claimed
  • Then the same launch as any founder: domain, email, website, and Google, in accounts you own
Full Veteran-Owned Businesses details →

Power BI & Power Platform

Reports people trust, apps that fit the licence you already own, and flows somebody documented.

  • Power BI semantic models, DAX & report design
  • Power Apps internal tools and Power Automate flows
  • Refresh, gateway, and row-level security done properly
  • Governance and rescue when nobody owns it anymore
Full Power BI & Power Platform details →

AI & Automation

Practical AI for operations — documents read by software, checked by people.

  • LLM document & email automation — invoices, BOLs, and POs extracted, not retyped
  • Private on-prem LLM deployments when data can't leave the building
  • RAG copilots over your ERP, WMS, CRM, and SOPs
  • Chatbots, phone & voicemail AI, and photo capture from the field
  • Forecasting and anomaly detection on the history you already have
  • Human-in-the-loop workflows with QA gates and audit trails
Full AI & Automation details →

Customer Intake & Outreach

Every inquiry captured, routed, and followed up — instead of lost between an inbox and a notepad.

  • Web, phone, and email inquiries captured in one place with nothing dropped
  • Client intake, document collection, and onboarding workflows that chase for you
  • Routing, response-time tracking, and follow-up sequences that stop when a human replies
  • Outbound prospecting with deliverability, suppression, and unsubscribes done properly
Full Customer Intake & Outreach details →

Data Entry & Analysis

Get the data in, get it clean, and get an answer out — without a week of copy-paste.

  • Backlog digitization and recurring entry, automated wherever it can be
  • Cleanup, de-duplication, and standardization on data nobody trusts yet
  • Spreadsheets promoted into real systems with validation and an audit trail
  • Recurring reports, dashboards, and analysis that answers an actual question
Full Data Entry & Analysis details →

Code Rescue & Support

Inherited an undocumented system nobody dares to touch? We make it safe to change.

  • Reverse engineering & documentation
  • Automated test harnesses for legacy code
  • Security hardening & dependency cleanup
  • Long-term maintenance & on-call support
Full Code Rescue & Support details →

Enterprise IT Services

Managed and co-managed IT across Texas — Active Directory to the printer that keeps dropping offline, and everything in between.

  • Active Directory & Entra ID cleaned up: stale accounts gone, Group Policy consolidated, MFA on
  • Networks, firewalls & Wi-Fi drawn, segmented, and documented — warehouse floor included
  • Servers, virtualization & backups with a restore that has actually been rehearsed
  • Printers, scanners & label printers that stay online, fixed at the cause
  • Microsoft 365 reconciled, help desk & offboarding run from a checklist
Full Enterprise IT Services details →

Fire Alarm Programming & Records

The software behind fire alarm work — documented, searchable, and out of one tech's laptop.

  • Panel programs and device schedules documented and version-controlled
  • NFPA 72 inspection & testing records you can produce on demand
  • Device schedule migration during panel replacements
  • Deficiencies tracked from the tech's tablet through to the invoice
Full Fire Alarm Programming & Records details →
Languages

Languages we work in

The set your next developer already knows, and the set most shops turn down. Who reads the old ones is on the about page.

Python TypeScript JavaScript Go Rust Java C# C++ SQL Swift COBOL Fortran Ada & SPARK Erlang Elixir Scala Clojure F# Julia Zig
Industry focus

Deep dive: 3PL & B2B logistics

Logistics is where our integration work concentrates — warehouses, brokers, and distributors whose systems all hold a different version of the truth.

Logistics overview

The whole practice: WMS, TMS, EDI, orchestration, 3PL billing, and visibility — plus how engagements are scoped and priced.

Explore logistics →

3PL & warehouse software

Multi-client inventory, scanner workflows, hardware integration, customer portals, and billing that captures what you earned.

3PL details →

EDI & B2B integration

Transaction sets, transports, retail compliance, chargeback prevention, and what onboarding a new partner really takes.

EDI details →
Deep dives

Build & improve

The rest of the practice, written up for the people who actually need each piece.

Custom software, Web & apps

Web apps and websites, iOS and Android apps, Windows desktop tools, integrations and dashboards — designed properly, with engagement models and who owns the code spelled out.

Custom software →

Mobile apps

iOS and Android from one Flutter codebase — field service and inspection capture, warehouse scanning, proof of delivery, and customer apps, submitted to both stores.

