Public-facing applications
Student, patient, government, and researcher-facing web and mobile applications, built to survive the Tuesday when everyone logs in at once.
Inventive Patriots · veteran-owned · Texas certified
Inventive
Patriots.
Your HUB goal and your software problem can be the same purchase. Texas HUB, SDVOSB, VOSB, SBA small business, SAM registered, TIPS vendor.
// a certification is not a capability
Half the vendors on your list are a certification with a staffing agency attached.
// what this actually is
The veteran-owned side of the same team.
Inventive Patriots, LLC is the veteran-owned, Texas-certified arm of Inventive Group, Inc., the Austin software consultancy that has been designing, building, testing, and maintaining web and mobile applications since 2016. Not a subsidiary with its own bench. Not a pass-through to someone else's developers. Same staff, same solution architects, same delivery managers, same code review.
Our CEO, Andrew Siemer, is an Army veteran. That is where the certifications come from, and it is why this entity exists: public institutions have procurement paths built specifically to route work to businesses like ours, and we would rather use them than complain about the bid process. Which entity you contract with changes the line on the purchase order. It does not change who shows up to the sprint review.
// three paths
Pick the path your purchasing office already uses.
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Texas HUB and CMBL
Certified by the Texas Comptroller as a Historically Underutilized Business and listed on the Centralized Master Bidders List. Texas vendor number 13205930343, location 00. HUB runs through October 27, 2027. If your agency carries a HUB participation goal, work you send us counts toward it.
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TIPS cooperative
An awarded vendor under Technology Solutions Products and Services, so education, government, and nonprofit agencies can buy off a contract already competitively solicited. For most districts and campuses this is the shortest distance between "we need this built" and a signed engagement.
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Federal and prime teaming
Registered in SAM as a veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned small business. UEI FYFXEHCUWAJ9, CAGE 8D7Q7. We also team as the certified veteran-owned subcontractor under primes who need that participation, which is exactly what we did on a Texas.gov digital government program in 2026.
// before you check the box
We would rather lose the bid than waste your evaluation cycle.
Three corrections we end up making on most intake calls.
- HUB is not HUBZone. We are a Texas HUB. We are not SBA HUBZone certified. Those are two different programs with names one letter apart, and more than one buyer has gotten most of the way through an evaluation before spotting the difference.
- We are not a women-owned business and we are not 8(a). If your requirement is one of those, we are not your vendor, with or without a teaming arrangement.
- We do not do body-shop staffing as the deliverable. If the requirement is warm seats at the lowest hourly rate, there are firms built for that and we are not one.
// what we build
Software for institutions that cannot just start over.
This is not a catalog of everything technology can do. It is the short list of work that institutions keep coming back to us to fix.
Websites and migrations
Enterprise website design, development, and large-scale migrations, including the content nobody has inventoried in six years.
Legacy modernization
Technical audits, modernization roadmaps you can actually fund, and the rewrite itself when the roadmap says rewrite.
Accessible design systems
ADA and WCAG depth baked in, with components that hold up across a dozen departments who all want their own header.
Cloud and data
Cloud architecture and migration, data pipelines, and interactive dashboards that replace the monthly spreadsheet ritual.
CRM and CMS work
Implementation, integration, and migration across Slate, Salesforce, HubSpot, and WordPress. Configured, not just licensed.
AI in real workflows
Agents and copilots inside clinical, research, and academic workflows, with a human still accountable for the decision.
Support after launch
Performance work, security remediation, and the unglamorous maintenance that decides whether year three still works. 🔧
Texas public institutions have already tested this.
Aggie Muster. Texas A&M brought us in three weeks before the April 21 ceremony to move a century-old tradition online during COVID.
We built the platform and load-tested it at 400,000 simulated concurrent visitors, processing 4M+ messages at 2,500 requests per second with no degradation. A public-facing Texas delivery on a deadline with zero flex.
TAMU School of Innovation. A cross-platform iOS and Android app plus its admin backend and control panel, replacing a scheduling tool the university had outgrown. Shipped in a little over two months, launched January 2020, now past 2,200 active users.
TAMUS Technology Services. Scattered reporting across the Texas A&M University System technology arm, centralized into interactive Grafana dashboards and a custom client portal with per-client views. Ongoing.
A certification can be bought for a filing fee. A six-year engagement at a flagship health science center cannot.
Beyond those: Texas A&M's College of Arts and Sciences, School of Law, Health Science Center, Galveston, Texarkana, and Mays Business School campuses, Tarleton State, the Port of Corpus Christi, the Port of Laredo, the City of Laredo, and the Housing Authority of the City of Austin.
// from a texas public institution
Their modern design and optimization have been fantastic additions to our web infrastructure. Rated 5.0 out of 5.0 on Clutch, engagement running since June 2020.
Assistant VP, Marketing & Communications · Texas A&M Health Science Center
// fit, and your side of the deal
This works best when someone owns the outcome.
A good fit for state agencies, public universities, school districts, ports and authorities, health systems, and research organizations with a real system to build or modernize and a purchasing office that needs a compliant path to get there.
It is a poor fit in one case worth naming: if the specification is already written down to the field level and what you need is someone to type it, you are paying us for the part we are worst at. We are at our best when you bring the problem and we help shape the solution.
Three things we need from you, and none of them are a bigger budget:
- A product owner who can decide. Someone with the authority to say yes, say no, and say "that is not what we meant" inside a day. Institutional projects stall in committee far more often than they stall on engineering.
- The actual requirement, not the sanitized version. If the real driver is an accreditation deadline, a leadership mandate, or a system nobody will admit is failing, tell us. We scope differently when we know.
- Honest feedback on working software. You see it every two weeks. "It looks fine" is how mediocre software gets into production at scale.
// why patriots
The name is not decoration.
Veteran ownership is the legal basis for every certification on this page, and it is also a hiring bias we are comfortable admitting. Military service builds the things that make someone good at this work: executing on incomplete information, owning an outcome, telling you bad news early.
We hire veterans when we find them. We do not run a program, a pipeline, or a press release about it. If you are a veteran who builds software and you want to work here, the careers page is the right door, and it is a real one.
inventive patriots, llc · veteran-owned · part of inventive group, inc.
Texas HUB · CMBL · SDVOSB · VOSB · SAM · TIPS
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Bring the requirement. We will bring the path.
Tell us what you are trying to build and which procurement route your office prefers. If one of our vehicles fits, we will say which one and what happens next. If none of them do, we will tell you that too. Austin, TX · UEI FYFXEHCUWAJ9 · CAGE 8D7Q7 · Texas vendor 13205930343 · NAICS 541511, 541512, 541513, 541519, 541690.