STAYKool Productions

Technology Sherpas for small business.

You run the business. We carry the tech up the mountain: enterprise-level leadership, on demand, without the cost of a full-time CTO.

Who We Are

You didn't start a business to referee developers, decode a hosting bill, or guess whether a quote is fair. But someone has to, and at most small businesses that someone is you, at 11 p.m.

Think of us as your technology Sherpas. We've carried loads up this mountain for startups and Fortune 500 companies alike, through mergers, acquisitions, launches and pivots. We plan the route, carry the heavy gear, and get you to the summit.

Any of these sound familiar?

The spreadsheet that runs the company.

Your whole operation lives in one file only one person understands. We turn it into a system the whole team can use.

Three vendors, three answers.

Every quote is different and they all sound confident. We sit on your side of the table and translate.

The project that won't end.

Six months late, and the agency keeps saying "two more weeks." We read the code, tell you the truth, and get it shipped.

The growth wall.

Orders doubled and everything started creaking. We build so the next jump doesn't break you.

What We Do

The tech department you never had to hire.

On-Demand CTO

Strategy, vendor oversight, budgets and roadmaps. A seat at your table for the decisions that shape your tech, at a fraction of a full-time hire.

Software Development Support

Front-end and back-end development, utilizing the latest technologies to craft responsive, scalable, and SEO-friendly solutions.

Technical Due Diligence

Evaluate for vulnerabilities in a product situated onshore or nearshore, or seek a prompt second opinion.

DevOps & Solution Architecture

Unlock your business's full potential. From seamless integrations to scalable infrastructure design, we handle CI/CD automation, cloud migrations, networks, servers, and more.

AI Integration

Incorporate ChatGPT (or alternative AI solutions) seamlessly into your business processes and workflow, empowering your operations with advanced technological capabilities.

Growth Optimization (Growth Hacking)

Pinpoint and resolve critical areas, processes, and product deficiencies. Eliminate obstacles hindering expansion.

  • 43 Software Solutions
  • 38 Clients Served
  • 15+ Years Of Experience
  • 12 Products Rescued

How We Do It

The Route

From base camp to summit

Our mission is to offer comprehensive support to businesses as they embark on the journey of conceptualizing, designing, and developing software solutions. We stand ready to provide expert guidance every step of the way, ensuring that your vision is transformed into a robust and tailored software solution that meets your specific needs and objectives. Whether you're just starting out with a new concept or seeking to enhance existing software infrastructure, we're committed to partnering with you to achieve success.

  • 01

    Identify Goals Business analysis, defining project objectives and requirements, cost and effort estimation, process planning.

  • 02

    Design Creating User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design, building a strong brand identity.

  • 03

    Development Building projects from scratch, improving and refactoring existing products, application consolidation.

  • 04

    Testing Debugging and quality assurance, performance, functional and security testing, usability evaluation.

  • 05

    Production Release Launch day, handled. Deployment, monitoring, and a rollback plan in case anything wobbles.

  • 06

    Product Support Monitoring and maintaining customers’ systems and applications, providing technical support and troubleshooting.

Our Work

A few of the products we've built and run ourselves — live, with real customers.

RestockRun's route planner on desktop: a map beside the ZIP code, radius and store search form
RestockRun on a phone

Consumer web app · launched 2026

RestockRun

A route planner for trading-card collectors. Enter a ZIP code and it sequences nearby stores so you reach each door as close to opening as possible, then alerts you when other collectors spot a restock.

  • 100,000+ stores across 78 retail chains
  • 5 countries, 4 languages
  • Live driving times and turn-by-turn directions
  • Vue 3
  • Vuetify
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • OpenStreetMap
  • Stripe
  • DigitalOcean
A Squizz screen showing the donor wall at the Lesher Center for the Arts
Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek
A portrait Squizz sign listing upcoming shows outside the Bankhead Theater
Bankhead Theater, Livermore

Digital signage platform · since 2012

Squizz

Simple, low-cost digital signage for small businesses. Owners upload media, build a playlist and schedule it from the web; any screen running the Squizz app picks up the change on its own.

  • Since 2012 serving theaters, hotels, dealerships and clinics
  • Real-time playlist updates pushed to every screen
  • Cloud video processing, so any upload plays on any device
  • Node.js
  • MongoDB
  • Socket.io
  • AWS
  • Stripe
  • React Native
  • Vue
Turnout Shuffle's home page: Raffle draws your department can stand behind
Turnout Shuffle on a phone

SaaS for fire departments · launched 2026

Turnout Shuffle

Raffle draws for volunteer fire departments. Bring in ticket sales from a spreadsheet or Square and get a provably fair draw, a printable draw list and an alphabetical lookup in under a minute.

  • Every draw seeded by the NIST Randomness Beacon and publicly verifiable
  • Square integration, from ticket sales to the draw
  • Per-department public pages on their own subdomain or domain
  • Vue 3
  • Vuetify
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Drizzle
  • Square
  • DigitalOcean

Let's plan your climb

Tell us where you're headed. We'll come back with a route.