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About · Kuhlman.Co

One person,
all the way down.

Kuhlman.Co is a one-person software studio in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Idea to App Store, design to deploy, backend to support inbox — built by one set of hands, on purpose.

Ethan Kuhlman
Founder · Sole pilot
KCGI · Cape Girardeau, Missouri

The story

I started Kuhlman.Co because I wanted to make small, sharp software the way the best small studios used to — one person who designs, builds, ships, and supports the thing they made, without anyone in between.

Three apps are out the door today: Weather.Co for general aviation pilots, Dispach for freelancers running their business, and tmpo, a daily-use health app in pre-TestFlight. A few more — on the running log — are taxi-ing for takeoff.

Beyond the studio's own products, I take on a small number of outside builds a year. iOS apps, web platforms, AI integrations, Cloudflare-native services. Always end-to-end, always with my name on it.

Why one person

Fewer hands means more coherence — at the cost of going slower in stretches. I take the trade. Design knows the code, code knows the deploy, the support inbox knows the roadmap. Nothing falls in the gaps between specialists because there are no gaps.

It also means I can be honest about scope, honest about timelines, and honest about the things I don't do. No sales team telling you yes when the answer is no.

What I won't do

01
Build surveillance. No ad SDKs, no analytics-on-by-default, no data sold to brokers. If a business model needs to watch the user, it's the wrong model.
02
Chase framework fashion. Legible code over framework of the week. Things that run and make sense in five years. Boring underneath, sharp on top.
03
Subcontract the work. No offshore teams behind a logo. The hands you hire are the hands that ship.
04
Pretend to scale. Studio of one. Three to five active clients a year, max. Said no to a lot of work to make that true.

Where I'm based

Cape Girardeau, Missouri — home base KCGI. Most of the work ships from a small office near the airport. Travel rarely, async-first with clients, weekly drops when we're flying together.

Get in touch

Pre-flight conversations are always free. Send the rough shape of the idea and we'll figure out from there.