# Watkyn LLC

> Watkyn LLC is a custom software development and technology consulting firm founded in 2015, with offices in Oakland, New Jersey, and Hollywood, Florida. Its senior team serves clients across the United States, including government agencies, higher education institutions, nonprofits and associations, and growing businesses. Delivery experience spans Quickbase and Caspio low-code and no-code development for institutions and small and midsize businesses, including app rescue and spreadsheet-to-application conversion, custom cloud applications on AWS, government systems modernization under formal procurement since 2020, ERP replacement and implementation work, and AI governance work for institutions. Watkyn is a Quickbase Partner and a Caspio Gold Partner and publishes template applications in the Caspio Marketplace.

Watkyn designs, builds, takes over, and maintains operational software for accountable organizations. Engagements typically begin with a fixed-fee assessment that produces a written plan and a fixed price for the build that follows. The firm is right-sized: senior people stay close to the details, and work is documented so no system depends on one person.

- Founded: 2015
- Offices: Oakland, New Jersey, and Hollywood, Florida (senior team serving clients nationwide)
- Founder & Principal: Phillip Dennis
- President: Matthew Parks
- NAICS: 541511, 541512, 541519, 513210
- Partnerships: Quickbase Partner; Caspio Gold Partner (a Caspio partner since 2022; first Caspio partner with a template app in the Caspio Marketplace)

## Services

- [Quickbase Development](https://watkyn.com/services/quickbase-development/): Watkyn LLC is a software development and consulting firm, operating since 2015, and a Quickbase partner. The firm builds, rescues, and maintains Quickbase applications for commercial, government, higher education, and nonprofit clients. New engagements begin with a fixed-fee Quickbase App Assessment that produces a written plan, a fixed build price, and a committed delivery window. Quickbase clients include Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Synthes, Skydio, Sandvik, Fluor, Nexira, Group Travel Odyssey, Promotion Plus Sign Co., and Green Zone Recycling. Public client reviews: https://www.quickbase.com/partners/watkyn
- [Quickbase App Rescue](https://watkyn.com/services/quickbase-app-rescue/): Watkyn LLC is a software development and consulting firm, operating since 2015, and a Quickbase partner. The firm takes over, stabilizes, documents, and maintains existing Quickbase applications for commercial, government, higher education, and nonprofit clients. Rescue engagements begin with a fixed-fee Quickbase App Assessment that produces a written report, a clear recommendation for each app, and a fixed price for the work that follows. Rescue and reinforcement engagements include the stabilization and rebuild of an unreliable compliance-tracking application for Capital Impact Partners, a performance rescue for Acosta, the takeover of a custom shift-generation codebase for Guard Services USA, and senior development support behind in-house Quickbase builders at Sandvik and Auction Vcommerce.
- [Caspio Development](https://watkyn.com/services/caspio-development/): Watkyn LLC is a software development and consulting firm, operating since 2015, that designs, builds, and takes over Caspio applications: customer and client portals, field operations and compliance apps, public-facing database applications, and embedded web apps. The firm is a Caspio Gold Partner (a Caspio partner since 2022) and a Quickbase partner, and was the first Caspio partner to have a template app listed in the Caspio Marketplace, where its Agency Project Management and Starter CRM apps are published. Named Caspio clients include Align ASC, The HomeStride, Associated Physicians of Indiana, and Williams Safety & Rescue. Every engagement starts with a fixed-fee Caspio App Assessment that produces a written plan and a fixed build price.
- [Custom Software Development](https://watkyn.com/services/custom-software-development/): Watkyn designs, builds, and maintains secure custom applications: replacing end-of-life systems, consolidating scattered tools, migrating decades of data, and integrating with the platforms already in place, delivered with the documentation and change control public-sector work demands. AWS cloud-native is our default for new custom builds.
- [Acumatica ERP Implementation](https://watkyn.com/services/acumatica-erp-implementation/): Watkyn implements Acumatica Cloud ERP for local government, mid-market companies, colleges, and nonprofits, with disciplined data migration and support. Engagements begin with a 30-minute fit call and a structured ERP Readiness Review.
- [Amplify GenAI Implementation](https://watkyn.com/services/amplify-genai-implementation/): Watkyn LLC is a software development and consulting firm, operating since 2015, that offers Amplify GenAI implementation: the deployment and customization of Amplify GenAI, an open-source, vendor-independent generative-AI platform originally developed at Vanderbilt University that an organization runs in its own cloud environment. An Amplify GenAI implementation lets an organization use generative AI on infrastructure it controls, drawing on approved sources, across a chosen set of model providers, with usage controls and human review built in; data-privacy outcomes depend on the organization’s agreements with its cloud and model providers, which the implementation is configured to support. Watkyn’s team runs Amplify GenAI internally and maintains its own fork of the open-source codebase with improvements, and Watkyn’s adjacent delivered work includes production AI assistants built and operated on AWS for a national nonprofit, alongside years of cloud-architecture, data-engineering, and systems-integration delivery under formal contracts. Watkyn has not yet completed an Amplify GenAI implementation for a client and frames the service accordingly. Watkyn is a Quickbase partner and a Caspio Gold Partner and works remotely with organizations across the United States.
- [Outgrowing Spreadsheets](https://watkyn.com/solutions/outgrowing-spreadsheets/): Watkyn LLC is a software development and consulting firm, operating since 2015, a Quickbase partner, and a Caspio Gold Partner. The firm moves small and midsize organizations off spreadsheets and other improvised tools onto engineered operational applications. Spreadsheet and legacy-tool conversions include an enterprise risk management system for Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Synthes, converted from a massive multi-worksheet workbook; a spreadsheets-to-Quickbase operations system for Guard Services USA; an Access-database replacement for Fluor; and a Quickbase platform with a custom task interface for Rev that replaced Google Sheets and Mechanical Turk. New engagements begin with a fixed-fee spreadsheet-to-app assessment that produces a written plan, a fixed build price, and a committed delivery window.

