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BlackBadger

Where we work

A Clearwater office, clients across the country

Black Badger builds custom software for companies of roughly twenty to a few hundred people that have outgrown the CRM, project management or ERP platform they rent. We replace it with one system your company owns.

We serve every city and community in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties in person, and we work with clients from Atlanta to San Francisco remotely. The office is at 1221 Turner St, STE 206 in Clearwater. That puts most of Pinellas inside twenty minutes and Tampa across one causeway.

Most of the build runs over video and screen share, wherever your team sits. Being local matters twice. Once in discovery, when watching the work happen tells us more than any interview, and again at handover, where a room beats a webinar. Everything in between is the same whether you're down the road or out of state.

Find your city

Cities we work in

Pick your city to see how an engagement runs from there, the kinds of companies we work with, and the platforms local teams bring us. Each Tampa Bay city also covers the communities around it, listed under its name. If your city isn't here, we still work with you.

Tampa Bay, in person

  • Clearwater

    Also Largo, Palm Harbor, Tarpon Springs, Oldsmar, Dunedin, Safety Harbor, Belleair, Clearwater Beach

  • St. Petersburg

    Also Pinellas Park, Gulfport, Seminole, Kenneth City, Madeira Beach

  • Tampa

    Also Westchase, Town 'n' Country, Citrus Park

By city and platform

Replacing a specific platform in your city

If you already know which platform is holding you back, start here. Each link covers where that platform tends to break for companies like yours, what we build to replace it, and how the move runs from your city. If all you want is the platform fixed or supported, we'll tell you plainly that we're not that kind of firm.

In person

What being nearby actually changes

It changes discovery. The most useful hour of any engagement is the one where we watch the work happen instead of asking about it. That hour turns up the second monitor with the spreadsheet nobody mentions, the printout taped to the machine, and the person who's become the integration between two systems without anyone deciding it. That's what tells us whether a build fits.

Training changes too. Handover in a room, with the people who'll actually use the thing, catches objections that never come up on a call. Somebody looks at the screen and says "that's not how we do returns", and we fix it that afternoon.

The build itself doesn't change, and we won't pretend it does. Code, reviews, and the feedback loop run over screen share for local clients and remote ones alike, because that's genuinely the better way to do them. Being twenty minutes away helps at two moments in a project. The drive never shows up on an invoice.

Questions

Questions about working with a local firm

The ones that come up before the first call, answered the way we'd answer them on the phone.

Do you only work with businesses in Tampa Bay?

No. We're based in Clearwater and we have clients across the country. We name the service area because a business in Largo or Westchase can have us in the room the same week, and that's worth something during discovery and during training. Everything after that runs the same whether you're ten minutes away or two time zones out. Video calls, screen shares, and working screens you can open yourself.

Do you come onsite, and when does that actually help?

Yes, mostly during discovery and again at handover. Watching the work happen tells us things nobody says out loud, like the second screen with the spreadsheet on it, or the person who's quietly become the integration between two systems. Training goes better in a room too. The build itself doesn't benefit from us sitting in your office, so we don't pretend otherwise and we don't charge you for the drive.

We're in Tampa and you're in Clearwater. Is the bridge a problem?

No. Tampa is a normal drive from the Clearwater office and we make it regularly. A team split across the bay is actually an argument for the kind of system we build. When no single tool holds the whole picture, people end up emailing each other spreadsheets, and distance makes that worse. We work both counties every week and the causeway has never decided how a project went.

My city isn't listed. Do you still work with companies there?

Yes. We serve all of Pinellas and Hillsborough counties from the Clearwater office, and clients anywhere in the country remotely. If you're in Dunedin, Safety Harbor, Seminole, Gulfport, Citrus Park, or anywhere else, the answer is the same. Book a call and tell us what's breaking.

Does being local change what the work costs?

No. There's no travel surcharge for the counties we serve and no local discount either. Every engagement gets a strategy call and a written scope built around what the system has to do, and where you sit doesn't move that number. What being local changes is access. An onsite discovery session is a normal part of a local engagement, and nobody has to justify it as an expense line.

Which industries around here do you work with most?

Operations-heavy businesses that outgrew a subscription. Around Pinellas that's healthcare practices, professional services firms, light manufacturers along the Ulmerton and 66th Street corridors, marine and hospitality operators, and trades. Across the bay in Hillsborough it skews toward logistics and distribution around the port, construction, and medical practices. The common thread is a company running its real work in spreadsheets alongside a platform it pays for every month.

Can you work with our existing IT company or in-house developer?

Yes, and it usually goes better when we do. Your IT provider knows things about your network, your identity setup, and your compliance obligations that we'd otherwise spend weeks discovering. We're explicit about the boundary in the written scope so nobody's guessing who owns what. Every account we create is in your name from day one, so your own people keep the keys whether or not we stay involved.

Not seeing your city

We work with businesses well beyond this list, inside these two counties and far outside them. Book a strategy call and tell us where you are and what's breaking.

If you'd rather read first, custom software explains what we build, and the guide on whether you need it is written to be useful even if the answer is no.

Our office

Black Badger Software Solutions

1221 Turner St, STE 206

Clearwater, FL 33756

(727) 306-3202

david@blackbadger.biz

Serving Pinellas and Hillsborough counties from Clearwater, Florida.