About
Engineering software
since 1998.
Principal engineering on every line. Twenty-eight years of hands-on experience. If the public-facing site is what you need, start with our web design & development page for business websites. If you need the hosted side, start with our managed hosting and support platform. For a deeper technical roadmap, see the Inner Circle. If you need to move a prototype to production fast, the AI Sprint is the quickest way in. If you want to see the software we build and run ourselves, start with our products.
Principal-led. Built by a team.
Kevin Champlin started writing production code in 1998. The web was young. Most businesses didn’t have a website. He has been engineering software through every era since: the dot-com boom, the mobile revolution, the cloud migration, and now the AI transformation.
Champlin Enterprises is the software agency built on that experience. We take on the whole stack of what a modern software company does: custom applications and AI for clients, a growing line of our own SaaS products, vertical tools for industries the big vendors overlook, and managed hosting that comes with real engineering. You work with a principal-led team, not a layer of account managers.
Kevin sets the architecture and signs off on every release. Patricia keeps every engagement on schedule. Our AI engineering team, led by Dembe, plans, builds, tests and reviews the work, and every change ships through a pull request, automated checks and a human sign-off. Same standard for our own products and for client work. No assembly lines. No shortcuts.
Brand film
Software that simply has to work.
Twenty-eight years engineering production systems for companies that could not afford them to break, now pointed at the businesses we serve today. The same standard, whatever the size of the business.
- Chamber CultureMember CRM and AI workplace surveys for chambers of commerce.
- MainfolkWebsites for fire departments, churches, contractors and civic bodies.
- PulseLocal SEO and analytics, reported every week in plain English.
- FlatHoursTime tracking and invoicing. We bill our own work through it.
We do not only build this software. We run our own company on it.
Track Record
The numbers speak
28
Years of engineering experience
5
Technology eras navigated
11
AI engineering agents on the team
Meet the team
A principal-led team, with an AI engineering team behind it.
Kevin sets the architecture, leads the AI engineering team and signs off on what goes live. Patricia keeps every engagement moving from kickoff to invoice. Every change goes through a pull request, automated checks and a human sign-off before it reaches production.
Dembe, our AI engineering lead, plans the work and manages specialist AI agents for architecture, building, testing, code review, security, accessibility, databases and on-call. They are AI, and they are labelled that way.
Meet the whole teamKevin Champlin
Founder & Principal Engineer
28 years building production software. Kevin sets the architecture on every engagement, leads the AI engineering team, and signs off on what goes live.
Patricia
Administrative Coordinator
Keeps engagements running: scheduling, onboarding, billing and client communication, so every project has a person tracking it from kickoff to invoice.
AI engineering team
- Dembe
- Ari
- Mason
- Piper
- Tess
- Vera
- Knox
- Ada
- Quinn
- Iris
- Ripley
Our mission
Engineer software our clients can build a business on — and serve the few people who trust us with that the way we'd want to be served. Fewer clients. Deeper care. Work that's still standing years later.
What we stand for
We build the way we'd want it
built for us.
The standard doesn't change with the size of the client — a Fortune 500 and the shop down the street get the same care. These are the principles behind it.
Our word is the whole contract.
The one-page scope isn’t a sales tactic — it’s a promise. We do what we said, by the date we said it. If something slips, you hear it from us first, never in a surprise invoice.
A higher standard than the invoice.
We’d rather lose the work than put out something we wouldn’t put our own name on. The code carries our name because it carries our character.
Your business, stewarded like our own.
We spend your budget the way we’d spend ours — and we’ll tell you when the right answer is to spend less. Trust is the one thing we can’t rebuild.
People before transactions.
Clients known by name, served for years. We’re building relationships, not a pipeline — the kind of partner who’s still there in five years.
Built to outlast us.
You own everything we make — the code, the systems, the keys. No lock-in, no dependence on us. We measure the work by how well it serves you long after we’re gone.
Quiet excellence over loud promises.
No hype, no theater, no manufactured urgency. We let the work speak — and we do it right even when no one is watching, because that’s the only way worth doing it.
“He leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul.”
How the work gets checked
Seven review passes. Every engagement.
Our team builds the code. Before it goes live, it goes through seven dedicated review passes, each one focused on a single dimension of quality. It's how we deliver at the standard a Fortune 500 would expect from a team.
Security pass
Auth, injection, CSRF, secrets handling
Performance pass
Database queries, N+1, cache strategy
UI/UX pass
Accessibility, consistency, mobile
QA pass
Error handling, validation, edge cases
Architecture pass
Dead code, DRY, tech debt
DevOps pass
Deploy, headers, logging, infra
Speed pass
Render path, fonts, compression
A softer step
Want to see if we're a fit before any commitment?
Thirty minutes on Zoom is usually enough to know. The Free AI Opportunity Audit is exactly that — three concrete places AI quietly pays for itself in your business, a one-page plan emailed within 48 hours. No pitch. No follow-up sequence. You keep the plan whether or not we ever work together.
Let's build something.
A real problem. A real budget. A bias toward getting it live. Start with a 30-minute audit: no pitch, no follow-up sequence.
30-minute call. One-page plan emailed within 48 hours. No pitch deck.