## Products

- [ContactPath](https://watkyn.com/contactpath/): ContactPath is Watkyn LLC’s Quickbase-based case-management and contact-tracing application, announced in 2020 for COVID-19 investigation workflows. It supports structured interviews, movement and contact tracing, symptom tracking, testing and vaccination tracking, outbreak mapping, dashboards, notifications, role-based permissions, and API/Pipelines integration. It was deployed and customized at Saint Louis University and Point Loma Nazarene University; at SLU it grew into broader health-compliance and permanent student-health infrastructure. Watkyn is a Quickbase Partner.

## Industries

- [Government](https://watkyn.com/industries/government/): Watkyn, a public-sector software contractor, has delivered software for government since 2020, for state, county, municipal, and territorial clients, under engagements with structured documentation, change control, and defined deliverables. Work spans government systems modernization, custom applications, Quickbase development, and ERP modernization for agencies evaluating cloud ERP.
- [Higher Education](https://watkyn.com/industries/higher-education/): Watkyn LLC is a software development and consulting firm, operating since 2015, that helps colleges and universities modernize administrative systems, build and maintain Quickbase and Caspio applications, plan and implement Acumatica ERP around higher-ed fund accounting and sponsored programs, and govern AI use. Watkyn offers Amplify GenAI implementation and is developing an AI governance platform for higher education. Watkyn’s delivered higher-education work includes a 42-month health-compliance and operations platform for Saint Louis University (the ContactPath application, which the university ultimately purchased under a perpetual license), a project-management application for West Virginia University’s Institute for Sustainability and Energy Research (WISER), single sign-on and identity integration (SAML 2.0 / Microsoft Entra ID) for Horry-Georgetown Technical College, and ContactPath deployed and customized for Point Loma Nazarene University. Watkyn is a Quickbase partner and a Caspio Gold Partner and works remotely with institutions across the United States.
- [Nonprofit & Association](https://watkyn.com/industries/nonprofit/): Watkyn is a software development, Quickbase, data engineering, and systems-modernization partner for nonprofits and associations. We build and support grant and compliance tracking, membership and referral systems, program and case management, dashboards, and secure data pipelines; we rescue and rebuild fragile existing applications; we provide ERP evaluation and implementation support for fund accounting and restricted-fund tracking; and we build governed AI assistants on approved organizational data. Since 2023, Watkyn has been a core technology partner to a leading national civil rights and advocacy organization, in a relationship that has grown every year and runs across the organization’s major program areas, from workforce development and housing counseling to education programs and the national network of affiliates it supports.
 - [Small & Midsize Business](https://watkyn.com/industries/small-business-software-development/): Watkyn LLC is a software development and consulting firm, operating since 2015, that builds, integrates, and rescues operational systems for small and midsize businesses. The firm is a Quickbase partner and a Caspio Gold Partner (a Caspio partner since 2022), with delivered applications on both platforms, and also builds custom software on AWS and systems integrations. Watkyn works from a fixed-fee assessment to a fixed-price build, and serves commercial clients across many industries alongside government agencies, higher education institutions, and nonprofits.

