Based in Birmingham, Alabama
We help small businesses stop wasting hours on manual work.
Reporting automation, system integration, and small custom tools — built around how your business already runs.
No new software to learn. No months-long overhaul. Just the manual parts of your week, handled.
What we do
Three ways we get time back for your team
Each one starts small, on purpose — we'd rather fix one real problem well than sell you something bigger than you need.
01
Reporting automation
If someone on your team spends part of every week pulling the same numbers into a spreadsheet, that report should build itself. We set it up once so it just runs — accurate, on time, and off your team's plate for good.
02
Business system integration
QuickBooks, your scheduler, your point of sale, your spreadsheets — if the same information gets typed into more than one of them, that's hours and mistakes you don't need. We get your existing tools talking to each other.
03
Custom internal tools
Sometimes the fix isn't a report or a connection — it's one small tool built for the one specific headache your team deals with every week. We build exactly that, and nothing bigger than it needs to be.
Scope
The size of job we take
These aren't client case studies — they're examples of scale, from a few hours a week to a whole workflow.
A few hours every week
Say someone spends every Friday pulling the same numbers into a spreadsheet. That's a simple job: the report can build itself, same format, no weekly pulling.
The same data, typed twice
Say the same customer gets typed into scheduling software and accounting software, every time. That's a moderate job: the two systems can talk so there's one entry, no duplicates.
Several places, one set of numbers
Say invoicing spans a few locations and a remote team, all on spreadsheets that never quite match. That's the bigger end: one workflow so everyone is looking at the same numbers.
Why Catalpa
Most of these problems don't need new software.
They need someone who understands the business process well enough to fix it properly — not just bolt on a tool and hope it sticks. That's the gap we fill.
No months-long "digital transformation" engagement. No jargon. No rebuilding things that already work fine. We start with one report, one connection, or one tool, prove it earns its keep, and go from there.
- Small scope first. One real problem, solved well, before anything bigger is on the table.
- Plain language. You'll never need a glossary to understand what we're building or why.
- Fast. Most of what we build ships in days or weeks, not quarters.
Based here
Rooted in Birmingham, Alabama
Catalpa Consulting is based in Shelby County, in the Birmingham metro, and works hands-on with businesses across Central Alabama. We're just as glad to work remotely with a business anywhere the fit is right — either way, you get someone who actually learns how your business runs, not a support queue.
Our founder, Alex, brings 20+ years in software and systems consulting, with the last decade-plus focused on enterprise data engineering — designing and building production data platforms, warehouse architectures, and system integrations for insurance, banking, and SaaS companies.
Get in touch
Tell us what's eating your team's time.
Every engagement starts with a free, no-obligation conversation. We'll walk through the bottleneck and give you a plain answer on whether we can help, at no cost to you. Pricing depends on scope and comes after that conversation, never before.
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