Custom software
Applications built around how your business already works, instead of the reverse. The interface, the reports, the integrations, and the database underneath all of it.
Apex is a technology solutions provider. Companies bring us something that isn't working, and we figure out what to build, build it, and stay on it. Custom software and AI consulting are the primary toolset. Thirty years of degreed engineers, out of Lafayette, Louisiana.
Custom software and AI consulting do most of the work; data and training round it out. Engagements usually start as one of these and turn into two — and we scope the whole thing before anybody writes code.
Applications built around how your business already works, instead of the reverse. The interface, the reports, the integrations, and the database underneath all of it.
Find the places AI actually earns its keep, build it into the systems your people already open every morning, then train them to run it.
Spreadsheets into real databases. Systems that never talked to each other, talking. Numbers that hold up when an executive asks where they came from.
Half- and full-day classes at your facility, grouped by skill level and built from what an interview and a survey actually turn up — not a stock curriculum.
AI has been oversold to nearly every business in America. Some of what you've been pitched is real and pays for itself in a quarter. A lot of it will quietly cost more than the process it replaced. Thirty years of shipping systems that had to work is how we tell the difference — and we tell you before you spend the money, not after.
A short assessment of your processes, your data, and the systems you already own — then a straight answer about where AI helps, where it doesn't, and what it costs either way.
The automation lands inside your existing applications and reports, on the screens your people already open every morning — not as another tab nobody remembers.
Guardrails, monitoring, and documentation so results stay checkable, plus training for the people who have to trust the output. If it can't be verified, we don't ship it.
Apex has been an engineering shop the whole way through. The industries and the technology changed; what we hold ourselves to didn't.
Custom software, tailored training, and support for Louisiana businesses whose work couldn't wait on a vendor's release schedule.
A decade of enterprise work for large industrial clients — training, help desk operations, field reporting systems, and dozens of custom programs delivered under real operational pressure. It set the engineering standard everything since has been held to.
Apex partnered with National Oilwell Varco to form DrillLogic, LLC and build a field-to-office reporting platform that ran daily at more than fifteen companies worldwide. NOV acquired DrillLogic outright, and many of the engineers who built it went with the company.
USWORKBASE for state and private agencies administering federal workforce funding. SmartRent for property managers, with accounting pushed straight into QuickBooks. Train Trax for training companies tracking certifications and expirations. iLandMan for land and lease teams working with GIS mapping. Plus reporting software built for a national industry standards body.
Still a software development corporation, still staffed with degreed and certified engineers, still in Lafayette — now putting AI into the same operational systems we've spent three decades building.
Mobil Oil, Unocal, Baker Hughes, BJ Services, Newfield Exploration, Ensco International, M-I SWACO, National Oilwell Varco, and the American Petroleum Institute — alongside state agencies, property managers, and training companies.
Some were underwritten by the businesses that needed them. Some we invested in ourselves. If you have an idea worth exploring, that's a conversation we like having.
Built for state and private agencies receiving federal funding to help displaced workers. Tracks grants, participants, summary reporting, and accounting metrics in a secure database.
Apartment rental tracking. Property managers handle tenants, assets, and leases, then push the numbers into QuickBooks for detailed accounting.
Class and certification tracking for training companies — summary results, expiration flags for managers, and the group classes that need scheduling next.
Land and lease teams enter field data, time sheets, and leasing information online, with GIS mapping produced from the same data.
Converts data from one type into another so information trapped in one system becomes useful in the next one.
Uses DataMapper to build KPI matrices any level of management can read — ad-hoc categories set by users, weighted results in executive dashboards.
Field-to-office reporting. Crews collect data on site, a central SQL database turns it into the reports, charts, and spreadsheets the office runs on.
Built for BJ Services. Field engineers gather job information on laptops and download it when the job closes; standard reports go out to personnel and clients automatically.
Built for the American Petroleum Institute and used by large service companies for regulatory reporting against an industry standard.
This process has been the same for three decades because it keeps both sides honest about scope.
Every project opens with an initial consultation. If it's a fit, we run a formal needs assessment and write it up as a scope document — specific requirements, design considerations, milestone deliverables. Once you approve that, you get a formal proposal, turnkey or T&E.
On agreement, a PM is assigned as your single point of contact and owns whether deliverables meet expectations. Scope changes get a supplemental proposal — never a surprise. QA runs continuously in-house, and your team is part of it.
When deliverables match expectations, long-term online and phone support options take over. Needs change and modifications are expected — when that happens we start the process again and pull the software back in line with where the business actually is.
Call the office or send a note about the process that's costing you the most time. First conversation is a consultation, not a pitch.
Microsoft partner · Degreed and certified engineers