Software and IT help for small businesses and non-profits in Tulsa
PADev Group is a Tulsa technology firm founded by Christopher Rapp in 1998 and relaunched in 2025 with Evan Hobbs as its lead consultant. We build custom software, we set up and support the technology a small organization runs on, and we publish what we charge.
What we do
Custom software
When software off the shelf does not fit the way you work, we build what does: desktop, web and mobile applications, and the connections between the systems you already own.
IT consulting and support
We look at the hardware you have, recommend what to keep and what to replace, install it, and answer the phone when something stops working.
Resident Technology Concierge
Scheduled, one-on-one technology help for residents of independent-living communities, on site.
Project rescue and short-term help
Chris takes short engagements of his own: a project that has gone off track, or a company that needs help it did not plan for.
What “platform agnostic” means
PADev stands for Platform Agnostic Development. We have watched the industry move from terminals wired to a mainframe in the basement, to powerful desktops, to web applications running on servers in the cloud. Each was the right answer to some problems and the wrong answer to others. We have no favorite language and no vendor to sell you. We choose the tools that fit your problem and your budget.
Non-profits pay less
Non-profits live on grants and yearly funding, and our rates reflect that. A non-profit’s first consultation is free, and it pays $30 to $75 an hour where our regular rates are $70 to $150. New businesses can ask us about a first-year discount.
A firm that also trains
Non-profits often cannot pay for the IT help they need, and people starting out in IT cannot get real projects to learn on. PADev puts the two together. People building their experience work on real client projects, with an experienced lead guiding the work. At the moment they are college students, who join us from time to time.
Work we are doing now
Oklahoma Performing Arts
Oklahoma Performing Arts is a Tulsa-area non-profit that has taught dance, music, acting and technical theater to children ages 3 to 19 since 1996, and puts its students on stage in full productions every season. PADev looks after the technology behind it: we provide their networking, we set up networked TVs throughout their facility that show the live stream of their shows from one central computer, and we maintain their WordPress website.
Visit Oklahoma Performing Arts
Earlier projects
Since 1998 the firm’s projects have included land and lease management for an oil and gas company, disease management software for a hospital system, a content management system with online payments, a newsletter mailing system, and systems for inventory, time tracking and defect tracking.
Talk to us
Not sure what you need? Start with a free 20-minute call, and we will tell you whether we can help. A non-profit’s first consultation is free as well.