Web apps, mobile apps, dashboards, and integrations for fire departments, police, cities, custom home builders, airports, and small businesses across the Greater Cincinnati region.
Selected clients & partners
Fire districts, police departments, cities, resorts, builders, and integration partners — running on software we designed, built, and still support.
Where we work
Eight verticals, one hands-on studio. We speak your operational language before we write a single line of code.
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Case studies
Real software running for real teams — not screenshots of concepts. Each of these is live, in daily use, and supported by us.
From Newport Fire/EMS on the battalion chief’s laptop, to Bellevue-Dayton on the station iPad, to C&H Builders’ project dashboard in a superintendent’s hand — full-stack web apps that scale from dispatch desk to job site.
See the work
Modern marketing site + RFQ form with drawing uploads for a Newport KY metal shop.
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Resident + admin portal + iOS companion for a FL waterfront co-op.
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Full emergency services portal for the City of Newport, KY — Active911 dispatch, Aladtec scheduling, apparatus checks, and personnel management, all in one place.
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K24 airport site: runway diagrams, live weather, fuel pricing, and services list for pilots.
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Dispatcher app with Twilio SMS, Google Maps routing, and direct AAA call ingest.
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iOS app that turns Philips Hue bulbs into a physical VFR/IFR aviation weather beacon.
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Somerset KY boutique gym — native iOS app, member portal, class schedule, check-in.
Case studyLocal Government
Predictive analytics, digital permits, volunteer & workforce portals, and AI-assisted dispatch — all under one roof, custom-built for the way your city, county, or fire district actually runs. Built by the same person your dispatcher can text at 3am.
12-month incident trends, response-time analytics, hourly-demand patterns, and Fire vs EMS workforce-balance scoring. Data pipeline runs against live NERIS, Aladtec, and CAD feeds. Chief officers see next month's staffing shortfall today — not on the 15th.
Live examples running for Newport: open-burn permits with staff approval workflow & certificate generation, ride-along program applications with age/guardian consent logic, paramedic/EMT job applications with document uploads. Every form emails staff and self-serves citizens.
Applicants track their own status from application to hire, upload licenses, sign digital forms, and receive status emails automatically — while your HR staff sees everything on one dashboard. Same pattern powers ride-along signups and community program registration.
Live Active911 dispatch feed with Gemini-powered scene analysis: crew positioning, hazards, and 4-6 tactical bullets in under a second. Command staff read the brief on the way to the truck, not after.
If your city, county, or district needs a portal that actually gets used — not another RFP that dies in procurement — text or call. You'll get me, not a call center. Live production examples available on request.
Digital Signage
Off-the-shelf signage software charges you $300 a month per screen, and the content still hasn’t changed since it went in. We build custom digital signage you own outright — pharmacy pickup queues, storefront promos, digital menu boards, service-bay status walls, gym class schedules. One-time build, unlimited screens, unlimited content updates.
Runs on the hardware that fits your budget: BrightSign, Fire TV Stick, Raspberry Pi, or a spare Chromebox. Live example running today at Cincinnati Fire training center, and internal fire-station kiosks across Northern KY.
Live prescription pickup queue, insurance-verified badges, average wait time on display, and a rotating health-tips carousel. Reduces “how much longer?” questions at the counter to almost zero.
After-hours promo screen with today’s specials, business hours, phone number, and a QR to shop online. Draws foot traffic even when you’re closed. Updates from anywhere — from your phone at home.
Swap items, prices, and photos from your phone. Time-of-day menu switching (breakfast → lunch → dinner). Allergen and dietary icons baked in. No more paying a printer $200 to reprint boards.
Customers see their vehicle’s status in real-time — “awaiting parts,” “test drive,” “ready for pickup.” Cuts the front-desk phone calls in half and turns the waiting area into a status board.
Class schedule, sign-up counts, current class in session with instructor name, and a rotating member-of-the-month card. Members walk in, glance once, know exactly where to go.
Every custom digital-signage build starts with one call: what do you want the screen to say, and who’s watching? Dentist waiting rooms, salon check-in boards, hotel lobby directories, church announcement walls — if it lives on a screen, we build it.
Call to talk through your idea →Get a fixed-price quote
Most single-screen setups land between $1,800 and $4,500 all-in — hardware, custom software, install, and 6 months of content updates included. No monthly SaaS. No per-screen fees. Ever.
Capabilities
One studio, twelve deep specialties — each one earned by shipping the real thing for a paying client.
Process
Four honest steps. No procurement theater, no six-week discovery phase — just software that shows up.
We visit your site, talk to your team, and map how work actually gets done today. Not what the org chart says — what really happens.
You get clickable mockups within a week. Nothing gets built until you approve the design.
Weekly demos of real working software. If you don’t like something, we change it the next week.
24/7 supported by the person who built it. Text, call, or email. Alexandria KY — we’re local.
Voice of the client
No names, no logos-as-props — just what the people running the operations tell us on the phone.
The command dashboard cut our overtime coordination time from 45 minutes to 3 minutes per shift. It’s the tool we didn’t know we could ask for.
Bob doesn’t just build software. He shows up on-site, understands how our shop actually runs, and delivers something that fits us. That’s rare.
The kiosk lets our customers self-serve kayak rentals at 7 locations. Since it went live, our booking volume tripled and support calls dropped.
We had a legacy scheduling system nobody wanted to touch. Bob rebuilt it, integrated with Aladtec, and it’s been running without issue for 18 months.
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Meet the founder
I’m Bob Hug — a Northern Kentucky firefighter turned software engineer. I spend half my week on the truck and the other half building the tools I wish my department had. That combination is why fire, EMS, and public-safety leaders keep sending me referrals.
When you call ResponseIQ, you get me. Not a support ticket, not a call center, not a junior dev. If something breaks at 2am, I’m the one fixing it — usually before you notice.
responseiq.ai · Alexandria, KY
For small business owners
You’ve been quoted six figures for something that felt like it should be simpler. You’ve been told to “just use QuickBooks and a spreadsheet.” You’ve watched agencies stop returning your emails the moment they hear “small business.” That stops here.
Marx Fabrication. Schack’s Yaks. Oxygen Fitness. Classic Towing. Real Kentucky small businesses running software they own outright — for a fraction of what they were quoted elsewhere.
Not the agency budget. Not the enterprise budget. Yours. We scope to your reality — the RFQ form, the inventory scanner, the dispatch board — and build exactly that. Nothing you don’t need. No monthly-user pricing trap.
You’ll click through a real, working version of your app inside 14 days. Weekly demos after that. If you don’t like something, we change it the next week — not the next quarter. No six-week discovery phase, no procurement theater.
Your code, your data, your hosting choice. No monthly SaaS ransom that doubles at renewal. If you ever want to walk away, take everything with you — and I’ll help you migrate.
The time is now
5-minute call. No sales pitch. If we’re not the right fit for you, I’ll say so and point you at someone who is. But most small businesses I talk to walk away wondering why they waited.
Get in touch
Three ways to reach us. Pick whichever is fastest — all three land on the same phone.
