Software you can trust, built with AI.
We teach people to build real software with AI, build simple custom tools for small businesses, and make apps of our own. Careful work, done the right way.
Learn to build software you can trust with AI.
AI can make something that looks like an app in an afternoon. Knowing whether it really works, whether it keeps your customers' information safe, and how to keep it running is the real skill. We teach individuals and business owners to build real solutions for themselves or others, not quick demos that fall apart.
- Looks finished in the demo
- Customer info left exposed
- No one is sure how it works
- Breaks when something changes
- Planned before it's built
- Your customers' information kept safe
- Checked and tested before launch
- You understand it and can change it
- Plan itTurn an idea into a clear plan before anything gets built.
- Build it with AILet AI do the heavy lifting, with you in charge of the result.
- Check its workLearn simple ways to test what AI made, so nothing is a mystery.
- Keep it runningLaunch it, fix it and grow it with confidence.
Every group is different, so training is shaped around you: your goals, your pace, and the software you want to build. Tell us what you're after.
Your business, on one clean screen.
Spreadsheets, sticky notes, group texts and three apps that almost fit. We build simple custom software for small businesses that works the way you already do, so you can run the business instead of chasing it.
Scheduling and jobs
Who's going where, when, with what. No more double bookings or lost details.
Quotes and invoices
Quote, follow up, invoice and get paid from one place, with reminders that send themselves.
Clients and intake
Forms that land in the right place, and a simple record of every customer and conversation.
Inventory and orders
Know what's on hand, what's on order, and what's running low before it runs out.
Dashboards
The numbers you actually check, on one screen, instead of rebuilding a report every Friday.
Something else
If it's a workflow you repeat every week, it can probably be simpler. Let's talk it through.
Things we make.
We build and ship our own mobile and web apps, some under the IT Elves name and some as products of their own. It keeps our skills sharp and our advice honest.
Dragon Keeper
Kids learn their times tables by hatching and raising twelve dragons. Paid once, with no ads, chat or data collection.
Berean.study
Bible study plans, readings and discussion questions for church small groups, all in one place.
Hi, I'm Dave Welch.
I've spent my career building web and mobile software and leading the engineering teams that ship it. I also teach developers how to build with AI the right way: planned, reviewed and tested, so the result is something you can trust.
IT Elves is where I bring that to the people who usually get left out: small business owners who need software that fits, and anyone who wants to learn to build it themselves. When you work with IT Elves, you work with me.
Dave Welch, founderTell us what you're building.
A tool for your business, training for you or your team, or just a question. We'll reply personally, and tell you honestly whether we're the right fit.
Prefer email?
info@itelves.com