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Ingenia is a Houston, Texas software development and AI agency with a second HQ in Mexico City. We build ground-up custom applications, field and operations software, and AI-native internal tools for industrial, oil and gas, and energy operators across Houston, Austin, Dallas, and Mexico. 30+ years of work. ingenia.com.
Software Development
Software that ships in weeks, runs for years.
Custom software, built from a blank page and shipped in weeks. We build with AI across the entire process, with the safeguards that keep production stable.
Apps shipped
500+
Lines of code
20M
Websites built
1,500
Since
1996
Capabilities
Five things we ship.
Every engagement is different. Most of the work falls into these five buckets.
Ground-up applications for how your business really runs
We build custom software from a blank page, around how your business works today. The kind of software your team relies on day in and day out.
Custom portals, dashboards, and admin tools that replace your spreadsheet stack
Self-serve customer and partner portals with SSO
Quote, PO, and invoice visibility across ERP and CRM
Internal tools your ops team opens every morning
Audit trails finance and legal can defend
Field and operations apps
Apps for people in trucks, on rigs, on plant floors, in clinics, and in the warehouse. Offline-first. Built for gloves and glare. Designed so a 20-year field tech can use them without retraining.
iOS, Android, and rugged-device support
Offline sync with conflict resolution
Barcode, QR, and photo capture workflows
Digital forms that replace paper inspections and tickets
Dispatch, routing, and job-site check-in
AI built into the software from the start
The software we ship has AI where it earns its keep. Pulling data out of documents. Drafting work orders. Answering questions grounded in your own SOPs. Real tooling built into the workflows your team already uses.
Retrieval-augmented answers grounded in your own documents
Drafting and summarization inside existing workflows
Document and form extraction wired to your ERP
Multi-vendor by design, matched to the job
Agentic workflows for the repetitive work humans hate
Integrations with the systems you already run
Most of the value lives in the plumbing. We integrate the ERPs, CRMs, and line-of-business systems your team already runs on, including the custom one a former engineer built in 2011. We document everything, so you own the work after we leave.
ERP and CRM integrations across your existing stack
Modern, legacy, and file-based interfaces
Event-driven pipelines when they fit the workload
Data contracts and schema versioning
Operational runbooks owned by your team
Modernizing the app that's holding you back
Your business depends on an app written in 2009 by someone who left. We phase the migration so value ships every sprint. You never run two systems pretending to be the source of truth.
Cloud billed at cost, straight to your own accounts
Phased rewrites that ship value every sprint
Infrastructure as code your team can maintain
Observability, cost controls, and on-call setup
Migration plans that ship value every quarter
Engagement
How the work goes.
Scope the real problem
Two weeks on-site and on calls. We map the workflow your team runs today, straight from the people doing the work, and leave with a priced plan in hand.
Weeks 1 to 2
Ship a working slice
First end-to-end slice of the product in production. Small, useful, honest. Something your team can log in to and use on day one.
Weeks 3 to 6
Iterate against real use
Weekly releases. Daily fixes. We sit in the same channel as your ops team. Feedback goes straight into the product that same week.
Weeks 7 to 16
Hand it over cleanly
Runbooks, docs, and an on-call handoff. You own the code, the infra, and the story. We stay available as backup.
Week 16+
Proof
Work that ships.
A sample of software we've built with industrial, energy, and enterprise teams.