Fayetteville is the cultural and intellectual engine of Northwest Arkansas. Harold Ragan CodeWorks builds websites, web apps, mobile apps, and custom software for Fayetteville businesses, startups, and organizations — with the speed and directness that a college-town tech ecosystem demands.
Fayetteville is home to the University of Arkansas, a campus of nearly 30,000 students that fuels a constant stream of startups, research spinoffs, and creative ventures. The Dickson Street corridor, the downtown square, and the broader Fayetteville economy combine university energy with established businesses in healthcare, professional services, hospitality, and retail.
That environment creates a unique set of technology needs. Student founders need MVPs built fast to test ideas before funding runs out. Research teams at the U of A need tools to commercialize findings — data dashboards, internal platforms, public-facing apps. Established restaurants and retailers along Dickson and College need digital ordering, reservation systems, and marketing sites that stand out in a competitive corridor.
Professional services firms — law offices, accounting practices, marketing agencies — need web applications that streamline client management and reduce manual overhead. The growing number of tech workers relocating to NWA means Fayetteville also has a sophisticated consumer base that expects polished digital experiences from every business they interact with.
We serve Fayetteville from our headquarters in Harrison, AR, about 90 minutes east on Highway 412. Every project gets direct developer access, fixed pricing, and fast delivery — whether we meet on the square or handle everything remotely.
Fayetteville moves fast. Student ventures, accelerator cohorts, and new businesses need working software in days, not months. We deliver prototypes in 48 hours and production-ready builds in weeks.
No account managers, no ticket queues. You talk to the developer writing your code. For a city full of founders and operators who value efficiency, that matters.
Fayetteville agencies charge agency prices. We deliver the same full-stack capability — frontend, backend, mobile, integrations — without the bloated team and markup.
We understand the NWA market. We know what Fayetteville consumers expect, how the university cycle affects local businesses, and what it takes to compete in a metro area growing as fast as this one.
The challenge: build a platform where anyone can launch a fully branded VoIP business without touching infrastructure. We delivered a web application featuring a visual call flow designer (drag-and-drop, no code), automated phone provisioning for Grandstream, Yealink, and Poly devices, phone number purchasing in 180+ countries, and a complete white-label engine — custom subdomains, branding, email templates, and reseller-controlled pricing. Real-time call analytics and CDR reporting give operators full visibility, while built-in fraud detection keeps the platform secure. The entire frontend runs on Next.js with deep API integrations across multiple telephony carriers.
Roofing contractors needed a single system that covered everything from lead generation to job closeout. We built a custom platform with GPS-tracked door-to-door canvassing (live maps, rep leaderboards), a production scheduler with drag-and-drop crew assignment and weather risk integration, a 6-tab work order wizard that auto-generates purchase orders, real-time supplier pricing lookups, a template manager spanning 7 document types, and a full invoicing and estimate pipeline. Multi-branch architecture lets companies manage multiple offices from one login. The entire interface is mobile-first — designed to be operated from the field.
An HVAC company was losing revenue to disorganization — paper invoices getting lost, technicians double-booked, follow-up calls never made. We built a web application that handles ticket creation, technician dispatch and scheduling, job progress tracking, parts inventory, and invoicing. The business outcome was immediate: zero lost invoices, complete visibility into every technician's workload, and automated follow-up reminders that recovered revenue they were previously leaving on the table. A textbook case of automation replacing manual chaos.
Pediatric care facilities juggle complex billing rules, strict compliance requirements, and the constant need to know exactly where every child is at any moment. We built a custom EMR platform with a two-stage check-in flow (lobby kiosk to classroom confirmation), a four-clock billing engine tracking EIDT, therapy, attendance, and before/after care independently with automatic pause logic, CACFP meal tracking for USDA compliance, clinical documentation linked to Individual Treatment Plans, a real-time floor view with live child-to-staff ratio monitoring, and Medicaid/DMS-642 workflow automation. Multi-campus support and full HIPAA/FERPA compliance with append-only audit logs round out the system.
Fayetteville is part of the broader NWA metro. We also serve businesses in these neighboring cities throughout the region.
Get a prototype in 48 hours. A full MVP in 7-14 days. No fluff, no bloated timelines — just fast, clean execution.