Small on purpose.

H3LX Labs LLC is the company the apps live under. One person does the design, the code and the support, which is why the products have strong opinions and why the reply to your email comes from the person who wrote the thing.

Where the work comes from

Every product here began where the tools ran out. A spreadsheet doing a job it was never built for, a group text standing in for dispatch, a PDF standing in for a plan.

SAR21 exists because its author is an active volunteer with a county search and rescue team — a ground pounder, a licensed UAV pilot, and trained in search management — and watched a phone tree cost the team twenty minutes before anyone could move.

ExhibitHawk exists because a prototype got carried into a real trial, and the trial is what turned it into software.

BasePlate exists because second shooting a wedding means working from someone else's PDF, and weddings run late.

TactiTurf exists because a whiteboard of coloured dots leaves the players doing the translation, and a whiteboard looks nothing like a pitch.

How it's built

The stack varies with the problem — SwiftUI where it has to feel native, Tauri and Rust where it has to be local-first, Next.js and Firebase where a team needs a shared source of truth, Flutter where one catalog has to serve two platforms.

The constant is that these are tools used standing up: outdoors, in a courtroom, on a shop floor, at a reception venue with no signal. That settles a lot of decisions early. Local-first over cloud-first wherever the job allows it, no telemetry, and no feature that only works when the network does.

Client work

H3LX takes on a small number of client engagements a year, usually where the software has to hold up on the floor rather than in a demo — production floors, ERP integrations, and the people who work them. The Destiny Tool projects are the current example.