FoxCore Consulting
Own your software.
Or rent forever.
I build the system your company runs on, then hand you the code and data on day one. No rent, no per-seat meter, no landlord.
For teams of 5 to 100 who have outgrown their rented tools
Rocky Fox
Founder · FoxCore
The rental tax
Renting doesn’t make you a customer. It makes you a tenant.
The bill is the easy part to see. The harder part is what renting quietly does to your business every single day.
- 01
The forever bill
The subscription never ends, and the price only goes one way: up.
- 02
You pay more to grow
Priced per seat, so every hire is another monthly fee. The reward for scaling is a bigger bill.
- 03
Data you can't take
Your customers and history live on their servers. Try to leave and you find out it was never really yours.
- 04
Five apps, no handshake
Five or six rented tools that barely talk, so the same record gets retyped and work stalls between the gaps.
- 05
The tool that almost fits
It does most of what you need, so you bend the whole company to fit the software.
If you run a growing company, you already feel at least three of these.
Put a number on it
The Math
You’re not pricing a build. You’re paying rent.
The subscription that never ends and climbs with every seat you add. The hours your team loses to tools that don’t talk. That’s money leaving the building every month you keep renting. Here’s one real example.
What rent costs them / year
$156,000
Owning pays for itself in
3 mo
What renting takes over 5 years
$745,000
That’s what staying on rented software costs this company every year. Their own bill, counted back to them, not what FoxCore charges to replace it.
The company
A 20-person healthcare company on an EMR like Epic, losing about 20 hours a month to tools that don’t talk.
Owning is a one-time build you keep. No per-seat license that climbs with every hire, no retainer. The subscriptions are the big driver; the lost hours pile on top.
- 20 seats × $600 / mo
- +$12,000/mo
- 20 hrs/mo lost × $50 / hr
- +$1,000/mo
- Money leaving every month
- $13,000/mo
The shift
Own software built for you.
Custom software used to mean a big team and a bigger budget. AI changed that math: one builder can now shape a system around exactly how you work, then hand you the keys, yours to own.
Why renting won
Building your own cost too much and took too long, so everyone rented. It was the only sane choice.
What changed
AI gives one builder the reach of a whole team. Work that took five people now takes one, so software built around your needs finally pencils out. Yours to own, not rent.
What doesn't change
AI speeds up the typing, not the thinking. The craft and judgment are still human, still mine, still yours.
Portfolio · a system I own
I build on the same stack I'd hand you.
RouteAnchor is the first system I built to own and run in production: a field-sales planner for a real rep's day. It isn't what I'm selling you. It's proof that the way I'd build yours actually ships.
What it replaced
A rep planning the day by hand, guessing the order of stops in a notebook and Google Maps, then burning miles on backtracks.
The engine
A real OR-Tools solver routes the day, snapped to live roads through OpenRouteService. The optimization math the big carriers use, sized for one rep.
The workday it solves
Drop the day's stops, set where you start and end, and it returns the shortest real-road order, with the miles and the minutes it just handed back.
A product I built and own · go ahead and plan a day
Stops · 8
click map to add
- 1Nampa43.541, -116.564
- 2Boise NE43.634, -116.167
- 3Kuna43.492, -116.420
- 4Eagle43.695, -116.354
- 5Caldwell43.663, -116.687
- 6Downtown Boise43.615, -116.202
- 7Star43.692, -116.493
- 8Boise Bench43.591, -116.231
RouteAnchor · live
A real day, re-solved on the spot.
Add stops, set a start and end, then hit optimize, and the real OR-Tools engine re-plans the whole route on your stops. Not an animation; it's actually solving.
As entered
172mi
Saved
0mi
Hand-planned, as the stops came in. Hit optimize to see the shorter route.
Real roads, real optimization, on RouteAnchor's own OR-Tools and OpenRouteService engine. I'd build you something you own outright the same way. Book a call.
Built and running on
Rocky Fox · Founder
Meet Rocky
You'll work with the person who builds it.
I run FoxCore solo, on purpose. No account managers, no handoffs, no junior dev learning on your dime. You talk to me, and I build it around how you actually work.
One person who knows your whole system, start to finish.
What we build
Custom CRMs, internal tools, and the wiring that connects them.
Most teams run on five or six rented tools that barely talk, so leads stall and the same data gets retyped. We make it one connected system, shaped around how you work and owned by you.
Custom CRMs
A pipeline shaped to how you actually sell, not a rented template you bend yourself to fit.
Internal tools & dashboards
The admin screens and reports your team runs on, in one place you own and control.
Integrations & data plumbing
The wiring that makes the tools you already pay for finally talk, so records stop getting retyped.
Workflow automation
The repetitive steps handled for you in the background, so work stops stalling in the gaps.
Customer portals & apps
The piece your customers log into, on your domain and in your name, not a vendor's.
Data migration
Your history moved out of the rented tool and into a system that's yours to keep.
Built on what fits
What you get
Four things every build comes with.
Whatever we build, the promise underneath is the same: you end up owning a system that fits, with a clear finish and no lock-in.
Owned outright
The code, the data, and the accounts are yours in writing, from day one.
One connected system
One system that fits together, instead of five rented tools that barely talk.
Built around you
Shaped to how your team actually works, not your work bent to fit the software.
A clear finish
A fixed scope and a real end. No retainer, no meter, no subscription.
Process
Four steps. A clear finish.
A free call, one fixed number, then a clear finish. No retainer, no meter running in the background.
Call
Free · 30 minutes
A free 30-minute call. You tell me what's broken; I tell you honestly whether owning beats renting for your situation. No pitch, no obligation.
Quote
One fixed number
Once I understand the problem, you get one clear, fixed quote, scoped to your project, not an hourly meter. You decide before any work starts.
Greenlight
Simple terms
Approve the quote and we begin. Clear terms up front: no retainer, no open-ended meter running in the background.
Build & deliver
Weeks, not months
I build the system around how you actually work, show you progress along the way, and hand it over. You own the code and the data outright. Done, not a subscription.
Pricing
Priced by project size. One fixed quote, then you own it, no subscription.
Rough estimate · Custom build
$20,000 – $36,000
one-time · one fixed quote on your free call
Fixed-scope
From $5,000
One contained tool or workflow · about 1–2 weeks
- Code & data yours, day one
- Docs & a written handoff
- A clear finish, no retainer
Custom
From $20,000
A connected system for your team · about 6–10 weeks
- Where most projects land
- One fixed quote, no hourly meter
- Repo, data & accounts in writing
Large
From $80,000
A full company system, delivered in phases · about 6 months
- Each phase ships working software
- Every account & database yours
- No subscription, no lock-in
Enterprise
Custom
Several connected systems, at your pace · let's scope it
- Multiple systems, connected
- A phased roadmap, you set the pace
- You own all of it, in writing
The estimate is a rough range from project size. You get one fixed quote on a free call, with no hourly meter, no retainer, and you own everything when it ships.
FoxCore is a one-person practice, two clients at a time. Thirty minutes on a call, no pitch, and you leave with a clear read either way.
FAQ
Things people ask before the call.
Do you actually write code, or just manage developers?
You're one person. What if you get too busy, or disappear?
How long does a typical project take?
Who owns the code and data?
More questions
What size companies do you work with?
What do you build on?
Do you do rip-and-replace or work with what we have?
What happens after launch?
Your move
Let's see if it's worth owning.
Book the free 30-minute call. We'll look at what you rent now and whether owning makes sense for you. No pitch, no pressure.
Prefer to write first? Text me at 916.607.9133 or email rocky@foxcoreconsulting.com. Replies within 1 business day.