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Every task has a smarter way to do it. We find it and build it.

VanHaus builds custom software and AI for small businesses. Tell us what's eating your time. We'll automate it, streamline it, and make it run without you.

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Serving
New Jersey, the NYC area, and clients anywhere
Building
Since 2020. 50+ projects shipped.
Discovery
Always free. 30 minutes, no pitch deck.

Free discovery call

Discovery is always free.

Tell us where your time and money go. We'll tell you what we'd automate, what we'd build, and what it would cost. No pitch deck.

  • 30 minutes on a call
  • No cost, no obligation
  • A fixed price before we build
  • You talk to the people building it
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Where to start

Tell us what's slowing you down.

You know your business. You know what's broken. Tell us the pain point and we'll build the fix.

  • Missing calls and leads

    AI receptionist that answers every call

  • Quotes take hours

    Proposal generator that prices jobs in minutes

  • Typing the same data into 3 systems

    Integrations that sync it automatically

  • Reports built by hand

    Dashboards that update themselves

  • Staff chasing info and checklists

    Internal tools built around your workflow

  • Old or slow website

    A fast site that actually brings in customers

Don't see yours? That's normal. Most of what we build didn't exist until someone asked.

Work

Things we've built.

Live recreations of real tools, with made-up data. Clients are described by industry until they say it's fine to use their name.

HVAC & generator company, NJ

Demo coming soon

An AI receptionist that picks up every call

Problem
Calls came in while the crew was on job sites. Voicemails piled up and some leads never called back.
What we built
An AI phone receptionist built on Twilio and OpenAI Realtime. It answers every call, collects job details, routes urgent calls to a person, and emails a summary after each one.
Result
1,000+ calls answered so far.
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Tri-state area HVAC & generator company

Generator proposals in minutes, not hours

Problem
Every quote was rebuilt by hand from a spreadsheet, a Word template, and the owner's memory. Slow quotes meant missed bids and jobs lost to faster competitors.
What we built
A proposal generator. Describe the job by form, chat, photos, or a bid PDF, and get a priced, branded proposal the customer signs online.
How it learns
Built on 121 of their past proposals, with every new one added back in. Repeated price edits become new pricing rules the owner approves.
Result
Hours by hand became minutes. Tested against a real job they had won, it landed on the exact same total.
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Tri-state area HVAC & generator company

An AI operations manager that watches 18 systems at once

Problem
The owner's picture of the business was spread across more than a dozen systems: jobs, money, sales, email, meetings, and timesheets. He checked each one by hand, and problems surfaced late, usually by accident.
What we built
A private AI command center connected read-only to 18 systems, including the receptionist, proposal tool, and QA/QC app we built for them. It sends a morning briefing, flags what needs attention, and texts critical alerts.
Result
One morning briefing instead of a dozen systems to check.
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E-commerce football pad maker, supplier to the NFL

Website sales into their accounting system, without retyping a thing

Problem
Years of their books live in Sage 50, an older desktop accounting system, so switching wasn't an option. But it couldn't connect to their website, so 4,500 to 5,000 online orders a year were re-keyed by hand.
What we built
A WordPress plugin that turns each day's orders into files Sage 50 accepts, including custom shoulder pads where one product stands for 360 possible inventory SKUs. They import cleanly, as if someone had keyed them in.
Result
80 to 90% less time spent on reporting. The files are in the inbox every morning.
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NJ business news publisher

Hundreds of profile pages from one spreadsheet

Problem
The publisher runs influencer lists across many categories, some with more than 700 people. A page for each person makes the list far more shareable and brings in more page views and revenue, but it meant building hundreds of articles by hand.
What we built
A WordPress importer. Drop in the master spreadsheet and it creates every article with the same formatting and the matching headshot, in alphabetical order so the list pages through cleanly.
Result
A list with hundreds of people goes from spreadsheet to scheduled articles in one sitting.
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See all our work
50+
projects shipped
Since 2020
building for businesses
1,000+
calls answered by our AI
80 to 90%
less reporting time for multiple clients

How we work with you.

  • You talk to the person building it

    No account managers in the middle. Questions go straight to the engineer.

  • A fixed price before we start

    You get a clear scope and a number up front. The number doesn't move unless the scope does.

  • You own the code

    Everything we build lives in your accounts and your repo. Leave whenever you want and take it with you.

  • Support if you want it

    An optional monthly retainer keeps things running and adds what you need next. No pressure either way.

How it works

Three steps. The first one is free.

  1. 1

    Free discovery

    We talk for 30 minutes about where your time and money go. No cost, no pitch deck.

  2. 2

    Build

    We build it with you, with demos along the way so there are no surprises.

  3. 3

    Launch and support

    We launch it, train your team, and stick around to keep it running.

Book a free discovery call

30 minutes. No cost, no obligation.

Tim Van Cauwenberge and Joe Chiusano, co-founders of VanHaus.

Who we are

Two friends who build things.

We're Tim and Joe. We met freshman year at Monmouth University, lived together all four years, and have been best friends since. Now we build things for businesses together.

  • Tim Van Cauwenberge

    LinkedIn

    Builds it.

    CS degree, former D1 track captain, and six years building custom software and AI tools for real businesses.

  • Joe Chiusano

    LinkedIn

    Makes sure we solve the right problem.

    Years in B2B sales and account management. He'll be the one asking the questions that get to what's actually slowing you down.

Next step

Book a free discovery call.

Tell us what's slowing you down. We'll get back to you within one business day.

Email
hello@vanhaus.dev
Where
Serving New Jersey and the NYC area, and working remotely with clients anywhere.
Cost
Discovery is always free.

We reply within one business day.