About
Thirty years of building software. Still small on purpose.
CenterSoft has carried this name since 2008, but the work goes back about three decades — through a run of companies built, run, and in some cases sold. In all that time we could have grown into a forty-person agency. We decided not to, because the thing clients value most about working with us is the thing that disappears first when a studio scales: the people who understand your business are the people writing the code.
So we take on a handful of engagements at a time. Every one of them has senior people on it from the first conversation through to the support queue two years later. If that sounds like a limitation, it is — a deliberate one, and it is why the work turns out the way it does.
Founder
Joe Sleeman
Founder
Joe has spent more than thirty years building companies — not studying them or advising from the outside, but starting them, running them, and fixing them when they broke. Some he sold. CenterSoft is the one he kept, and it is where the rest of them were built.
That history is the reason this studio works the way it does. Having been on the other side of a software purchase, and having had to live with the result, he builds with the questions an owner actually asks: what will this cost to run, who answers the phone when it breaks, and will anyone still be using it in three years.
He is also still hands-on. The data pipelines behind our own products are his, and he leads product strategy on every client engagement — which means the person you scope the work with is the person who understands how it will be built.
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