Independent software & efficiency consultancy
Hard problems, solved in software.
HansonCore is the consulting practice of Joshua Hanson, built on twenty years turning ambiguous, high-stakes problems into working systems. Across high-scale ecommerce, regulated financial operations, and the tooling a business actually runs on: design, delivery, review, and the judgment to know which one you need.
- 20+ yrsBuilding & stabilizing software across industries
- $36M+Realized business impact from programs owned
- 7+ yrsInside one of the world's largest online retailers
Senior help, across the software lifecycle.
Engage HansonCore for a single review or an end-to-end build. Every engagement is led personally. No hand-off to a junior bench, no project that grows to fill a budget.
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Design
Technology & system design
Architecture and technical strategy that fit your business and constraints, not the trend of the week.
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Delivery
Implementation & delivery
Hands-on engineering to ship the thing, or to get a stalled, over-scoped project moving again.
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Review
Code & architecture review
An independent read on what you have: quality, scalability, maintainability, and the risk hiding in it.
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Risk
Risk & compliance analysis
Find where systems, data, and compliance can bite you, before they do. Grounded in regulated, audited work.
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Modernize
Migration & integration
Move off legacy systems and integrate at scale, safely and incrementally, without stopping the business.
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Efficiency
Ecommerce & operational efficiency
Streamline commerce platforms and the operations behind them, from storefront to fulfillment and back office.
Three things I'm brought in to do.
Generalized across engagements. The specifics change from one to the next, but these patterns don't.
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Multi-million $ saved
Take cost out of technical, infrastructure, and operational systems by consolidating platforms, cutting redundant spend, and re-architecting for efficiency. That adds up to millions in recurring savings across projects, while adding reliability rather than risk.
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Goal → deliverable
Turn an ambiguous business goal into working, custom software: new products, internal tools, and integrations, architected, built, and delivered end to end, from concept to something running in production.
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Off-track projects, corrected
Come into stalled, over-scoped, or drifting projects, evaluate the real goals against where things actually stand, and set an honest path and timeline to done, then drive delivery until it ships.
Two decades where mistakes are expensive.
Joshua Hanson founded HansonCore, LLC as the consulting practice above Five Acre Code, the studio behind its Shopify apps & custom Shopify development. HansonCore is that same standard, a level up: strategy, enterprise work, and independent review for teams that need senior judgment they can trust.
Work with Joshua-
Ecommerce at global scale
Engineering and technical program leadership inside one of the world's largest online retail operations, where uptime and throughput are the business.
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Regulated, real-money systems
Technology leadership for financial-transaction and compliance-critical operations, where auditability and correctness are non-negotiable.
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Founder, Five Acre Code
The Shopify studio arm: apps, checkout systems, and custom commerce work for merchants, owned from idea to shipped.
Engagement models.
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Advisory & fractional
Ongoing senior input, part-time. Embedded with your team for direction, reviews, and the hard calls, without a full-time hire.
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Project delivery
A scoped build, integration, or migration with clear milestones and a fixed target. Priced per project after a short discovery.
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Review & risk assessment
A fixed-scope audit of a codebase, architecture, or plan, delivered as written findings and prioritized recommendations.
One practice, two front doors.
HansonCore, LLC is the consulting practice for strategy, enterprise work, and independent review. Five Acre Code is its studio arm for Shopify: custom apps, checkout systems, store setup, and integrations, plus the Cart Marshal product. Need Shopify-specific work? That's where it lives.
Visit Five Acre Code ↗Tell me what's slowing you down.
A few lines about the project, the timeline, and what success looks like is plenty. You'll hear back from me directly, with questions, a suggested path, or an honest no if it isn't a fit.
Prefer email? josh@hansoncore.com