Mobile app development →

Legacy modernization & migrations

Mainframe and AS/400, databases, ERP, reporting, desktop-to-Web, hosting and cloud — parallel runs, audited reconciliation, and cutovers with a tested way back.

Legacy modernization →

Starting a business

The LLC filed, the EIN, a domain and business email, a site on hosting you own, and the Google listing claimed.

Start the paperwork →

Veteran-owned businesses

Texas waives the formation fee and five years of franchise tax for a 100% veteran-owned new business — claimed with the filing, which is the part we do.

Veteran-owned business launch →

New business websites

A simple site, a storefront, or the application the idea depends on — the smallest one that fits, in accounts you own.

New business websites →

Power BI & Power Platform

Semantic models, DAX, Power Apps, Power Automate, and governance for the sprawl that grew when nobody was watching.

Power Platform →

AI & Automation

Document and email automation, agents, chatbots, phone and vision AI, forecasting, and private on-prem models — wired into the systems you already run, with a human veto.

AI & automation →

Customer intake & outreach

Lead capture that can't silently fail, onboarding workflows, CRM cleanup, and outbound email built to reach the inbox.

Intake & outreach →

Data entry & analysis

Digitization, cleanup and de-duplication, spreadsheets promoted to real systems, automated reports, and analysis with the method shown.

Data services →

Lean Six Sigma

DMAIC, the eight wastes, and the deliverables you get — measured baselines rather than opinions with a budget.

Process improvement →

Small business

One useful tool at a time, fixed price, in accounts you control. No platform, no retainer you can't leave.

Small business →

Startups & MVPs

The smallest honest first version, plus paid technical reviews of builds you can't evaluate yourself.

Startups →

Agencies & consultancies

White-label overflow capacity under your brand, in your repo. Your client never hears from us.

For agencies →

Workload optimization

Profiling, query and index work, batch windows, and licence cost — measured before anything changes and measured again after.

Workload optimization →

System integration

APIs over legacy cores, data pipelines, queues that retry without duplicating, and interfaces that raise the alarm themselves.

System integration →

Code rescue & support

An inherited system nobody dares change: documented, tested, hardened, and then maintained by someone who answers.

Code rescue →

Enterprise IT services

Active Directory and Entra ID, endpoints and patching, the network drawn and segmented, servers and backups, Microsoft 365, help desk — and the printer fixed at the cause. On-site across Greater Houston, remote across Texas.

Enterprise IT services →

Fire alarm programming & records

Panel programs documented, NFPA 72 inspection records produced on demand, device schedules migrated, deficiencies billed.

Fire alarm software →
Questions we get

Choosing a service, starting an engagement

Which service do we actually need?

You don't have to know — describe the symptom, not the solution. A slow month-end, a warehouse that can't confirm orders, a system nobody dares touch: the free assessment maps what you tell us to whichever practice actually fixes it, and the roadmap you get back says why.

How does an engagement usually start?

With the free assessment: we look at your systems and hand you a prioritized roadmap of what's at risk and what it would take to fix. From there, most work runs as a scoped project priced up front, with ongoing support as an option once something is live — not a retainer you can't leave.

Who actually does the work?

Our own small team, based in Houston. Your project isn't brokered out to an offshore bench — if an engagement ever needs someone outside the team, you hear it from us before it happens, and they're bound by the same confidentiality terms we are.

What industries do you know best?

Logistics is where the practice concentrates — 3PLs, brokers, distributors, and the warehouses between them — alongside dedicated work in fire and life-safety records and a long tail of Houston small businesses. The common thread is less the industry than the shape of the problem: critical systems, old data, and integrations nobody owns.

Can you work alongside our existing IT team or vendor?

Yes — plenty of engagements are exactly that: extra capacity next to an in-house team, or one specialist piece inside a larger project. We document as we go and hand over cleanly, and for agencies we work white-label — under your brand, in your repo, invisible to your client.

Get in touch

Not sure where to start?

A free assessment gives you a clear picture and a prioritized plan — no commitment.

Prefer to talk?

Call 832-598-8234 or email msco@stoneagesoftware.com. Houston, Texas — serving Houston, The Woodlands, Conroe, Sugar Land, Katy, Pearland, and the Greater Houston metro.

What happens next

We read your message, an engineer replies with questions or a straight answer, and if it's worth a call we book one. No drip campaign, no handoff to sales.

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