# Black Airplane > Black Airplane is a product development company in Atlanta. Our senior, 100% US-based team designs, builds, and runs custom software, from web and mobile apps to the platforms and AI behind them. One senior product team of designers and engineers turns a business's goals into working software quickly, puts it in real people's hands early, improves it with every release, and keeps running it for years. The team is 100% based in the USA, every member a full-time employee, and clients own their code, data, and cloud accounts. Contact: talk@blackairplane.com, +1-404-939-2544. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, with a team spread across the US, working with companies all over the world. Every URL below is canonical on https://blackairplane.com/. ## Services - [Services](https://blackairplane.com/services): Product strategy, design, and engineering delivered by one accountable in-house team. - [AI Development and Automation](https://blackairplane.com/services/ai-development): Production AI features: evaluation benchmarks, provider fallbacks, structured outputs, cost metering, and human review. - [Web and App Development](https://blackairplane.com/services/web-development): Black Airplane is a product development company: one senior, 100% US-based team designs and builds web and mobile apps, the platforms beneath them, and the systems they connect to. - [Mobile App Development](https://blackairplane.com/services/mobile-development): iPhone, iPad, and Android apps in Flutter, native Swift and Kotlin, or React Native, built with the back office and integrations behind them. - [Embedded Engineering Teams](https://blackairplane.com/services/staff-augmentation): Senior, full-time, USA-based engineers and designers embedded in a client's team, from one or two people to ten or more. - [Product and UX/UI Design](https://blackairplane.com/services/product-ux-ui-design): Research, product design, and design systems that ship alongside engineering rather than ahead of it. - [Application Modernization](https://blackairplane.com/services/application-modernization): Replatforming and modernizing mature applications without discarding the operational knowledge inside them. - [Atlanta Custom Software Development](https://blackairplane.com/american-website-development): Atlanta custom software development: web platforms, mobile apps, and AI features designed, built, and run by a senior, full-time, USA-based team. ## Case studies - [Our Work](https://blackairplane.com/work): Case studies from platforms Black Airplane designed and built. - [Doorstep One: Field-Service Software That Proves Every Job](https://blackairplane.com/work/doorstep-one): Field-service software for valet trash that we designed, built, and operate: photo and GPS proof of every pickup, hourly problem checks, and a report for every property manager each morning. - [Equifax: A Flutter Foundation for a Flagship Credit App](https://blackairplane.com/work/equifax): A senior Flutter expert embedded with Equifax’s mobile team on myEquifax, setting one architecture for three teams and taking Auth0 sign-in and native payments to completion. - [StoneLoads: Sourcing Natural Stone in Minutes Instead of Months](https://blackairplane.com/work/stoneloads): A B2B ecommerce marketplace for natural stone where buyers check out several truckloads in about two minutes and Stripe Connect pays each supplier once the stone is picked up. - [Cady: One Design System for a 25-Year-Old Brand](https://blackairplane.com/work/cady-design-system): A design system in Figma that defines one set of foundations, components, and patterns for a school photography company’s sites, keeping a brand built over 25 years. - [Pure Athlete: A Stalled Platform, Relaunched in Eight Weeks](https://blackairplane.com/work/pure-athlete): A stalled subscription video platform taken over from another team, kept running for members, and relaunched on Sanity eight weeks later. - [ProContent by Renewed Vision: A Church Media Library, Searchable in Milliseconds](https://blackairplane.com/work/renewed-vision): A subscription media library for churches, built from scratch, with 6 ms average search across 17,000+ assets, animated previews, and downloads straight into ProPresenter. - [Millenia3: Legacy Broadcast Traffic Software, Replaced From Scratch](https://blackairplane.com/work/millenia3): Portkey, the web platform that replaced Millenia3’s legacy broadcast traffic software, from quotes and production to traffic instructions and QuickBooks invoicing. - [Crisp: A Private Case-Referral Network for Law Firms](https://blackairplane.com/work/crisp): Crisp Connect, a private web app where law firms refer cases to one another, designed in three weeks and built and shipped continuously since 2023. - [Gulf Partyline: A Political CRM, From the Desk to the Phone](https://blackairplane.com/work/gulf-partyline): A Flutter app that puts the Partyline political CRM on its users’ iPhones, built on the existing API and launched on time and within budget. - [Lead Small by Orange: A Ministry Curriculum App, Rebuilt in Four Months](https://blackairplane.com/work/lead-small-app): Orange’s app for small group leaders, rebuilt in Flutter with 99% of its code shared and launched in four months, in time for the 2024 conference, to hundreds of thousands of users. ## Articles - [Articles](https://blackairplane.com/articles): Product strategy, design, engineering, and practical AI insights from the team. - [The Strangler Fig: How to Replace Software Your Business Runs