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Rob, founder and developer of Layer Logic Studio.

Rob is the founder of Layer Logic Studio in Staten Island, NY, and the developer who researches, designs and builds every project himself: custom websites and business software built around how each business actually runs.

Rob, founder of Layer Logic Studio
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A · Why the studio exists

Every business has its own logic. Our job is to understand yours.

Role
Founder · developer
Programming
≈ 20 yrs
On the web
Since 2011
Studio
Est. 2017
Base
Staten Island, NY

I started Layer Logic Studio after seeing the same problem again and again: businesses bending themselves around software that was never designed for the way they work.

B · Sometimes the answer is…

  1. 01A better website
  2. 02A custom application
  3. 03An internal platform
  4. 04An automated workflow
  5. 05A system tying it together

Sometimes the answer is a better website. Sometimes it is a custom application, an internal platform, an automated workflow, or a new system tying several parts of a business together.

How I work

I enjoy programming, and I’ve done it for a long time. What I enjoy most, though, is working out how something should work and making it run efficiently: the people using it, the process behind it, where time is wasted and where information gets lost.

  • The people using it
  • The process behind it
  • Where time is wasted
  • Where information gets lost
ApartUnderstoodBetter

I have always enjoyed taking complicated things apart, understanding how they work, and putting them back together better. Software is an extension of that.

We don’t start with a product. We start with your business.

C · Where the interesting work is

  1. Starts asA conversation about a websiteUncoversa workflow worth automating
  2. Starts asA scheduling problemUncoversan operations platform
  3. Starts asA branding discussionUncoversa customer experience that needs rethinking

A conversation about a website uncovers a workflow worth automating. A scheduling problem becomes an operations platform. A branding discussion reveals a customer experience that needs rethinking. Those intersections of business, design and technology are where the interesting work is.

Where I come from.

D1 · My programming stack, as the web moved

  1. WorkflowsC++ · VBA
  2. DataSQL
  3. Front endJavaScript · HTML · CSS
  4. The web movesVue · React

I have been programming for almost twenty years. It started with automating business workflows in C++ and VBA, then heavy database work in SQL, then the front end with JavaScript, HTML and CSS, and on to Vue and React as the web moved. I have built for the web since 2011 and opened the studio in 2017. The tools turn over every few years; the habit of mastering the next one doesn’t.

D2 · My work outside software: the other side of the table

  • Architectural engineeringFirst degree
  • Construction & engineeringA large part of the career
  • Real estate & carsSales and the finance side
  • Companies of my ownStaffed physical businesses to online services
  • Defense intelligenceDepartment of Defense intelligence professional
  • Military veteranWhere most of my service was based within the special operations community

My first degree was in architectural engineering, and I spent a large part of my career in construction and engineering before moving fully into software. I have sold real estate and cars, and worked the finance side of both, not just the sales floor. I have also built and run several companies of my own, from physical businesses with a full staff to online services.

That range of work outside software, from construction and engineering to real estate, car sales, finance and running my own companies, is the point. Most developers have to be taught how a business runs before they can build for it. I have worked inside enough of them, the trades, sales, finance and operations, that reading a new workflow comes naturally. When we say we build around how your business actually works, it is because I have sat on your side of the table.

I bring a long background as a Department of Defense intelligence professional.

D3 · How I learn a client’s industry: the intelligence method

  1. 01The industryHow it really runs
  2. 02Taken apartMoney, people, handoffs, rules
  3. 03ResearchedDeep, sourced, cross-checked
  4. 04Compiled to youYour process, your numbers
  5. 05Your softwareOne of one

As a Department of Defense intelligence professional, I learned to take complex organizations apart and understand how they really work, and that discipline is behind everything I build at Layer Logic Studio. I do the same with your company: before I design a screen, I study your industry and your workflows in depth and map how they actually operate. The money, the people, the handoffs, the regulations, and the places it quietly breaks.

Then I turn what I find into software. What holds true across the industry is narrowed to your business: your customers, your process, your numbers, your way of working. The result is software that automates the work, understands your industry and is built for exactly one company in it.

Built for your industry. Detailed for your business.

Small studio. Direct relationship.

The usual relay
  1. You
  2. Salesperson
  3. Account manager
  4. A team you’ve never met
Here
  1. You
  2. Rob Understands · designs · builds

You are not passed from a salesperson to an account manager to a team you have never met. You work directly with the person who understands, designs and builds your project.

Ideas reach implementation faster, and every decision is made with the whole project in mind.

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