For owner-led businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets

Bring me the problem. I’ll bring the prototype.

I build custom software and automations for companies that run on email, paper and one person’s memory. You see a working prototype before you pay for anything.

16 yrsbuilding software

Freeworking prototype before you commit

1person, first call to last fix

6 yrsone client, SouthWest Transit

Get a free prototype

Worked withWAND Digital·General Mills·Omber·SouthWest Transit·Plymouth Metrolink

01 — Who I build for

Different industries. Same problem: the work lives in email, paper and spreadsheets.

Manufacturing

Quoting, PO entry, order status and dealer portals on top of the ERP you already run.

A quote request in, a draft quote out, step by step.

See how it works →

Transportation and logistics

Rider apps, driver apps, dispatch and schedule tools.

SouthWest Transit and Plymouth Metrolink rider apps, shipped and run for six years.

Read the story →

Restaurant and signage platforms

Self-service tools, customer-facing products, AI support.

Five years running product and development at WAND Digital, menu boards for 40 national restaurant brands.

Read the story →

Don’t see your industry? The approach is the same. Tell me what’s slow.

02 — How it works

You see it working before you spend a dollar.

Talk

Free

20 minutes. Tell me what's slow, manual, or held together by spreadsheets.
If software won't fix it, I'll tell you.

Prototype

Free

I build a working version of the fix, usually within a week.
You click through it with your team, using your real data where possible.
No obligation. If it's not useful, we stop there.

Build

Fixed price

The prototype becomes production software, scoped and priced before work starts.
Built on the systems you already run. Your team is trained on it.

Keep it running

From $1,500/mo

I watch it, fix it, and change it as your business changes.
Optional. Cancel anytime.

03 — How this started

No slide deck. A working app.

In 2010 I was a SouthWest Transit rider with no good way to know when the bus was coming. So I built the app I needed: a real-time bus tracker and schedule reference, with a backend to run it.

I emailed someone at the agency, got in front of their leadership team, and showed it working. They hired me to finish it, and I ran it for six years. They referred me to Plymouth Metrolink, and I built theirs next.

That’s still how I work. The prototype comes first.

Read the full story →

04 — The record

Sixteen years, in order.

Where I’ve been accountable, from the first bus stop in 2010 to running a product department and co-founding a company. Roles and ventures are marked as such — they are not client work.

Table Two Seven2010–2016
SouthWest Transit
I was the rider. I built the app I needed, pitched the agency that ran the buses, and they hired me to finish it.
Product, design, build · Six years, ending 2016Read more
Role2012–2021
General Mills
After General Mills acquired Blue Buffalo, a small team was put together to prototype the Buddies app — nothing like it had been done there before. I had it running in under a week, and that prototype is what went to the CMO and the CTO.
Prototype — design and build · One, inside a small teamRead more
Table Two Seven2014–2016
Plymouth Metrolink
A referral out of the SouthWest Transit app. Same rider, same problem, a second agency in the metro that wanted one of its own.
Product, design, buildRead more
Role2021–2026
WAND Digital
Owned development and product for the digital menu platform behind forty national restaurant brands. Started moving it off a ten-year-old WebForms monolith onto C# microservices in AWS, hired the team around the new stack, and shipped the first things customers could use without us. Footprint and revenue doubled.
Director of Development and Product · Team of three — two engineers and a product managerRead more
Venture2025–2026
Omber
Co-founded an async video and assessment platform, built because I was the hiring manager it was for. Designed and built it with a two-person engineering pod I recruited and ran in Ukraine, around a full-time job. One customer was a Fortune 500 software company.
Co-founder — product, design, build · Two engineers in Ukraine, one backend and one frontendRead more
Next2026 —
The next one.
Every row above started as a conversation with someone who wasn’t sure yet. Half a day in your shop is usually enough to stop being unsure.
Book 20 minutes

“Stan didn't pitch us an idea, he showed up with a working prototype. He built us a real-time bus tracker and schedule app with the backend to run it. Stan's vision and execution led to what ended up being the first transit agency schedule app in the entire Twin Cities region. He is truly one of the most talented individuals I've had the pleasure to work with.”

Matt Fyten — former Chief Operating Officer, SouthWest Transit

“When General Mills acquired Blue Buffalo, we put a small team together to prototype the Buddies app. Nothing like it had been done here before. Stan had a working prototype running in under a week, and that's what we took to the CMO and CTO. Seeing it work is what turned it from an idea into something the business committed to building.”

Ryan Horton — Digital & Technology Manager, General Mills

01 / 03

Stan Grin

Product, design and the build · Minneapolis

Table Two Seven is a software consultancy in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that builds custom software and automations for owner-led businesses, starting with a free working prototype.

Sixteen years building software — nine at General Mills, four of them also running TAAKT Watches, a brand I designed, sourced and sold through a storefront I built; five as Director of Development and Product at WAND Digital, who are a client now that I’ve left; and co-founder of Omber, where I recruited and ran the engineering pod in Ukraine that built it with me. I’m the one on your engagement, and I stand up a pod when it needs more hands.