SendThatBread was built with a mission that matters: no family should struggle to support an incarcerated loved one because of a broken, predatory rails system. You're trapped in a developer hostage situation with a codebase you can't update, a vendor you can't escape, and a vertical moving without you. This proposal ends that — permanently — in 30 days.
The app currently sits on the App Store as an 18.7MB shell running on incumbent rails — JPay, Send2Corrections, ConnectNetwork, Access Corrections. Your developer holds the code, the signing certs, and effectively your roadmap. That's solvable, but not by negotiating with them.
Every week you can't ship a fix or a new rail is a week families can't use a product you paid to build. Every App Store submission is 14 days of downtime at the developer's pace, not yours. Every pricing change, every facility added, every compliance update requires their cooperation — and they know it.
The fastest and cleanest escape isn't a legal fight over the old code. It's a clean rebuild on infrastructure you fully own, with a stack no one can ever hold over you again.
Instead of another native iOS app sitting in the App Store review queue, we ship a Progressive Web App at your domain. Users hit sendthatbread.com, add to homescreen, authenticate with Face ID, send in under 60 seconds. No app store, no 30% Apple tax, no developer account to be held over your head.
No Apple Developer account required. No signing certs. No App Store review queue. Nothing a third party can ever withhold from you again.
Every patch deploys to production in 90 seconds via Vercel. When incumbents change their APIs at 2am — and they will — we patch before users notice.
Families don't browse the App Store at 11pm after a collect call. They Google "how to send money to [facility]" and share links by text. A URL compounds. A native app doesn't.
Your Vercel. Your Supabase. Your Stripe. Your GitHub. Your domain. Every deploy key, every env var, every repo handed to you on day one. No vendor lock-in, anywhere.
iOS, Android, and desktop from one codebase. Your current app locks out 55%+ of US smartphone users on Android — the PWA captures all of them automatically.
WebAuthn biometric auth, web push notifications (iOS 16.4+), offline transaction history, camera access for KYC document capture. 95%+ of the native feel without any of the native friction.
A clean, trust-first interface that respects what families are going through. Teal and white, large type, no dark patterns, no predatory upsells. This is a working preview of the send-money flow and facility discovery — the two screens that do 90% of the work.
Visual preview only — live build will include full transaction history, receipts, multi-recipient management, Spanish language toggle, and an AI concierge that answers facility-specific questions in plain language.
Pulse AI is our production agent runtime — 49+ agents deployed across 20+ live platforms. For SendThatBread, we deploy nine purpose-built agents that handle everything from facility lookup to fraud detection to family-facing support. Each one is monitored, logged, and auditable.
Maintains the live database of 4,800+ facilities. Hours, rules, accepted rails. Refreshed daily from DOC sources.
Fuzzy-match across inconsistent DOC naming conventions. Verifies inmate exists before the card is charged.
Picks optimal rail per transaction based on facility coverage, fee, and historical success rate. Fails over automatically.
Executes the actual deposit against JPay, Send2Corrections, ConnectNetwork, or Access Corrections. Browserless workers.
Persona or Stripe Identity embedded inline. No separate app. Document + selfie verification triggered by dollar threshold.
Velocity checks, device fingerprinting, OFAC screening, SAR-trigger detection. Every transaction, no exceptions.
Manages retries, holds, reversals, and failure recovery across four incumbent APIs that all fail differently.
Web push (iOS 16.4+), SMS via Twilio, email via Resend. Confirmation, status updates, receipts — all routed automatically.
The differentiator no incumbent has. Answers facility questions, walks families through the flow in plain language. EN + ES.
Moving card money into facility trust accounts is money transmission. Getting the structure right on day one is the difference between a scalable business and a cease-and-desist letter. Our 27 years in payments goes into your deployment.
We onboard you to a licensed money transmitter as their registered agent. You operate legally from day one without waiting 18 months for state MTLs.
Full AML program documentation, OFAC screening on every transaction via Pulse agent, CTR and SAR filing workflows documented.
Stripe tokenization end-to-end. No card data ever touches your servers. Attestation of compliance path included in the build.
Direct facility contracts at the county sheriff level is where the real margin lives. We document the 12-month path to get you there.
Fixed-scope, fixed-fee, fixed-deadline. Built on the 30-day methodology that has delivered production platforms across payments, legal, financial services, private equity, and real estate — every one of them shipped on time, on scope, and fully owned by the client.
Install existing app, map every network call, document current rail integrations. Stand up client-owned infrastructure: Vercel, Supabase, Stripe, domain control, GitHub repo. Reverse-engineer incumbent rail APIs to confirm automation viability across all four providers.
Next.js 15 PWA frontend, Tailwind styling, Supabase Auth with WebAuthn biometric re-auth. Service worker, manifest, install prompt, push notification infrastructure. Full send-money flow end-to-end with Stripe + Apple Pay + Google Pay via Payment Request API.
Deploy all nine Pulse agents on Supabase edge functions. JPay, Send2Corrections, ConnectNetwork, Access Corrections adapters via Browserless workers. Rail router and fraud/AML agents live-tested against sandbox transactions.
KYC embedded, AML program documented, OFAC screening active, MSB agent onboarding complete. Load test to 1,000 concurrent transactions. Admin dashboard for ops. Security review. Customer migration playbook. Go-live on sendthatbread.com.
This engagement is priced as a favor-rate referral rescue. Our standard engagement for this exact scope is $165K. What follows is what you pay — nothing added, nothing held back for later phases.
This rescue fixes the immediate problem. The bigger opportunity is the vertical itself — a $5.55B/year family-spending market dominated by three hated incumbents with zero content strategy and predatory fees. That's a generational opportunity, and it's too big to run inside a services engagement alone.
Our kickoff is already on the calendar. Review the scope, confirm the 30-day window works, and we start the moment the agreement is countersigned. Reply to the email thread or flag anything you want to adjust before we kick off.