Built by John Sydnor.

This started as my own problem.

I didn't build Covenant Works because I saw a market opportunity. I built it because I was drowning in spreadsheets, sticky notes, and apps that almost worked — and I got frustrated enough to do something about it.

I run a laser engraving shop. I make custom military retirement gifts, wedding signs, church plaques, cutting boards, and whatever else a customer needs. I sell at craft markets. I do military orders. I apply for grants. I do my own bookkeeping, manage my own inventory, track my own mileage, and figure out my own taxes.

When I looked for software to help, I found two things: generic small business accounting tools that didn't understand what a craft shop is, and nothing else. There was no tool that understood that I track jobs by machine, that my material costs vary by substrate and speed setting, that a military shadow box quote is different from a wedding order, that veteran status and certifications matter for certain contracts.

So I built the tool I needed. And then I looked around at the people in my community — other makers, other veterans, other solo operators — and I realized they needed it too.

That's when it stopped being my personal project and became Covenant Works.

The pricing is set on purpose.

I didn't build this to get rich off the people I'm trying to help. The pricing for Covenant Works is set at exactly what it needs to be — enough to cover the backend infrastructure that keeps it running, and a fair margin to maintain and improve it over time. That's it.

No investor pressure to extract maximum revenue. No nickel-and-diming with feature tiers. No free tier that hobbles you until you upgrade. The free plans are real. The paid plans are priced at what a solo operator can actually afford.

Business Pro is $19 a month. Maker Pro is $25. Those numbers were chosen because that's what the infrastructure costs, plus a margin that lets me keep building — not because I modeled how much money I could extract from a solo electrician.

If you've been in the gap between "I'll figure it out" and "enterprise software I can't afford" — this was built for you, priced for you, on purpose.

Why Maker and Business are separate.

Covenant Works started as a maker tool. The first version was built entirely for a laser engraving shop — job tracking, machine settings, LightBurn export, military orders, Etsy listings, craft market tracking. Every feature was built around the specific realities of running a craft shop.

But the more people I talked to, the more I realized there was a second group that needed something almost entirely different. The electrician. The freelance designer. The mobile dog groomer. The photographer. The consultant. People running legitimate service businesses, doing real work — and managing everything with a folder of receipts and a prayer at tax time.

These two groups need different tools. A laser engraver needs machine settings, LightBurn integration, and a military orders pipeline. An electrician needs invoicing with card payments, a proper P&L, and a Schedule C export. Shoehorning both into the same interface would mean building something mediocre for both.

So both tracks exist inside the same platform — same login, same pricing philosophy, same AI foundation — but built as distinct experiences for people with genuinely different needs.