Founder-Led · Production Software · Deep Rails Expertise
We build software
we'd run ourselves.
Most agencies staff your project with a bench and hand it back at the finish line. We work the opposite way: one senior engineer scopes it, writes it, and talks to you directly — no handoff. We build and run our own products — ContractorLink, BeanLink, TrackWright — so your software gets the standard we hold ours to. Rails when it fits. Whatever fits when it doesn't.
15+
years shipping production software
13+
years building on Rails
3
products we build and run ourselves
Why Octane
Built the way we build our own.
We run our own products.
We depend on the software we ship.
We're on the pager for ContractorLink, BeanLink, and TrackWright — products with paying customers. Building software we run ourselves is what makes us build yours to hold up.
The same senior engineer, throughout.
The person you hire is the person who builds it.
No offshore hand-off, no junior bench. One senior engineer scopes it, writes it, and talks to you directly — 15+ years shipping software, 13+ on Rails.
Deep Rails, matched to the job.
Usually Rails. Not always.
Current Rails and Hotwire, built the way it's meant to be — after 13+ years we know where it saves you time and where it bites. When another stack fits better, we build there too — Mountain Gap Coffee runs on Shopify.
Run it yourself, or keep us on.
Ongoing operation is an option, not the default.
We deliver software you own and any Rails team can run. If you'd rather keep the person who built it on it, Operate & Run is the retainer for that — the same on-call standard we hold our own products to.
What we've shipped
We'd rather show you than tell you.
Products we've built and still run in production, plus client work like Wildcat Off Road Park — where we built the platform and manage its infrastructure today.
Our own products
Built by Octane
Built by Octane
Built by OctaneTrackWright
Hobby & Consumer Products (slot-car racing)
One geometry engine driving a unified 2D/3D Carrera Digital track designer
Modern Rails 8 stack
trackwright.com
Client work
Client projectWildcat Off Road Park: A Custom Booking-and-Payments Platform for a Multi-Accommodation Off-Road Park
Outdoor Recreation & Hospitality (off-road park / campground reservations)
A custom Rails 8 booking-and-payments platform running an off-road park's real reservations — one engine for customer and staff bookings, with availability locking, Stripe deposits and refunds, group bookings, and card-on-file damage charges
- Custom Rails Platforms
- OctaneCare
wildcatoffroadpark.com
Client projectMountain Gap Coffee: A Hand-Built Shopify Theme for a Roast-to-Order Coffee Company
Specialty Coffee / E-commerce (DTC + Wholesale)
Hand-built on Dawn with zero build step — metafield-driven coffee pages, roast-to-order fulfillment, and CI-enforced theme quality
- Custom Shopify Development
mountaingap.coffee
What we do
Five ways to work with us.
Custom Rails Platforms
Multi-tenant SaaS and web products, built by the person who'll still be running them next year.
Who it's for: Founders and teams who need a platform built to run for years — not a prototype a rewrite replaces in one.
Learn moreLaunch Sprint (0 → 1)
From idea to a deployed product, fast — because we've taken our own 0-to-1 more than once.
Who it's for: Founders with a validated idea who need a live v1 in users' hands, not a six-month runway.
Learn moreCustom Shopify Development
Custom Shopify development by the engineers who build our own products — a storefront shaped around what you actually sell, run by the people who sell it.
Who it's for: Custom Shopify development by the engineers who build our own products — a storefront shaped around what you actually sell, run by the people who sell it.
Learn moreLegacy Rescue & Rails Upgrades
Un-stick a stalled Rails app — upgrade it, pay down the debt, and make it safe to ship again.
Who it's for: Teams on an old Rails version, afraid to deploy, working around the code instead of in it.
Learn moreOctaneCare
Operate & Run — we keep your app running on the same on-call standard we hold our own products to. No hand-off, no disappearing act.
Who it's for: Owners of a live app who want a senior engineer who knows their code — not a rotating support queue.
Learn more