On](https://blackairplane.com/articles/how-to-replace-legacy-software-without-a-rewrite): How the strangler fig pattern replaces legacy software without a risky rewrite: build beside the old system, run both, prove they match, then delete. - [Seven Disciplines That Make AI Features Production-Ready](https://blackairplane.com/articles/production-ready-ai-features): A first-hand account of shipping a production AI feature: evaluation benchmarks, provider fallbacks, structured outputs, cost accounting, and human review. - [How to Choose a Custom Software Development Partner (and When Not to Choose Us)](https://blackairplane.com/articles/how-to-choose-custom-software-development-partner): How to evaluate a custom software development partner: real cost ranges, fixed-fee clarity, testing, launch ownership, and when an agency is the wrong fit. - [Dive Deeper into AI at Our Next Cherokee Tech Meetup](https://blackairplane.com/articles/july-30-2024-cherokee-tech-meetup): An AI panel with industry leaders at the July 30, 2024 Cherokee Tech Meetup, hosted by Black Airplane and the Cherokee Office of Economic Development. - [Join Us at the Inaugural Cherokee Tech Meetup](https://blackairplane.com/articles/join-us-at-the-inaugural-cherokee-tech-meetup): Black Airplane and the Cherokee Office of Economic Development launch the Cherokee Tech Meetup, a free series for anyone in tech north of Atlanta. ## Authors - [David Leggett](https://blackairplane.com/authors/david-leggett): Partner, Technology at Black Airplane. 3 articles. - [Michael Caldwell](https://blackairplane.com/authors/michael-caldwell): Partner, Operations & Business Development at Black Airplane. 2 articles. ## Company - [Black Airplane](https://blackairplane.com/): A product development company in Atlanta. One senior, 100% US-based team designs, builds, and runs custom software, from web and mobile apps to the platforms and AI behind them. - [About](https://blackairplane.com/about): Who Black Airplane is, how the team is structured, and the founders behind it. - [Contact](https://blackairplane.com/contact): Start a conversation about a product, platform, or rescue. ## Careers - [Careers](https://blackairplane.com/careers): Open roles at Black Airplane. - [Staff Product Designer](https://blackairplane.com/careers/staff-product-designer): Black Airplane is hiring a Staff Product Designer to lead client engagements end-to-end and help build an AI-native design practice. Remote (US). - [Staff Software Engineer (Fullstack)](https://blackairplane.com/careers/staff-software-engineer-fullstack): The Staff Software Engineer at Black Airplane will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical foundation of our clients' products. ## Optional - [Black Airplane and Tyrannosaurus Tech Are Joining Forces](https://blackairplane.com/articles/black-airplane-acquires-tyrannosaurus-tech): Black Airplane has acquired the Tyrannosaurus Tech brand, bringing a respected Atlanta digital product brand into the next chapter of Black Airplane. - [Black Airplane Achieves Top-Tier Status in Stripe Partner Program](https://blackairplane.com/articles/black-airplane-ascends-to-the-top-tier-of-stripe-partnership): Black Airplane has achieved Stripes highest partner achievement: the Stripe Services Implementation Specialization - [Black Airplane Achieves Diamond Status as a Laravel Partner](https://blackairplane.com/articles/black-airplane-achieves-diamond-status-as-a-laravel-partner): Black Airplane is now a Diamond Partner in the Laravel Partner Program, a milestone in our work building business-critical Laravel platforms. - [Awarded Again: 2023 Best Places to Work in Atlanta](https://blackairplane.com/articles/awarded-again-2023-best-places-to-work-in-atlanta): The Atlanta Business Chronicle named Black Airplane one of Atlanta's Best Places to Work for the third year running, one of 100 companies honored. - [Black Airplane Climbs Higher on the 2023 Inc. 5000 List](https://blackairplane.com/articles/black-airplane-climbs-higher-on-the-2023-inc-5000-list): Black Airplane made the 2023 Inc. 5000 for the second year in a row, the ranking of America's fastest-growing private companies. - [Partners](https://blackairplane.com/partners): Technology partnerships: Laravel, Stripe, Shopify, Sanity, Algolia, and Flutter. - [Laravel Partner](https://blackairplane.com/partners/laravel): Featured Diamond Laravel partner headquartered in Atlanta, with a senior team 100% based in the USA: new Laravel platforms, upgrades and takeovers, admin panels, APIs, billing, search, real time, and… - [Stripe Partner](https://blackairplane.com/partners/stripe): Stripe Verified Partner at the Premier Services tier, headquartered in Atlanta, with a senior team 100% based in the USA: Stripe Connect marketplaces, subscription and seat-based billing, bank… - [Shopify Partner](https://blackairplane.com/partners/shopify): Custom commerce built on Shopify. - [Sanity Partner](https://blackairplane.com/partners/sanity): Sanity CMS development from a verified Sanity agency partner headquartered in Atlanta, with a senior team 100% based in the USA: content architecture, custom Studio tools and plugins, visual editing… - [Algolia Partner](https://blackairplane.com/partners/algolia): Search experiences built on Algolia. - [Flutter Partner](https://blackairplane.com/partners/flutter): Flutter apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android, from new products to Flutter engineers embedded in your team. - [Privacy Policy](https://blackairplane.com/privacy): How Black Airplane handles personal data.