Marc Godard

Rapid Dev Group is one person. The name is bigger than the payroll.

The group is me, my platform, and thirty years of habits. I am Marc Godard. I have been writing software since I was 17, in 1994, studied Cognitive Science at Queen's University with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence, and everything on this site is built, hosted, and answered for by me.

Thirty years of building software

I started in the early days of the web and spent most of my career building for large corporations and international clients: systems that had to stay up, take money, and survive the people who came after me. The AI work is not new either; it is what I studied.

A few years ago I brought that focus to London, Ontario. The businesses here have the same problems as the big ones, at a scale where one good developer can fix them properly.

My own platform

Everything I deliver runs on Sitetra, a platform I wrote from the ground up: websites, stores, CRM, booking, invoicing, automations, and an AI assistant, with over sixty sites on it today. Nothing is stitched together from a dozen third-party services, so when something breaks I can see exactly why.

That same habit is what I bring to reviewing other people's apps and locking down networks: read everything, trust nothing by default, fix the root cause.

Plain language, fixed prices, root causes.

I explain, I do not sell

You get the real trade-offs in words you can act on. If I am not the right person for a job, I will say so and tell you who is.

Price before work

Reviews are fixed price. Builds are priced in phases, each agreed before it starts. Hourly work is $240 and you see every hour.

Fix it once

A patch that hides a symptom costs you twice. I find the cause and fix it where every path goes through.