Custom software for Austin businesses, built by operators.
Higher Agency is an AI-native software shop for founder-led companies. We build the CRM, marketing machinery, and dashboards your business actually needs, in weeks, at a fraction of what an Austin agency or dev shop charges. And you own every line of it.
Why Austin businesses come to us
Austin is an operator town. CPG and food-and-beverage brands scaling out of farmers markets into national distribution. Real estate and services firms growing faster than their spreadsheets. Ecommerce companies duct-taping Shopify to Klaviyo to Meta Ads and losing hours every week in the gaps. The pattern is the same: the business has outgrown its software, and the quotes for custom work are enterprise-sized.
That math changed. AI-native development collapsed the cost of building custom software, and we pass that collapse to you instead of pocketing it as margin. One of our builds replaced a platform a client had spent fourteen years and roughly $400K on. Another rebuilt and relaunched a nationally distributed craft spirits brand's website in a single day. This is what the new economics look like when someone actually shares them.
What we build
CRMs shaped like your sales process instead of someone else's. Marketing dashboards that pull Shopify, Google Analytics, Meta, and Klaviyo into one screen. Ad creative and campaign machinery that runs itself. Deck and proposal engines your whole team can use. Website platform migrations off WordPress or a locked-down custom build. If it's software your business runs on, it's probably in range; the FAQs cover what isn't.
Operators, not a dev shop
The founder spent twenty-five years running sales and marketing teams, including CMO work for consumer brands, before building software for a living. That matters in a city full of agencies: you describe the problem in business terms, and we already understand it. No discovery retainer, no translation layer, no hourly meter running while you explain what a pipeline review is.
Working with us from Austin
Most first conversations are a thirty-minute call, and most builds go live in two to six weeks with a fixed quote up front. We work with Austin companies on site when it helps and remotely when it doesn't. Everything we build runs in your accounts, on your data, with your name on the code, so you're never locked in to us or to anyone else.