Software for the people
who keep things running

From minutiae to momentum

Beale Street Software builds and supports the systems behind festivals, nonprofits, and small businesses — and sticks around to make them better every year.

Flagship projects

Built with the people who use them.

Festi

One system for your whole organization.

An enterprise-level platform for nonprofits and small businesses, with extra depth for organizations that put on events. Festi replaces dozens of disconnected tools — forms, CRM, ticketing, scheduling, inventory, donor management, volunteer coordination, storefront — with one tailored system. Institutional knowledge is preserved, cross-training is built in, and year-end reports become year-round totals.

It’s neither fixed off-the-shelf software your team works around, nor work-for-hire that digitizes processes that were already broken. Subscribers get a seat at the design table, and every feature one organization funds makes the platform better for all of them.

Clients report that year one takes as much effort as before — and that years two and three are lightyears ahead.

Replaces

  • JotForm
  • SurveyMonkey
  • Eventbrite
  • DonorPerfect
  • Salesforce
  • Shopify
  • Calendly
  • Monday.com
  • Udemy
  • Volunteer Matrix
  • …and many more

Who runs on Festi ↓

Buxomotive

Shop management for auto service businesses.

Customers, vehicles and their ownership history, appointment scheduling, service requests, and invoicing — all in one place, designed around how a busy service counter actually works. Built alongside a working shop and refined through years of daily use.

  • Scheduling
  • Vehicle history
  • Service requests
  • Invoicing

AWBW Portal

A home for a network of healing-arts facilitators.

A Window Between Worlds has used art workshops as a tool for empowerment and healing for over a quarter million people since 1991. Their portal gives workshop leaders one place to find workshops and resources, share stories, register for events, and file their reports.

Built in the open with Ruby for Good; Mae is the project’s lead contributor.

View the code on GitHub →

Supporting good work since 2014

From 10,000-person festivals to all-volunteer boards.

Bright Spirits Market

Durham, NC

Holiday & Spring markets

GrassRoots Festivals

Trumansburg, NY

Finger Lakes GrassRoots · Shakori Hills GrassRoots · Virginia Key GrassRoots · Culture Camp

Musical Empowerment

Durham, NC

Chapters at UNC–Chapel Hill, Duke, NC State, Wake Forest, East Carolina, Dartmouth, Hunter College & UCLA

Shakori Hills Community Arts Center

Pittsboro, NC

Hoppin’ John Fiddlers’ Convention · NC Stars in the Round · Carolina Luau · Richie & Rosie Concert

Title Track

Northern Michigan

Title Track · Understanding Racial Justice (URJ) · Water Protector’s Training Camp · Skill Swap

Custom consulting & development

Outgrown your spreadsheets?

We work with mission-driven organizations to untangle workflows, consolidate systems, and build the software they actually need — from a one-off integration to a long-term development partnership.

Not every process should be automated, and the ones that should can go wrong if they’re automated badly. We’ve been in those trenches, and we’ll tell you which is which.

Recent custom builds

  • A learning management system for a nonprofit moving its workshops online
  • Point of sale for a small business selling merch online and in person
  • Multi-pickup ticketing for a festival’s batch ticket sales
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  • Management consulting & strategic planningGet clear on goals, priorities, and what success looks like.
  • Business analysis & process managementMap what you do today and design what comes next.
  • Custom web applicationsRuby on Rails apps built to fit your process, not the other way around.
  • Data migration & consolidationPull scattered spreadsheets and tools into one source of truth.
  • Training & change managementHelp your team actually adopt the new system.

About

Mae Beale

Owner

I founded Beale Street Software in 2016 after 20 years as an administrator.

I know what it’s like to be the person reconciling spreadsheets, retyping the same data into five systems, and carrying the institutional memory in your head. So I build software that takes that work off people’s plates — and I build it with them, not just for them. Every engagement combines software, consulting, and change management into one ongoing collaboration.

What I value

  • Equity, access, and transparency. In my clients’ work and in mine.
  • Data sovereignty. Your data is yours. I’m in the business of small data.
  • The long arc. Better efficiency, accuracy, and memory every year.
  • Real partnership. One person, direct communication, a shared stake.
“She herself may only stand at 5’1” in height, but in the world of software development and support she is a giant. She is as responsive as she is knowledgeable about not only the software, but her clients’ goals and visions.”
Krista Cain, Sweetwater Doula

Let’s talk.

Tell me what you’re working on. I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help.