~/about
About.
A small software studio in Burlington, Iowa — run by one person who actually answers the phone.
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burlington · iowa
Hi, I'm Josh.
I build software in Burlington, Iowa — and I run Fritz Automation as a one-person shop because I think the best client work happens when the person you hire is the person doing the work.
I've been writing code for 15 years — self-taught since high school, a software development degree, and a decade-plus of shipping real tools inside real companies. Most of what I built lived behind the scenes: dashboards, integrations, automation scripts, and internal apps that replaced spreadsheet-and-email workflows someone's team had been running for years.
Somewhere along the way I became the person coworkers came to when their spreadsheet turned into a monster. The “I can just build that” person. Fritz Automation is how I do that work independently now — for businesses that need it, on their terms, with their code in their hands when we're done.
// how i work
Four things I won't compromise on.
~/values.toml
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Honest scope and fixed prices. No surprise invoices, no scope creep with a wink.
02
I write the code I'd want to inherit. Including documentation, including tests where they earn their keep.
03
You talk to me, not an account manager. Same person on the call, same person in the codebase, the whole way through.
04
You own everything I build. Code, deployment, domain, data — yours. No lock-in, no monthly hostage situation.