K-Optional Services

Business Automation Software

Eliminate repetitive tasks and focus on growth with custom business automation software.

Business Automation Software

Custom business automation software to streamline your business and increase efficiency.

K-Optional Software's has built business automation software that is instrumental in increasing our productivity, reducing costs and errors, and increasing efficiency across different industries. We specifically design solutions to meet our clients unique business needs, resulting in significant improvements to their bottom line. Contact us today to learn how our business automation software can help transform your organization and drive your success

Our Business Automation Software Expertise

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Experienced Business Automation Software Developers

Client Software Success By The Numbers

From mom-and-pop shops with big ideas to 20,000-person organizations K-Optional offers streamlined, cost effective project management to get your software application developed faster, for less money. We're here to ensure your success!

$4.5M+Total cost savings by revamping our customers’ business flows.

$13.5M+Total revenue generated by K-Optional products.

400%Average year-over-year return on investment for our clients.

99%Customer satisfaction across all projects.

Success Stories

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Business Automation Software Portfolio

Our Work

Accessible voice control survey software

We specialize in creating accessible voice-controlled survey software designed for visually impaired individuals. Leveraging the power of ARIA-WAI standards and TensorFlow.js, our cutting-edge technology allows for secure and accurate data collection without sending any data off-device. Explore our custom tech solutions for advanced, anonymous, and user-friendly research studies.

Weeks to delivery: 6
HIPAA compliance: 100%
Device support: 95%

How we used the ARIA-WAI standard, Tensorflow.js and Whisper WASM to help UAMS conduct an accessible survey solution. Learn more.

Rapid Prototyping: Automotive custom software development

Discover how Skanin, a custom software developed for the automotive industry using the the rapid prototyping approach, helped solve the challenges associated with obtaining car repair status updates. Learn more about Skanin's innovative solution, leveraging a QR tag tracking system and instant SMS notifications to enhance efficiency for both customers and auto repair shops. Explore this case study to delve into the process of developing custom automotive software using rapid prototyping. Read on to uncover the success story of Skanin's MVP implementation and its positive impact on the automotive industry.

Time to MVP: 2 days
Testing Coverage: 90%
Bug Discovery and Resolution Time: 2 hours

Learn more about the successful implementation of the rapid software prototyping concept and the valuable feedback received.

Insurance Claim Scraper: extract, transform & load

When a person files a vehicle insurance claim, providers turn to a company for scheduling a damage assessment. That company— a K-Optional Software client— specializes in getting every vehicle appraised so that the insurance provider can cut a check for the repair. Working with insurance providers means adopting long-lived industry conventions; our client receives claims to a dedicated email server in a pseudo-consistent format. Before working with K-Optional Software, our client had written a script in-house for reading this inbox, attempting to interpret the data, and exporting it into a CSV file. This approach proved brittle; slight variations in claim emails confused the script causing entire CSVs to drop. Worse yet, the evolution of email authentication— actually a welcome improvement for IT security— broke the script entirely.

Weeks to 100% ROI: 3
Insurance provider support growth: 33%
Workflow cost reduction: 150%

K-Optional received an urgent request to "fix the plane while it's flying". Learn more.

We have gone over the software and are very pleased with it. Looks wonderful, magnitudes better than before. Downloading the app went very smoothly. And the data export process is perfectly straightfoward.
Rebekah Keefe & Meredith Stenisland - Research Associate, University of Texas School of Nursing

University of Texas School of Nursing

The University of Texas (UT) Nursing Department requested a technical solution for administering a sophisticated survey. The results would become the basis for a major statewide study. UT hired a development firm, but the subjects (pharmacists) had a hard time with the interface. This created user errors and data output that were impossible to interpret, which made it difficult to derive any meaningful insights.

