Technology that actually helps.
Websites, AI, automation, and the digital systems underneath — designed around how you actually work, not around whatever's fashionable this year.
What are you trying to improve?
Pick the thing that's actually bothering you. We'll work backwards from there.
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Get found
Nobody can find us
A website that works, a Google listing that shows up, search basics done properly.
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Save time
We do the same thing over and over
AI and automation pointed at the repetitive work — set up, tested, handed over.
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Build something
The tool we need doesn't exist
Internal tools, small software, and the systems that hold a business together.
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Make it look right
It looks older than we are
Brand and digital design, so the thing you built reads as seriously as you take it.
What we do
Two things make up most of our work. The rest exists because projects rarely stop at the edges we drew.
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Website & digital presence
A site people can find and use, plus the listings and search fundamentals that decide whether anyone sees it. Google Business Profile, Yelp, structured data, the parts most sites skip.
Packages from $450 →
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AI & automation
AI that actually saves your business time. The right tool picked, set up, and handed to your team with prompts that work on your real jobs — not a demo of somebody's chatbot.
Sessions from $175 →
Use the simplest tool that actually works.
Plenty of people will sell you AI because AI is what's selling. We'd rather start with the problem and pick the tool afterward.
Sometimes that's AI. Sometimes it's automation, a website, a small piece of software, or a better-designed process. Sometimes it's a spreadsheet. Occasionally the honest answer is a phone call, or hiring somebody.
If AI isn't the answer to your problem, you get told that instead of sold something. That's not modesty — it's the only way the work is worth what it costs.
What working together looks like
Understand
A short conversation about what's actually causing friction. Free, and honest about whether we're the right fit.
Design
We work out the simplest useful system and write down what's in scope — and what isn't — before anything gets built.
Build
Implementation in reviewable pieces. No black box, no big reveal at the end.
Hand over
Documented in plain language, in accounts you own. You should be able to run it without us, and fire us without losing anything.
Where things start
Standard work has a price on it. Custom work gets scoped in a conversation first, so the number means something.
Built in Benicia, California.
Daedalus is a founder-led technology company. Small on purpose: the person who scopes your project is the person who builds it, and the person you email back.
We work across the Bay Area in person and remotely everywhere the work makes sense.
What's taking too much time?
Tell us what's frustrating, repetitive, confusing, missing, or simply not working. If technology isn't the answer, we'll say so.