Schneider Labs

Custom software for engineered products.

Schneider Labs builds the software your product needs after it leaves the building — the systems that follow it from the plant floor to the job site.

Trey Schneider

Trey SchneiderEngineer & architect
[City, State]

The gap

Your engineering team turns a customer's drawings into a bill of materials. Your factory builds it, tests it, and puts it on a truck. Up to that point, you know everything about every unit.

Then it arrives on site, and the knowledge stops. Installers work from paper and memory. Questions come back by phone. Nobody can say with certainty what was installed where, and the record that would answer the question lives in three spreadsheets and someone's head.

Your ERP wasn't built for this, and your IT team is busy keeping it running. The gap between the factory and the field is real work, and it needs someone whose whole job is closing it.

How it works

Every engagement starts with three weeks of discovery, so you see a working prototype against your real data before you commit to a build.

Step 1

Discovery

Three weeks · fixed price

You bring the problem, your drawings, and whoever knows the process best. Three weeks later you have a working prototype built on your actual data, a data model and integration specification, a scoped roadmap, and a priced statement of work for the build. All of it is yours to keep. You could hand the SOW to any vendor. Most people hand it back.

Step 2

Build

Fixed capacity · two-week sprints

The build runs time-and-materials with a not-to-exceed cap, so you have flexibility without losing budget certainty. Every sprint ends with a demonstrated increment. Scope changes are written down and signed before they're worked. A readiness gate partway through checks that the data feeding each feature actually exists, so nothing customer-facing is promised ahead of what your systems can support.

Step 3

Pilot

One real project · then hypercare

The software goes live on a single real project with real users, followed by a defined hypercare period. You get the backlog, the source code, the runbooks, and a recorded walkthrough of every major release.

Pricing for discovery is quoted after a short call.

Work

Client names are withheld; the problems are described as they were found.

Utility-scale solar · electrical balance-of-system

Scan-to-install for a manufacturer of electrical balance-of-system

Product shipped to utility-scale solar sites with no scannable identity. Installers located and verified material by hand, and the manufacturer had no unit-level record of what was installed where. Discovery parsed the manufacturer's own engineering submittal into a complete site model and demonstrated the full scan-to-install flow on a simulated serial universe: scan a box, see its contents and destination; scan a harness, claim its job on the drawing; receive a truckload in one scan; watch block-level status roll up in real time. The build carried that into a production mobile application with offline capture, plus the factory-side specifications for QR issuance, label printing, and shipping manifests.

[TODO: copy] Second entry — a devjoi.com project or earlier work. Same shape: the situation, what discovery showed, what shipped.

About

I'm Trey Schneider. I've spent [N] years as a software engineer and architect, most recently leading engagements where a manufacturer's field problem became a production application — parsing engineering submittals, building mobile tools that work without signal, and wiring factory systems to the software installers actually use. Before that I was at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, [one line on what you did there]. [One line: degree, or the thing that got you into this.]

I started Schneider Labs because the best work I've done started with a prototype, not a proposal, and I wanted to build a company around that.

When a build needs more hands, I bring in engineers I've worked with for years and stay the architect and your single point of contact.

How I think
  • A prototype is a better conversation than a deck.
  • Customer-facing features wait for the data that feeds them.
  • Scope changes get written down before they get built.
  • The people who know the process are usually not the people in the meeting. Go find them.
  • Software that works in the office and fails in a field with no signal is not finished.
Contact

Tell me the problem in three sentences.

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