defriction builds the small apps, dashboards, and web pages your institution actually needs — in days, not semesters, for a fraction of what you're paying now.
You know the tool you wish existed. The one no vendor makes because your department's workflow isn't big enough to be a market.
So you've been getting by. Spreadsheets where there should be a system. A $50,000/year platform where you use maybe 20% of the features. A workaround your team invented three years ago that everyone just kind of lives with.
You've thought about asking IT. The backlog is measured in semesters. You've looked at vendors. The RFP alone would take longer than building the thing.
Meanwhile the budget is tightening and someone is going to ask why you're spending $60k on software your team barely uses.
Not a massive enterprise system. Not a new SIS or ERP. The smaller stuff — the departmental tools that no vendor builds because your needs are too specific.
A dashboard that actually shows your team what matters. A small departmental app that matches how your office actually operates. A program landing page or website that can launch before the semester changes again.
Student-facing work is still on the table when it's the right answer — but the sweet spot is administrative, departmental, and close to the staff doing the work.
Built in days or weeks. For a one-time cost that fits under your procurement threshold.
A call + working prototype same day. No procurement process needed at this price.
Real progress every day. Clock stops for internal review. Typical project: a few thousand total.
Your tool, owned by your institution. No vendor lock-in. No annual contract.
$500 is under most departmental procurement thresholds. No committee. No RFP.
Book a discovery sprintdefriction was built inside higher education. We know the constraints — governance, accessibility requirements, FERPA, institutional branding, the pace at which decisions get made.
We also know that most of what slows your institution down isn't the technology. It's the process around the technology.
Small departmental apps, internal dashboards, program landing pages or websites, reporting tools, and student-facing experiences when they are the right fit.
WCAG compliance built in from the start.
Built with FERPA requirements in mind.
Yes. SAML, CAS, Shibboleth.
Same rate, no retainer.
No RFP. No six-month timeline. No vendor lock-in.