Custom software · Oceanside, California
When the software you need doesn’t exist, Ebenstone builds it.
Bring an idea, a problem, or a sketch on a napkin. Ebenstone builds it new, or builds it onto the systems you already use.
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From a sketch to an app built for a church. Invented people.
Who you’ll work with
Twelve years of building software that thousands of companies rely on.
Andrew
Ebenstone was founded by Andrew Lathrop. Before that he spent twelve years at one software company, helping build a platform that about 7,500 companies use to collect data in the field. He is the person who scopes your project, builds it and supports it.
on one software platform
Andrew started on its support desk and finished running its releases. He has done each job your project will need.
customers on that platform
It grew from twenty customers to 7,500 while he worked on it. He has seen what breaks as software grows, and builds to avoid it.
security reviews he answered
For years, customers’ security questionnaires landed on his desk. Your board or IT office gets real answers about how your data is kept.
from a first conversation to a church using its app
CCO Care, built for a church’s care team in September 2026.
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What Ebenstone can do for you
Custom apps, built around your work
Software made for the work your people do, whether that is one task or everything your team handles in a day: requests, schedules, records, reports.
Websites, built and hosted
A website for your church, business or organization. Ebenstone designs it, builds it, hosts it and keeps it running.
Sign-up, ordering and payment pages, built new or added to your site
Pages where someone registers, orders, books or pays. Ebenstone builds them from scratch, or adds them to the website you already have.
Software built onto the systems you already use
Ebenstone can build on top of what you already run and add the piece it is missing. Your people keep the sign-in they have, and nobody retypes a list from one system into another.
Help deciding what to build
Start with a question instead of a project. Ebenstone looks at your idea, or at the tools you use now, and gives you a written recommendation.
Support after launch
Fixes, changes and answers from the person who built it, for as long as you use it.
Who it’s for
Who Ebenstone builds for
Three kinds of client, and what each one usually asks for.
Churches and nonprofits
For a church office or ministry team whose work runs on volunteers.
Ebenstone can build
- A care app that tracks every visit and follow-up
- Sign-ups for events and volunteers
- A website for your church, built and hosted
- Tools that work with your Planning Center account
Small businesses and individuals
For a business owner, or one person working for themselves, whose orders, bookings or jobs have outgrown texts and a spreadsheet.
Ebenstone can build
- Online ordering that knows your lead times
- Booking and scheduling for your team
- A website for your business or your craft, built and hosted
- Card payments and email confirmations
Schools and districts
For a school, or a district department, that needs a tool built by a vendor its office can approve.
Ebenstone can build
- Work-order and request tracking
- Forms and approvals for staff
- Sign-in with your school’s Google or Microsoft accounts
- W-9, agreements and security answers, ready when asked
Have an idea that doesn’t fit any of these?
Bring it. Plenty of good software starts as a sketch on a napkin.
Work
Software Ebenstone has built
Two were built for others: a church’s care app and a writing group’s website. The other three are Ebenstone’s own products. Each started as an idea for fixing a real problem.
Built for others
Built for a client
A church’s care team can see every request, who has it, and what happens next.
Built for Calvary Chapel Oceanside. In use 18 days after the first conversation.
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A website Ebenstone built
A home for a writing group’s first book.
One page for ten young authors and their anthology: the book first, each author, and what comes next.
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Ebenstone’s own product
Live football stats, scored from a sideline with no signal.
Record the play and every total works itself out. Families follow live on a free link.
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Ebenstone’s own product
A one-year reading plan a whole household follows together.
Everyone on the same plan, a quiz that confirms the reading happened, and a way to catch up after a missed day.
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Ebenstone’s own product
Online ordering for shops that make things to order.
Every product has its own lead time, so a customer sees only the days they can actually have it.
Read the case studyHow it works
From a sketch on a napkin to software your people use.
- 1You bring the ideaA problem, a wish, or a rough sketch. It doesn’t need to be worked out yet.
- 2I help you shape itI ask questions until it’s a written plan: what it does, who uses it, and what it leaves out. Often the plan goes further than the sketch.
- 3I build it where you can see itYou get working software to try at every step. Nothing moves on until you approve it.
- 4It goes live, and I stayIt launches on your web address, and I’m still the one you call when something needs to change.
Tell me about your idea.
A problem, a wish, or a sketch on a napkin is enough to start.
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