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Software, AI & cloud
development for Chicago, IL.

We build custom software, AI systems, and cloud infrastructure for Chicago companies. We work entirely remotely, with no physical offices. We serve every community in Illinois and all 50 states, including places without a dedicated city guide.

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The Chicago market

Chicago runs one of the most diversified economies of any American city. The futures and options exchanges that grew up in the Loop made it a global center for derivatives trading, the rail lines that converge on the city still make it the freight interchange of the continent, and food companies, consumer brands, manufacturers, and professional services firms keep headquarters downtown and along the river. Add two major airports and one of the country's largest convention economies, and almost every industry has a serious Chicago presence.

That breadth shows up in the software Chicago companies buy. Trading-adjacent firms need data pipelines and internal tooling that hold up under scrutiny. Freight brokers and 3PLs need shipment visibility, dispatch, and document automation. Headquarters operations need the unglamorous systems that actually run a business: portals, dashboards, approval workflows, and integrations between platforms that were never designed to talk to each other.

Init One Solutions is a remote-first studio, which fits how Chicago already works: the city's companies are used to distributed vendors, and engagements run on shared roadmaps and working sessions rather than badge swipes at a downtown office.

Sectors we build for

  • financial services & trading
  • logistics & freight rail
  • food & consumer brands
  • professional services
  • manufacturing
  • conventions & hospitality

Working with us from Chicago

Can you build software for Chicago logistics and freight companies?

Yes. Chicago is the country's freight interchange, and the software that market needs is well defined: shipment visibility, dispatch, rate and document automation, and integrations with TMS and EDI systems. We scope those builds around your actual operation rather than forcing a generic logistics template on it.

Do we need to meet in person to work with you in Chicago?

No. Init One Solutions is remote-first, and Chicago engagements run over video working sessions, a shared roadmap, and demo reviews. If a kickoff or milestone genuinely benefits from a day on-site in Chicago, we can travel for it, but the work does not depend on it.

How do you handle security expectations from Chicago financial firms?

Trading and financial services companies in Chicago tend to have strict data handling requirements, so we design for them up front: private cloud deployment for AI workloads, least-privilege AWS architectures, infrastructure as code that your team can audit, and no customer data leaving environments you control.

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