I’m Corey Bailey. I design and build apps for small businesses.

The kind that replaces a paper form, a spreadsheet, or a tool your team works around.

Eastern Townships, Quebec. Ten years in the trades, with UX design alongside.

Email me

Before anything gets built, I’ll tell you plainly whether it’s worth building.

ChantierLog

Second Pass

What I can help with

Designing and building an internal tool from scratch
Redesigning a tool your team already works around
Turning a paper form or spreadsheet into an app your crew uses from their phone
A clickable prototype first, so you can see and test the idea before paying for the build

ChantierLog

chantierlog.ca

A job-site reporting app. At the end of every day I filled in a paper sheet, pen in hand, and it was a real pain. So I built the app I wanted: easier for crew leads to fill in, and easier for the office to receive and file for billing. It was piloted at the landscaping and excavation company I work for.

On the job site

Before: A paper sheet at the end of the day, pen in hand.
After: Crew leads file the day from their phones, offline where there’s no signal.

Monday morning

Before: Someone in the office chasing hours.
After: The office has the whole week assembled, and nobody has to chase anyone for it.

	Before	After
On the job site	A paper sheet at the end of the day, pen in hand.	Crew leads file the day from their phones, offline where there’s no signal.
Monday morning	Someone in the office chasing hours.	The office has the whole week assembled, and nobody has to chase anyone for it.

ChantierLog crew sheet for one job site, on a phone, in French — The crew’s sheet for the day, on a phone.

Top of the ChantierLog weekly email in French: one job site with 54.5 hours for the week and the first crew rows — The weekly email the office reads on Monday.

A demo of the app.

Second Pass

secondpass.app

An iPhone app I designed and built for myself. It started when I noticed I’d reach for my phone looking for answers I already had. You talk into it, and later it plays your own words back to you. It’s in testing with its first users.

It’s where I learned to cut what doesn’t work, even after it’s built.

What I cut, and why

Cut: Two AI features I’d already built
Why: They failed on the recordings that mattered most.

Cut: A feature for long recordings
Why: I measured my own recordings. They were short, so it wasn’t needed.

Cut: Typing
Why: I never used it.

What I cut	Why
Two AI features I’d already built	They failed on the recordings that mattered most.
A feature for long recordings	I measured my own recordings. They were short, so it wasn’t needed.
Typing	I never used it.

Second Pass recording screen — Recording.

Second Pass, choosing what comes back — Choosing what comes back.

How I work

Step by step

Most clients can picture the finished yard but not how it gets there, so I walk them through it step by step and answer what comes up along the way. Software is no different.

Scope it down

I’d rather scope something down and have it get used than ship something impressive nobody opens.

One person

I do the design and make the product decisions. The engineering runs through AI tools I direct, so the design and the build come from the same person.

Tell me what your team is working around.

Email me corey@baileydigital.io