About
Engineering software
since 1998.
One senior engineer. Twenty-eight years of hands-on experience. Fewer than ten clients at any time.
Small on purpose.
Kevin Champlin started writing production code in 1998. The web was young. Most businesses didn’t have a website. He’s been engineering software through every era since — the dot-com boom, the mobile revolution, the cloud migration, and now the AI transformation.
Champlin Enterprises exists to package that experience for a small number of operators at a time. No office full of junior developers. No layers of project managers between you and the person writing the code. When you hire Champlin Enterprises, you get one senior engineer with nearly three decades of hands-on experience. Directly.
Fewer than ten clients at any time. That’s not marketing copy. It’s how the work gets done at the standard it gets done. Every project gets the full weight of the experience in this room. No assembly lines. No shortcuts. No one else to blame.
Track Record
The numbers speak
28
Years of engineering experience
5
Technology eras navigated
<10
Active clients at any time
Principles
What we believe
Quality is non-negotiable.
We would rather turn down a project than deliver something we are not proud of. Every line of code has our name on it.
Direct beats delegated.
You talk to the engineer who writes the code. No account managers. No telephone game. No lost context.
Fewer clients. Better work.
We keep the roster small so every engagement gets the attention it deserves. That is the feature. Not the limitation.
Build to own.
When we hand over a project, you own it completely. No vendor lock-in. No proprietary frameworks. No hostage situations.
How the work gets checked
Seven review passes. Every engagement.
One engineer writes the code. Before it ships, it goes through seven dedicated review passes — each one focused on a single dimension of quality. It's how a solo engineer delivers 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.
Three engagements. Every quarter.
A real problem. A real budget. A bias toward shipping. 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.