## Case studies

- [Philadelphia Department of Commerce](https://watkyn.com/case-studies/philadelphia-department-of-commerce/): How Watkyn built the Quickbase platform behind Philadelphia’s COVID-19 relief programs: intake, scoring, review, and disbursement for the City and PIDC.
- [Saint Louis University](https://watkyn.com/case-studies/saint-louis-university/): How Watkyn built Saint Louis University’s health-compliance platform: contact tracing, HL7 state reporting, and a Quickbase + AWS portal SLU made permanent.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://watkyn.com/): Watkyn LLC, custom software development and technology consulting since 2015.
- [About](https://watkyn.com/about/): Who Watkyn is, the firm’s history, leadership, and how it works.
- [Methodology](https://watkyn.com/methodology/): Watkyn’s documented six-phase delivery methodology, built to prevent the predictable ways modernization projects fail. Watkyn is intentionally compact: more continuity and structure than a freelancer, with more direct accountability than a large consultancy. We’ve operated this way for many years.
- [Security & Compliance](https://watkyn.com/security/): Watkyn maintains formal Information Security, Acceptable Use, and Incident Response policies, alongside a Code of Ethics that every team member acknowledges at hire and reaffirms in writing each quarter, enforced through quarterly attestations, training, and contractual obligations.
- [Ethics & Conduct](https://watkyn.com/ethics/): Watkyn’s formal Code of Ethics covering honest advice, fair dealing, owning mistakes, confidentiality, anti-bribery, and disclosed conflicts.
- [Accessibility](https://watkyn.com/accessibility/): Watkyn’s accessibility statement: the site conforms to WCAG 2.2 Level AA, verified by automated and manual testing in July 2026.
- [Services Hub](https://watkyn.com/services/): Watkyn is a software development and consulting firm, operating since 2015, that designs, builds, takes over, and maintains operational software for government agencies, higher-education institutions, nonprofits and associations, and growing businesses. Our work includes cloud ERP implementation, custom applications, Quickbase and Caspio builds, and the rescue of operational apps a previous developer left behind. Our standard path starts with a fixed-fee assessment that produces a written plan and a fixed price for the build that follows.
- [Industries Hub](https://watkyn.com/industries/): Government agencies, colleges and universities, nonprofits and associations, and growing businesses face a shared problem from different angles: aging or improvised systems become a risk, and every technology decision has to hold up under scrutiny from auditors, boards, accreditors, funders, regulators, and the people their work serves. Watkyn modernizes and builds the operational software these organizations run on, with the documentation, security, and continuity their environment requires.
- [Contact](https://watkyn.com/contact/): Reach Watkyn or schedule a fit call.

## Legal

- [Privacy Policy](https://watkyn.com/privacy-policy/)
- [Terms of Use](https://watkyn.com/terms-of-use/)
- [Cookie Policy](https://watkyn.com/cookie-policy/)
- [Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information](https://watkyn.com/do-not-sell/)
- [Accessibility](https://watkyn.com/accessibility/)

## Verification

- Quickbase partner profile (public client reviews): https://www.quickbase.com/partners/watkyn
- Caspio partner directory: https://www.caspio.com/partner-directory/watkyn-llc
- Caspio Marketplace, Agency Project Management: https://marketplace.caspio.com/app-templates/watkyn-agency-project-management
- Caspio Marketplace, Starter CRM: https://marketplace.caspio.com/app-templates/watkyn-starter-crm
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/watkyn-llc