One person. The whole picture.
You work directly with the person understanding your business, making the decisions and writing the software.
Independent by design2–4 partnerships a year ↗ Ambitious software.
Ambitious software.
Personal ownership.
Your business has a next chapter. I help you build it.
Product strategy, hands-on engineering, and one partner who owns the whole picture.
Work directly with Ryan Howard, founder of Prism Software.
Trusted with the software behind real businesses.
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What we can build together
Better software.
A stronger business.
You bring the ambition and the business knowledge. I bring the product thinking and engineering to move it forward.
Turn your idea or important business process into software that fits. I shape the roadmap, design the foundations and build the product with you.
A product built around the way your business works.
Strong foundations. Room to grow.
Product thinking, engineering and ownership, together.
A different kind of working relationship
Big on responsibility.
Small by choice.
A roadmap with a reason.
Every stage connects back to what matters commercially. Clear priorities, considered trade-offs and useful progress.
Ownership beyond launch.
With ongoing involvement agreed, I stay close to the product, its performance and the next opportunities for your business.
Selected work
Real complexity.
Useful outcomes.
From work in the field to the systems behind a growing product. A few examples of taking ownership, layer by layer.
Field operations
10+inspectors using the platform in day-to-day field work
◈Capture offline◈Sync records✓Review centrally
Workflow illustrationCrane inspections that work beyond mobile coverage.
A custom inspection app that replaces paper records and keeps 10+ inspectors working, even without mobile coverage.
Payments & operations
3major payment providers brought into one operational workflow
◈Stripe · PayPal · GoCardless◈Connect & reconcile✓One operational view
Workflow illustrationA clearer view of payments across three providers.
One system to bring together payments from Stripe, PayPal and GoCardless, match the records and help the team resolve exceptions.
Financial software
End-to-endtechnical ownership from architecture through production
◈Live market data◈Signals & processing✓Paper trading
Workflow illustrationThe engineering behind a real-time market platform.
Technical ownership of a growing financial product: live market information, trading signals, simulated trading and connections to brokerage services.
Industrial software
Long-termplatform development, ownership and ongoing support
◈Asset records◈Specialist inspections✓Business portal
Workflow illustrationAn industrial portal shaped around specialist work.
A custom operational portal designed around industrial inspection processes, asset records and business-specific workflows that generic software did not fit cleanly.
From first conversation to what’s next
Build with direction.
Grow with confidence.
You don’t need to arrive with all the answers. That’s what a good partner is for.
We start with the business, agree what matters, and build in useful stages. You see progress, understand the decisions and have a clear view of what comes next.
Start with a conversationThe person behind Prism
Your product partner.
Personally invested.
I’m Ryan. The person you meet is the person who builds your software.
My work spans field inspections, industrial operations, payment systems and real-time financial software. I get close to the business and carry that understanding through every layer of the product.
I’m also taking my own product, Prospektiv, to market. I understand the decisions that come with building a business: what to invest in, what to leave out, and what needs to work when customers arrive.
Always going deeper
Applied AI & RAG · System performance · Thoughtful architecture
Ryan HowardFounder · Product & engineering
From the other side of the table
“Prism are great communicators, always happy to help and understand our vision. I would highly recommend Prism to anyone.”
A few practical details
Good questions.
Straight answers.
What kind of projects are a good fit?
Substantial products, operational systems or existing platforms that need clear technical ownership. The best fit is a business with a meaningful problem, a decision-maker who wants to be involved, and the appetite to build it properly.
Will I work directly with you?
Yes. I’m Ryan, the founder and the person doing the work. I take on 2–4 substantial projects each year so I can understand the business and stay involved across strategy, architecture and delivery.
Do I need a specification or a technical background?
No. Start with what is happening in your business and what you want to make possible. I’ll help work through the options and define a sensible first scope.
How do you price a project?
Scope and investment are agreed after understanding the outcome, complexity and level of ongoing involvement. We start with a conversation about the work, rather than a fixed menu of features.
A small number of meaningful partnerships Something important
Something important
to build?
Tell me what you’re working towards.
We’ll work out what a better next chapter could look like.
Let’s start with your business.
You don’t need a technical brief. A little about your idea, your current challenge and where you want to go is a good place to start.
ryan@prismsoftware.com.auDirect to Ryan.From the first message to the work itself.