Reported Errors: 0
Reduced Training Time: 95%
Cost Reduction: 40%

The University of Texas Nursing program was to conduct a statewide pharmacist survey as a part of a study. Learn more

Strategy

Do automation that doesn't scale: a framework for Business Process Automation

Discover a three-step framework for lean business process automation (BPA) that incorporates human-driven elements to minimize risk and improve efficiency. Learn how this method enables more effective automation by incorporating domain experts, virtual assistants, and custom software development, ultimately creating resilient systems that adapt to complex business needs.

Business Automation

Automation

Custom Software

John Considine

May 5, 2023 15 min read

Strategy

Local vs off-shore custom software vendors

Explore the pros and cons of local, onshore, and offshore custom software vendors to make an informed decision for your next project. Discover the impact of factors like trust, reputation, communication, price, and more on your project outcomes.

John Considine

May 5, 2023 10 min read

Strategy

Our rules for engagement with GPT and LLMs

For a custom software business in the year 2023, large language models (LLMs) like GPT are hard to avoid. GPT takes have flooded tech news while GPT projects constitute an overwhelming proportion of trending open-sourced software. It’s not just hype: LLMs have proven remarkably adept at writing code, generating content, and assisting with research— all pertinent to our operation. Prognosticators wonder if the shift to AI-driven development permanently alters the custom software industry. The emerging art of Prompt Engineering speaks to a shift. And so, after careful consideration, we have crafted this framework for dealing with LLMs internally.

John Considine

May 3, 2023 7 min read

Insight

Custom software development: what every business should avoid

You’ve probably heard a success story or two about custom software development, something like “ordinary guy launches a popular mobile app” or “business cuts costs in two with a clever digital system”. Perhaps you’ve also heard of a flop— maybe a friend sank money into an idea that didn’t take off, or a colleague owned a faltering IT migration. The horror stories, though depressing, can teach the most. So if you’re considering a foray into custom application development services, get to know the points of failure. They’re less public, so unfortunately many learn someone else’s hard lesson again.

Government Institutions

John Considine

March 3, 2023 6 min read

Strategy

Streamlining Your Business with Custom Software SaaS Integrations

Find out how to choose the right custom software 3rd party software-as-a-service (SaaS) product integration strategy for your business and optimize your workflows for increased productivity.

John Considine

January 7, 2023 12 min read

Guide

How to Implement Automation in Your Business: A Case Study

Learn how to implement business process automation with a real-world example from an appliance servicing company, and discover the steps involved in achieving efficient automation.

John Considine

January 4, 2023 6 min read

Insight

Custom Automation Solutions for Business

Thinking of automating a piece of your business? You’re probably onto something. Most companies, even tech-savvy companies like yours, can unlock huge gains by taking advantage of automation opportunities. Investing in custom automation solutions will pay dividends. In this introductory guide, we examine some great custom automation tools and explain (in detail) how you can implement your own automation solutions at your business.

John Considine

December 3, 2022 8 min read

K-Optional Handbook

How to vet and hire a competent software development firm

How do development firms price applications? As a client, what are the best ways to optimize on value? Since we get these questions a lot, we put together the complete guide. Hope it gives you a window into the software development world!

John Considine

January 7, 2023 6 min read

Insight

Software start-up system essentials

Wondering what fundamental systems to adopt for your early-stage startup or idea? Here’s our definitive guide distilled from four clients that white-label K-Optional Software’s development services. These approaches range from hyper-minimal to hyper-thorough.

John Considine

October 2, 2022 8 min read

Insight

The perils of single-client SaaS products

Subscription revenue is the gift that keeps on giving; who doesn’t value long-term and predictable income? Multi-billion-dollar companies like Adobe have transitioned their products to subscription-based payments for good reason. Even so, product creators might be overly-disposed to conforming to this model- alternate pricing systems often make more sense depending on a few aspects of the user-base.

John Considine

September 2, 2022 15 min read

Strategy

When to buy, and when to build custom software

Explore the build vs buy dilemma in software development with a real-world case study, and learn to strike the right balance between off-the-shelf solutions and custom software.

John Considine

September 3, 2022 6 min read