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Locations · Tucson, AZ

Software built to last for Tucson organisations.

OlDevs is a full-stack studio building web apps, mobile apps, AI systems and performance marketing for Tucson organisations. Working remotely from Vancouver since 2014, we keep your hours, demo progress every week and visit when it helps.

Remote from Vancouver, on-site when useful Weekly working demos Reply within one business day

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$oldevs deploy --env production

Build passed · 212 tests · 0 warnings

Migrations applied · postgres 16

API v2 healthy · 142ms p95

Rolling out to 3 regions…

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Tucson, in short

Yes, OlDevs works with Tucson organisations from its Vancouver studio, delivering remotely and visiting on site when a project calls for it.Because Arizona keeps Mountain Standard Time year-round, Tucson is only an hour ahead of us in winter and matches our clock in summer, so scheduling is straightforward. We provide web app, Android and iOS development, full-stack and web development, AI development and performance marketing.

Key facts

01Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States
02Time zone
Mountain Standard Time all year, 1 hour ahead of our studio in winter and level with us in summer
03Working hours overlap
Your 9:30–17:30 = our 8:30–16:30 in winter; identical hours in summer
04Privacy law
No comprehensive Arizona consumer-privacy statute at our last review; federal rules apply by sector (HIPAA, COPPA, GLBA, CAN-SPAM, FTC Act)
05Accessibility
ADA Title III for public sites; WCAG 2.1 AA for state and local government under the 2024 Title II rule; Section 508 for federal work. Our standard is WCAG 2.2 AA
06Languages
English; Spanish widely spoken

Built for Arizona

What Tucson projects need us to get right.

The local rules and realities we design for from the first call.

01

Federal privacy rules, applied by sector

With no comprehensive state consumer-privacy statute in Arizona at our last review, Tucson projects follow the federal rules for their sector. A clinic falls under HIPAA, a lender under GLBA, anything aimed at children under COPPA, and all marketing under CAN-SPAM and the FTC Act.

HIPAA · COPPA · CAN-SPAM

02

ADA and Section 508 readiness

Tucson's public-facing sites face ADA Title III litigation risk, government bodies must meet WCAG 2.1 AA under the 2024 Title II rule, and federal work needs Section 508. Building to WCAG 2.2 AA is our standard, so keyboard navigation, contrast, captions and focus order are handled from day one.

ADA · Section 508 · WCAG 2.2 AA

03

Spanish-ready structure

Spanish is widely spoken in Tucson, so we build content models, forms and notifications with a second language slot from the outset and test layouts against longer Spanish text. Our own bilingual capability covers English and French; for Spanish we work alongside your translators.

Spanish-ready · Content model · EN/FR capability

04

US hosting and data residency

We host Tucson clients in United States cloud regions on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, with Azure's West US 3 region in Arizona as a nearby option, and we keep backups, logs and analytics inside the country. Accounts are created in your name, so residency and access are yours to control.

US regions · Azure West US 3 · Client-owned accounts

Sectors

Who we work with in Tucson.

Aerospace and defence

Suppliers around Tucson's aerospace and defence base need supplier portals, quality tracking and tightly scoped access controls. We build internal web apps with clear audit trails and role-based permissions, documented so your compliance team can review them.

Optics and photonics

Optics firms want product configurators, technical catalogues that engineers trust, and computer-vision tooling for inspection. We build custom ML and vision pipelines alongside the web tools that surface results, and keep the science-heavy content accurate.

Health care

Tucson clinics and health systems ask for patient portals, appointment apps and intake forms that respect HIPAA. We design privacy in from the wireframe stage, meet WCAG 2.2 AA so every patient can use them, and integrate cleanly with your records systems.

Mining

Mining operations need field data capture on mobile, dashboards that turn sensor and shift data into decisions, and predictive analytics for maintenance. We build Android and iOS apps that work offline and sync later, plus the web back end behind them.

Process

Working with OlDevs from Tucson.

  1. Discover

    We open with a video workshop scheduled in Tucson hours to map users, systems, data and the federal rules your sector answers to, then write a scope you can measure us against.

  2. Design

    Prototypes are shared and reviewed live on screen. Accessibility, Spanish-ready layouts and field-use conditions such as glare and gloves are settled in design, not discovered in testing.

  3. Build

    Every week you see a working demo on your own staging environment. Your comments shape the next week's work, and we travel to Tucson when a site walk or hands-on session will move the project faster.

  4. Launch

    We go live on US-region hosting in your name, set up monitoring and hand over documentation, code, designs and accounts so your team is fully in control after release.

  5. Grow

    Post-launch we can keep building features, run performance marketing and analytics, or tune AI models as your data grows, on a cadence that fits your budget and calendar.

FAQ

Tucson — questions we hear first.

We do not. Our studio is in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Tucson clients are served remotely: video calls in your hours, a weekly demo, and a staging site you can open whenever you like. When a project benefits from being in the room, for a discovery workshop or a launch day, we fly down.

Yes. Tucson keeps Mountain Standard Time all year, which puts you one hour ahead of Vancouver in winter and on exactly the same clock from spring to autumn. Standups, reviews and support windows are set to your calendar, so nobody on your side is waiting for us to wake up.

We do. At our last review Arizona had no comprehensive consumer-privacy statute, so the governing rules are federal and sector-specific: HIPAA, GLBA, COPPA, CAN-SPAM and the FTC Act. During discovery we identify which apply to your data and design collection, storage and consent flows to match, with documentation your compliance lead can keep.

Yes. We deploy to US cloud regions on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, and Azure's West US 3 region in Arizona keeps data close to home. Backups, logs and analytics are configured to stay in the United States, and every account is opened under your organisation so you can verify residency at any time.

Mobile apps that work offline for field crews, patient portals and intake tools for health care, computer-vision and predictive analytics for optics and mining, and supplier portals for aerospace firms. Performance marketing follows for tourism and consumer-facing businesses. Each engagement is scoped and quoted on its own.

Send a quote request describing the problem, the users and any deadline. Within one business day we reply and propose a video call in Tucson hours. After that call you receive a written scope, a timeline and a quote, and you decide whether to go ahead.

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