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Custom software, web engineering & AI agents for Gainesville businesses.
Dynamo Directive is a senior engineering studio fifteen miles up US-441 in Alachua. We design, build, and operate custom web platforms and AI automation for Gainesville companies. Close enough to sit across the table, senior enough that you never wait on a ticket queue.
Updated August 2026
Built for how Gainesville actually works
Gainesville runs on more than the university. Around UF and UF Health sits a dense layer of practices, labs, startups out of UF Innovate, property managers turning over thousands of student leases every August, and the trades that keep all of it running. Most of those operations are held together by spreadsheets and off-the-shelf tools that almost fit. That gap (between template software and how your shop actually bills, schedules, and dispatches) is exactly what we build for.
We already build here
Our client work includes Eclectic Electric, a Gainesville digital fabrication studio running CNC routing, laser cutting, signage, and projection mapping under one roof. We built the brand and web platform that sells that capability, and we operate it in production today. When we talk about Gainesville businesses, we mean clients we can drive to.
The alternative to the template shop
Gainesville has no shortage of web design vendors selling templated WordPress sites with a logo swap. We sit in a different lane: custom-coded platforms on a modern React/Next.js stack, AI agents wired into your phones and CRM, and a studio that hosts, monitors, and keeps improving the system after launch instead of handing you a zip file.
Web & Platform Engineering
Custom web apps, customer portals, internal tools, and dashboards for businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets. Built and run by a senior studio.
GAI/0102.0Agentic & AI Engineering
We design, build, and operate custom AI agents, MCP tools, and workflow automation wired into your existing systems. Working automation, not AI hype.
GAI/0203.0Media & Marketing
Strategy, brand, and content production wired into the systems we build: sites, intake, automation. Integrated marketing for service businesses.
GAI/03Includes Eclectic Electric: a Gainesville fabrication studio whose brand and platform we designed, built, and still operate.
Eclectic Electric
Brand and web platform for a Gainesville digital fabrication studio. CNC routing, fiber and CO2 lasers, signage, and projection mapping presented as one no-outsourcing shop where the drawing becomes matter.
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Kutta
AI-powered data visualization platform transforming how businesses interact with their information.
Do you have an office in Gainesville?
No, and we won’t pretend otherwise. We’re based in Alachua, about fifteen miles northwest of downtown Gainesville, and we work with Gainesville clients constantly. Kickoffs, scoping sessions, and working meetings in Gainesville are easy to schedule; day-to-day collaboration runs remotely, which keeps senior engineers on your project instead of in a car.
What does web development cost in Gainesville?
Template shops in the region typically charge $2,000–$10,000 for a themed WordPress site. Custom engineering is a different product: published market ranges for SMB-scale custom web applications run $15,000–$100,000+, and our WebApp Starter delivers a hosted custom web app on a flat monthly subscription when a full build isn’t justified yet. We scope first and give you the number before anything is built.
Do you work with University of Florida–adjacent businesses?
Yes. A large share of Gainesville’s economy sits in UF’s orbit: clinics and practices around UF Health, startups out of UF Innovate, landlords and property managers on the student-housing cycle, and the restaurants and trades that serve campus. We build intake systems, portals, dashboards, and AI phone agents suited to exactly that mix of seasonal surge and small back-office.
Can you build AI automation for a Gainesville service business?
That’s our core work. We design and operate AI agents that answer and book calls, run intake, sync CRMs, and automate the follow-up your team drops when things get busy. For a Gainesville home-services company or practice, the usual starting point is the missed-call problem: every call that rings out during a job is revenue walking to the next listing.
Have you actually shipped work for Gainesville companies?
Yes, see Eclectic Electric, a Gainesville digital fabrication studio (CNC, lasers, signage, projection mapping). We built the brand and the web platform and we operate it today. The full write-up, including what changed for the business, is in our case studies.
How do we start?
Book a scoping call. We’ll map how the work actually flows through your business, tell you honestly whether custom software, an AI agent, or neither is justified, and put a number and a timeline on it. If a meeting over coffee in Gainesville works better, we’ll drive down.
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