Custom software · Websites · Infrastructure
Fifty years of
taking it personally.
We write custom software, build websites, and keep the infrastructure underneath it all humming. We’ve been doing it from Louisville since 1977 — close enough to most of our clients to turn up in person, and around long enough that we usually know what’s wrong before we get there.
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Who we are
One job since 1977: making technology work the way your business already does.
mini-MAX Information Systems opened its doors in 1977, back when a “business computer” filled a room and came with a service contract measured in decades. The technology has changed completely since then. What we do with it hasn’t: we sit down with a business, learn how it actually runs, and build the systems that keep it running.
For over thirty years we’ve been an IBM partner — which means the same platforms trusted by enterprises are available to the shop, clinic, or plant down the street, sized and priced for the way you actually operate. We write custom software, design and build websites, and host the infrastructure underneath it all.
We’ve stayed independent on purpose, and it’s the reason a call still reaches a person instead of a menu — someone who has seen your setup and can tell you what’s actually wrong. A good share of our clients are here around Louisville, close enough that we can be on-site the same day. Plenty of others are farther out, and they reach exactly the same people just as fast.
Business Partner for over 30 years
The difference
Technology got impersonal. We never did.
Portals, ticket queues, automated everything, and a vendor who has never set foot in your building. That’s what working with a technology company turned into. Here’s what we do instead.
You get a person, not a process
Your work doesn’t get handed to whoever happens to be free. The people who know your systems are the ones who work on them — because they’re the ones who built them.
The same people, year after year
We opened in 1977 and we’re still here. The person who set your systems up is, more often than not, the same person looking after them a decade later — no reintroducing your business to a stranger every time something changes.
In person when it helps
Some problems get solved fastest standing in front of the machine, so for clients around Louisville we come out. Everyone else gets the same familiar team working remotely — never someone opening your file for the first time.
Built for you, not resold to you
We don’t hand you someone else’s software and tell you to adapt. Three decades as an IBM partner puts serious tools behind us — assembled around how your business actually runs, by someone who sat down and listened first.
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What we do
Four ways we keep businesses running
Most of our clients use more than one of these, and they work better together — the software we write, the site it connects to, and the infrastructure underneath are all supported by the same team. The same people you’ll actually talk to.
Custom Software Development
Business applications built around the way your company actually works — order entry, inventory, scheduling, reporting, the process that currently lives in a spreadsheet someone guards with their life. We’ve been writing this software since long before “app” meant something you download.
Custom Business Solutions
Sometimes the answer isn’t a new program — it’s the right combination of hardware, software, and process, chosen by someone who has seen what works. We assess what you have, tell you honestly what to keep, and put together a solution that fits the business and the budget.
Website Design
Sites built for businesses that need to be found and trusted, not to win design awards. Fast, clear, works on a phone, and easy for you to update. If the site needs to talk to your other systems, we’re already the people who built them.
Hosted Infrastructure
Servers, hosting, backups, and the monitoring that catches trouble before you do — run and maintained by us. You get the reliability of a managed environment with a local number to call, and someone who can drive over if it ever comes to that.
Want the detail behind any of these?
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Let’s talk about what you’re trying to fix
Tell us a little about your business and what’s not working. A person reads every message that comes through here, and you’ll get a straight answer about whether we’re the right fit — not an autoresponder and a sales sequence.
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9900 Shelbyville Rd
Louisville, KY 40223 - Hours Mon–Fri, 8:00am – 5:00pm