For years, we were the engineering and product team behind other companies’ ideas — launching platforms, building startups, and shipping software that ended up in front of a lot of people. We were good at it. At some point we decided to do it for ourselves.
The founder's background is in building things that actually ship. In the late nineties, he co-founded eOneGroup, a Java-based e-commerce platform that processed transactions for national brands — Omaha Steaks, Oriental Trading Company, BiC, Tommy Hilfiger, and others. That was early days for e-commerce, and he was in the middle of it.
After eOne came It's Deductible, a software product built to help people maximize tax deductions by assigning fair market values to charitable donations. When the company was acquired by Intuit, that led him into software architecture and senior engineering work there — first on small business tax and accounting software, then on technical diligence for potential acquisitions and the integration work that followed.
From there he went to Sojern, where he worked on what began as a travel data platform and grew into a global travel marketing business. Early on, that meant delivering relevant ads and offers through airline boarding passes. Later, his work moved deeper into travel data itself: building targetable audience data, working with Google's ads team, and integrating travel intent data into Google's advertising platform. Today, Sojern operates globally with roughly 300-plus employees.
After that, he built and ran iGroup Creative — a design and development studio that launched web, mobile, and brand products for clients over the course of more than two decades, with the same core team on every engagement.
ScoreVision started as a personal project: a basketball scorekeeper app he built both to learn early iOS development and to solve a real problem. In some of the gyms where his kids played, you could barely see the scoreboard. This was in the first stretch of outside developers being able to build iPhone apps, and the product caught on quickly. It was featured by Apple on its March Madness page, and for several years he built and managed it solo as it grew past 100,000 users. Later, to develop the software into its full potential, he brought it into iGroup Creative, where it evolved into ScoreVision — a platform built to bring the professional sports experience to schools, colleges, and universities across the country.
Along the way, the team also took on consulting engagements, technical leadership roles, and work as the engineering backbone for VC-backed ventures across finance, insurance, manufacturing, and more. Over time, that core expanded to include family as well: his wife and son worked alongside him at ScoreVision, and his daughter joined when Shiver began. The result is a small but experienced and unusually durable team — one that includes family, alongside other longtime collaborators, and knows how to build and ship serious software.
After a long time building for other people, we wanted to build for ourselves — not as a consulting shop, not as hired hands, but as a studio with our own products, our own bets, and our own standards.
Shiver Software is where that happens. We look for markets where the gap between what’s available and what people actually need is wide enough to matter, and we build the thing that closes it. No outside pressure to ship before it’s ready. No compromises on how it’s built.
Our first product out of Shiver Software is Momentum FSM — field service management software for home service businesses. It’s the product we built because we knew the space and knew the tools in it weren’t good enough.
It won’t be the last thing we build.
