Modern software for the industries the big platforms forgot.
We build practitioner-first products for people doing skilled, high-stakes work — the ones left with tools built for a workflow twenty years out of date.
Whole professions run on software nobody bothered to fix. Across industries, the people who do the real work — licensed, credentialed, on the hook for every decision — are stuck with tools built for a workflow from twenty years ago. Middlemen sit between them and the work and take a cut. The companies that own those tools have no reason to change them.
We do. DatomWerks builds the modern stack for the professional, not the middleman.
We don't chase markets. We look for three things.
A professional carries the weight.
A skilled professional does the work and signs their name to it — licensed, credentialed, or personally accountable for the outcome. We build for them.
An incumbent is in the way.
A legacy tool or a middleman extracts value and stopped improving years ago. That's the opening.
The moment is now.
A rule change, a new technology, or a tipping point makes switching urgent — not someday, now.
AppraveoAppraveo is the thesis in practice — a profession stuck on twenty-year-old tools, an incumbent in the way, and a deadline forcing the switch. It's software for independent real estate appraisers: 6 tools in one subscription, built from scratch for the new UAD 3.6 standard. AI report writing, fee intelligence, adjustment support, compliance QC, practice management, and a professional website. One profession, properly served.
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Appraveo is the first. More products — for other industries — are in development.
Four rules, every product.
Practitioner-first.
Every decision serves the person doing the work — not the middleman, not the enterprise buyer.
AI where it earns its place.
We use AI when it does real work, and we're honest about where it doesn't. No theater.
Defensible by design.
Our software stands up to scrutiny — built for the rules of each industry we enter, not bolted on afterward.
Affordable on purpose.
Fair, transparent pricing. You shouldn't have to be an enterprise to afford good tools.
Kevin and Todd have spent two decades building software — and kept seeing the same thing: skilled professionals doing serious work on tools nobody had modernized in years. DatomWerks exists to fix that, one profession at a time. Appraveo, built for the appraisal industry, is the first.
Kevin has spent 20+ years building software and digital products — enterprise applications, SaaS platforms, and web systems across multiple industries. He's run his own technology and design practice since 2006, and at DatomWerks he leads the company and ships its products.
Todd is a web and software engineer with 20+ years designing, building, and supporting interactive web applications — across ecommerce, CRM, data systems, and systems analysis, including 15+ years as a chief technology officer. He architects the platforms DatomWerks' products run on.
We're just getting started.
Our first product is almost here, with more on the way. There are two ways to be part of what's next.
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Have a profession that deserves better software? We partner with domain experts, advisors, and investors to launch new products under DatomWerks. You bring the industry; we build the company.
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Need software built right? We take on a small number of engagements a year — building products for others the same way we build our own.
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