Repair Forge IT | IT Services, Automation & AI in Houston
Houston small business IT support at flat, published prices with no monthly contract. Fixed jobs from $195, on-site in Houston, remote across Texas.
Repair Forge IT is an IT infrastructure, automation, and AI consultancy for small businesses, led by its founder Ricky, a Systems Architect with 14+ years of hands-on experience. Trusted contractors are brought in when a job needs more hands, and automation carries the repetitive load. Clients get a direct line to the person doing the work, with no ticket queue, and a typical reply in under a day. We work on-site across the Houston, TX metro and remotely statewide, including Austin. We scope work to what you need and do not upsell.
Services
Networks, Servers & Backups in Houston & Austin, TX: Network setup, servers and backup solutions for small businesses: physical and virtual servers, monitoring, and working backup and recovery, built vendor-neutral in accounts you own and scoped to what you can spend.
Workflow Automation for Small Business in Houston & Austin, TX: Workflow and business process automation for small businesses: scripts and integrations that connect the tools you already pay for, from invoice data entry to follow-ups, and take repetitive work off your team’s plate.
Web Design, Web Apps & SaaS in Houston & Austin, TX: Web design and development at every size: simple business websites, custom web apps built around your processes, and full SaaS products, with clean APIs and managed hosting from the team that built it.
IT Consulting for Small Business in Houston & Austin, TX: An IT consultant for small businesses: IT audits and plans built around your business goals. We look past vendor sales pitches and industry trends to find what will work for you.
AI Consulting & Integration in Houston & Austin, TX: An AI consultant for small businesses: we build AI into the systems you already run, for document processing, code-generation tools and private local AI, and tell you what AI can’t do for you.
Custom AI Agents for Small Business in Houston & Austin, TX: Custom AI agents for small businesses, matched to the task: a website chatbot or AI receptionist, an agent scoped to one repetitive job, or one trusted to run a process end to end, each with guardrails to match.
Server Room, Rack & Data Center Setup in Houston & Austin, TX: Server room and rack setup for small and mid-size offices: rack and stack, cable management, power and cooling planning, and new network cabling. For bigger jobs, colocation moves and VMware migrations.
Fractional IT Manager for Small Business in Houston & Austin, TX: Your IT person on call: a fractional IT manager for small businesses that are too small for the big IT firms, or don’t want one. A month-to-month retainer, quoted per business, that starts after one paid fix.
AI Marketing for Small Business in Houston & Austin, TX: AI marketing for small businesses: lead capture pages, an AI chat that answers visitors, and AI email replies and follow-ups that reach every new lead while it’s still interested, built on accounts you own.
Selected work
Supamask: A drop-in proxy that keeps your Supabase URL and anon key out of the browser. Express middleware plus a client wrapper, so your project reference and API keys never show up in network requests, page source, or CSP headers.
Hermes: An internal platform working toward fully autonomous outreach. It handles prospecting, research, and follow-up with minimal hands-on operation.
Pi-Canary: A multi-crate Rust network canary for Raspberry Pi and Linux hosts. SSH and HTTP honeypots, live libpcap capture, ARP and scan detection, webhook and SMTP alerts, an Axum-served terminal dashboard, and an optional AI risk sidecar.
React2Shell Safeguard: A security proxy that shields React and Next.js apps from the React Server Components RCE and DoS CVEs (CVE-2025-55182 and related). Static analysis flags vulnerable dependency versions; dynamic analysis detects and blocks malicious payloads in real time. Ships as a CLI, a library API, and a Docker image.
Seshat: A PostgreSQL and Supabase SQL generator in C, validated against short-lived PostgreSQL instances.
Client outcomes
200K+: API requests a month on a client’s internal operations platform that we built and still run day to day. The team that designed it owns it end to end, so there is no handoff between the people who built it and the people who keep it up. (Operations software client, Houston, 2026)
Monthly → never: Month-end payment reconciliation that staff had been doing by hand now runs itself, including overpayments, refunds, and two people editing the same record at once. (Operations software client, Houston, 2026)
Hours → minutes: An outage once went unnoticed for hours. Alerting now runs on separate hardware from the system it watches, so a total failure still reaches a human. (Operations software client, Houston, 2026)
7 closed: Classes of security hole found and fixed in an audit nobody asked us to run. Several of them were ours, and we wanted to find them before you did. (Operations software client, Houston, 2026)
$3,600/yr: Recurring cost removed by auditing network services and cutting redundant vendor contracts, with no loss of capability. (Infrastructure client, Houston, 2024)
Whole fleet, one team: A company device fleet (accounts, email security, hardware lifecycle) owned end to end by one accountable team, with license tracking built in-house so nobody paid for seats they had stopped using. (Industrial services firm, Houston, 2023)