I’m Dean Owen. I co-founded VeriSmart, write the systems our inspectors live in, and disappear into the woods whenever the stack will let me.
That update shipped. Daisy lives with us now. The rest of the story is the same shape: a kid who liked computers, a first PC in 1999, a support job two months later, and a long detour through classic ASP, freelance LAMP, and a start-up that grew into a franchise.
I am still the tech guy. I still add new systems. I still think putting an email on a website is a bit silly, and I still do it. Read the longer version.
Chapter two
Jonathan and I built an online calendar and tenant-delivery system so letting agents could stop posting paper inventories. The company rebranded in 2015. Today it is a UK network of 40+ franchise areas and 200+ inspectors — and I still write the software they use on the doorstep. verismart.co.uk
Off the clock
Woods, a tent, and a phone that can stay in the bag. The opposite of a national compliance platform, which is the point. What I am up to this month lives on the now page.
Say hello
Or find me on LinkedIn if you would rather not feed the spam filters. GitHub is quieter than it used to be; most of the work is inside VeriSmart.