Custom software, built for hire
Phone apps, web apps, backends, wireless tooling, or something that fits none of those. Built under contract, kept simple, and kept working after delivery.
What Caskfive builds
The list is a sample, not a limit. The language, database, and cloud follow the job. What stays the same is the focus: an interface people can use without a manual, on the simplest architecture that holds up.
| Work | Description |
|---|---|
| Mobile apps | Android and iPhone apps for customers, field staff, and managed device fleets, including MDM deployment and app store publishing. |
| Web apps and dashboards | Customer-facing web apps, internal tools, and operator consoles, with single sign-on where you need it. |
| Backends and data pipelines | Services, APIs, and pipelines that move and process data at volume, in whatever language, database, and cloud fit the job. |
| AI for your business | A working session on where AI tools can take on work your team does today, from writing your product's code with tools like Claude Code to administrative tasks, and where they can't. You leave with options and a plan, not a sales pitch. |
| Wireless and RF tooling | Survey, signal-analysis, and indoor-positioning software across cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GNSS. |
| Network Survey custom work | Custom features, record types, and integrations for Network Survey deployments: MQTT and gRPC pipelines, purpose-built APIs, and connections into the systems you already run. |
| Deployment and architecture | Architecture for systems that have to keep running, kept as simple as the job allows, on whichever cloud you already use. Plus MDM rollout of Network Survey across device fleets. |
| Maintenance | Keeping software you already depend on working, including open source you did not write. Support and maintenance arrangements are available for Network Survey and NS Analytics. |
How does an engagement start?
Email what you need built and where it has to run. Christian Rowlands replies and scopes the work with you.
No handoff
Whoever scopes the work writes it and maintains it afterwards. Nobody is reassigned at the end of a quarter.
Twenty years
More than twenty years of wireless protocol software.
Home turf
Cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GNSS are the day job, not something to learn on your dime.
What Caskfive has shipped
Software Caskfive has built and shipped. Network Survey is Apache 2.0, so its source and every release are public. Client names stay private, so client work is not listed here.
- Network SurveyOpen source Android app, Apache 2.0Source on GitHub
- NS AnalyticsWeb platform for survey data from many phones
- VectorOnIndoor positioning: Android app and web console
- WaveDiggerWeb tool for Wi-Fi and cell tower lookups
- PingCheckOpen source Android ping utility, GPL-3.0Source on GitHub
- TaktrixEncrypted chat plugin for ATAK, built on Matrix
- StrommaAndroid screen and camera streaming over RTSP
- VBoardAndroid keyboard that translates as you talk