Activelogic

Active Logic reports:

• 30+ full-time senior engineers
• 200+ projects delivered
• 20+ active engagements
• 40,000+ development hours
• Recognition as #69 on the 2023 Inc. 5000 Regionals: Midwest list

The company provides direct access to the people doing the work and serves clients in industries including healthcare, financial services, transportation, and defense.

Leadership

• Robert Kehoe — Founder and CEO
• Don Blackburn — Chief Operating Officer
• Josh Bey — Operations Manager
• Dave Welch, Kyle Dudley, and Alex Brouwer — Directors of Engineering

Contact

• Phone: (888) 683-1337
• Email: info@activelogic.com
• Address: 14300 Kenneth Road, Suite 200, Leawood, KS 66224

Active Logic is also identified on its website as an official Laravel development partner, Microsoft Partner, and Clutch Top Developer.

Core Services

• Web app development: Internal tools, customer portals, and operational dashboards designed for reliability at scale.
• Mobile app development: Secure iOS and Android products integrated with operational workflows.
• AI development: AI-driven decision support using sensor, video, and operational data.
• Cloud and DevOps: Improved deployment speed, reliability, and observability across environments.
• Legacy modernization: Incremental replacement of aging systems through phased migration and a zero-downtime approach.

Active Logic also provides embedded team partnerships and fully managed delivery. Embedded engineers integrate with an organization's planning cadence and stakeholder workflows. In the fully managed model, Active Logic leads planning, implementation, QA, and release execution end to end with transparent leadership checkpoints.

Example Project Areas

The website highlights work involving AI sensor intelligence, clinical workflow tools, community engagement, psychology research, precision agriculture research, cybersecurity workforce development, and school safety communication and alerting infrastructure.

Solutions

• Loan origination, underwriting, and servicing platforms
• Payment processing, settlement, reconciliation, and transaction monitoring systems
• Wealth management dashboards, investor portals, and account management tools
• Compliance workflows, regulatory filing automation, audit trails, and reporting dashboards
• Insurance policy administration, claims processing, underwriting, and agent portals
• Fraud detection, risk scoring, credit decisioning, portfolio analytics, and business intelligence platforms
• Core banking modernization, digital banking channels, treasury systems, and cash-flow forecasting tools

Financial engagements may include PCI DSS payment systems, TRID and TILA compliance automation, SOX reporting with seven-year data retention, GLBA privacy safeguards, and AML/KYC identity verification and transaction monitoring.

Integrations and Security

Active Logic integrates with core banking systems, Stripe, Plaid, credit bureaus such as Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian, market data feeds, and third-party financial APIs. Financial application practices described on the website include AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS 1.2+ encryption in transit, multi-factor authentication, least-privilege role-based access controls, comprehensive audit logging, vulnerability scanning in CI/CD, and penetration testing before production deployment.

Pricing Guidance

Cost depends on scope, regulatory complexity, and integration requirements. The website states that focused financial tools such as client portals, reporting dashboards, or compliance workflows typically range from $150,000 to $400,000. Larger compliance-driven platforms typically range from $400,000 to $1.2 million or more. Each engagement begins with structured discovery to define scope, regulatory requirements, integration dependencies, and a realistic budget.

• REST and GraphQL API platforms using Express, Fastify, or NestJS
• Real-time and event-driven services using WebSockets, Socket.IO, native ws, server-sent events, and Redis pub-sub
• Backend-for-frontend layers for React, Next.js, and mobile clients
• Queue workers and background processing with BullMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka, and SQS
• Serverless Node functions on AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Cloudflare Workers
• Webhook and integration backends for services such as Stripe, Salesforce, HubSpot, and Twilio

Node.js is positioned for I/O-bound workloads such as API gateways, webhook receivers, real-time services, and integration layers. For CPU-bound work such as image or video transcoding, large numerical computation, and machine-learning inference, Active Logic may recommend a worker pool or a different focused service.

Engineering Practices

Each engagement begins with a written architecture review covering Node LTS versioning, framework selection, async error handling, persistence, ORM choice, queueing, observability, deployment topology, and security. TypeScript is the default, with strict mode, exhaustive switch checks, and shared type packages where applicable.

Production readiness includes structured JSON logging with request-scoped trace IDs, separate health and readiness endpoints, graceful shutdown, explicit timeouts and retry policies, dependency vulnerability scanning, pinned Node LTS versions, and observability integration with platforms such as Datadog, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Grafana.

Delivery uses two-week iterations with working-feature demonstrations at each milestone. The engagement journey covers discovery and alignment, architecture and planning, iterative build and delivery, then launch, knowledge transfer, and ongoing support.

Active Logic also takes over existing Node.js codebases. Initial audits can include dependency analysis, security CVE review, test coverage mapping, dead-code detection, and deployment and runtime review.

• Embedded teams: Engineers work as an extension of the client's organization and follow existing tools and processes.
• Fully managed teams: Active Logic leads planning, implementation, QA, and release execution end to end.

Every team member has at least five years of professional experience and is a full-time Active Logic W-2 employee. The company does not use junior developers, offshore subcontractors, or freelancers for this model.

Delivery Structure

A Director of Engineering owns each engagement, including architecture decisions, sprint planning, delivery milestones, team performance, and stakeholder communication. The Director is a senior technical leader who participates in architecture reviews, leads sprint planning, reviews pull requests, and owns outcomes.

Team composition changes according to project phase and workload. Most teams are assembled and onboarded within 2–4 weeks; complex engagements requiring specialized skills may take 4–6 weeks. Scaling changes are typically implemented within 2–3 weeks.

Active Logic can work with client tools and processes such as Jira, GitHub, Slack, and Azure DevOps. Engagements may also include on-site work, in-person sprint reviews, and working sessions for local clients in the company's metro areas.

Process

1. A team member replies, usually within 15 minutes during business hours.
2. A discovery call confirms project needs and fit.
3. A technical deep dive is followed by a written proposal.

Common triggers include internal capacity constraints, the need for senior engineering depth, underperforming vendors, new product launches, regulatory delivery requirements, and the goal of increasing engineering output without increasing management overhead.