About
A small studio with a simple habit: ship something real, every week.
Product7 is a software studio based in Mason, Texas. We help clients turn ideas into mobile and web applications that work on day one and keep getting better every Friday.
We are a boutique practice — small on purpose. The advantage of being small is that the people writing the code are the same people thinking about the problem. There is no layer of account managers translating your intent into someone else's work.
Most of what we do is one of three things: taking a promising idea from blank repository to real users, embedding alongside an existing team to raise the craft bar, or untangling a project that has grown faster than its foundation. The common thread is that the work is hands-on.
The firm was founded on the belief that the interesting applications get built when clients and builders collaborate honestly — tight feedback loops, shared context, and a willingness to argue about tradeoffs out loud. That is still the point.
John Gillespie
Founder & President
John has spent roughly two decades in and around software — as an engineer, a senior leader, and a consultant. He studied mechanical engineering at UT Austin, was an early director at Trilogy where he ran a business unit serving fifty-plus customers, and later served as VP of Customer Service at TESTCo.
Before Product7 he founded a medical software consulting practice in San Antonio. The pattern across all of it is the same: working closely with operators to turn ambiguous problems into software that actually runs.
Product7 is the long-running version of that work. The name is a nod to the order of priorities — the product is seven things before it is any one thing, and all of them have to be in play for the result to feel right.
How we work
Weekly cadence
Something working ships every Friday. Builds, not updates. The discipline keeps us honest and keeps the feedback loop short enough to course-correct cheaply.
Skin in the game
We write the code, own the decisions, and stay after release to watch how real users react. No hand-offs to a team that has never met you.
Tools in service of the work
We reach for boring technology first, novel technology when the problem demands it, and always the one we can still maintain two years from now.
Truthful estimates
We will tell you when something is going to take longer than you hoped. We would rather have an uncomfortable conversation up front than a worse one at the deadline.
Where
Mason, Texas. Clients everywhere. Work happens in your timezone, on your Slack, and occasionally on a porch in the Hill Country.
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