5280 Lab builds custom websites, web apps, automations, and practical AI tools for small businesses, from booking sites and client portals to inventory and scheduling systems. Each one is designed to give your team hours back every week.
Every project here started as a real problem inside a real business: a medical clinic, a public wildlife resource, a 24/7 operations team. Yours gets the same approach.
Internal tools with logins, user roles, audit trails, and dashboards, built to replace the spreadsheet everyone is afraid to touch.
Connect your storefront, files, and equipment so work moves from one step to the next on its own, and nobody has to re-type anything.
Photo recognition, document search, and automated reports. AI goes where it genuinely saves time, not where it's a gimmick.
Turn dense PDFs, catalogs, and exports into clean, searchable data you can actually use.
Fast, clean sites on modern hosting, with content you can update yourself.
Software that works with physical equipment, including barcode scanners, cameras, CNC machines, and Raspberry Pi kiosks.
Tools running inside real businesses today, plus a few side builds from the lab.
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A free guide to Colorado's threatened and endangered wildlife. The site spans 158 pages, and every fact is sourced from state and federal agencies.
Gives a small health education business a website it can update on its own, plus a portal where clients sign up and book classes.
Replaces website builder, booking, and class-registration subscriptions
View live site ↗Gives a clinic one secure home for policies, training, and onboarding, instead of paying for several separate subscriptions.
Replaces LMS, policy, and compliance-tracking subscriptions
Keeps supply requests, approvals, vendors, and stock levels in one place, replacing spreadsheets and back-and-forth texts.
Replaces inventory and purchasing software subscriptions
A staff calendar built around how a clinic actually runs. It warns managers before any shift becomes understaffed.
Replaces per-user staff scheduling subscriptions
Schedules round-the-clock teams whose union contracts decide who is offered each shift, and applies those rules automatically.
Brings live fire weather, forecasts, and satellite fire detections into one dashboard, with AI-written briefings and custom alerts.
Side builds and experiments that show what else is possible.
Brings class notes, local EMS protocols, and quick-reference tools together to carry students from the classroom to the field.
A wall-mounted touchscreen that keeps the family calendar, chores, and rewards in one place. It runs offline, with no monthly fees.
Turns dense state hunting brochures into clean, searchable data, automatically pulling more than 2,300 hunt codes.
Puts geology maps, land status, and mineral data on one interactive map, so prospectors don't have to juggle five websites.
Turns photos, math, and data into machine-ready drawings for pen plotters, with a live preview of the toolpath.
Finds what performs well online, drafts post ideas from real sources, and flags likely reposts before anything goes live.
Handles the ratio math for recipes, keeps safety-critical ingredients locked to spec, and learns from past batches.
Caleb was extremely easy to work with, responsive, and was able to deliver the web application I was looking for.
He replaced a subscription software service we were using for our medical clinic with an internal tool that defined employee access, content, and scheduling with our internal team. His product has been essential to our medical clinic, and we highly recommend to anyone that they take advantage of Caleb's technical knowledge and execution. Thank you, Caleb!
Each idea below builds on something I've already shipped, so you aren't paying for an experiment.
Online intake forms, memberships, and a secure patient-facing portal for direct primary care and wellness clinics.
Built from: Health educator portal + clinic appsTake online bookings and class sign-ups on a site you own, without monthly per-seat fees.
Built from: Health educator websiteLet your team ask plain-English questions across policies, manuals, and SOPs and get answers with the source attached.
Built from: Clinical knowledge hubA touchscreen for check-ins, wait times, or announcements, running on low-cost hardware.
Built from: Family kioskSearchable protocols, training, and shift tools built for fire and EMS departments.
Built from: Paramedic study hub + shift schedulerTurn supplier price lists and PDF catalogs into a database your team can search, filter, and export.
Built from: Hunting regulations enginePull sensors, weather, sales, or any data feed into one dashboard with alerts when something needs attention.
Built from: Wildfire weather dashboardUse AI on sensitive files without sending them to the cloud, with models running on hardware you control.
Built from: Clinical knowledge hub
I'm a Colorado-native engineer, firefighter, and business owner.
Many of the tools on this page started as problems in my own businesses: a subscription that didn't fit how we work, or a spreadsheet that couldn't keep up. I know what it's like to pay for software every month and still work around it, so I build tools that fit the way your team already works.
Mines gave me an engineer's way of breaking a problem down and building something that holds up. The fire service has taught me to show up when I say I will, stay calm when something breaks, and fix the problem in front of me. I bring both to your project: I listen first, explain things in plain English, and stick around after launch.
We meet live, at no cost, and walk through how the work gets done today and where time and money are slipping away.
After our call, I follow up with a quote based on the scope, deliverables, and timeline. No surprises.
You get a working tool quickly, aimed at your biggest pain point first, with logins, backups, and testing built in.
New features, integrations, and AI tools get added as your business needs them.
Tell me what's eating your team's time. We'll set up a free consultation, and I'll tell you honestly whether a custom tool makes sense. If it does, you'll get a quote after our call.