Software Development in Chicago, Built for Illinois Rules

Biometric features under BIPA

Face unlock, fingerprint time clocks, voice authentication and identity checks that match a selfie to a document all touch biometric identifiers as the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act defines them. Before collecting one, a private entity must tell the person in writing that it is being collected, state the specific purpose and how long it will be kept, and receive a written release. It must also publish a retention schedule and destroy the data on time.

When biometric features are in scope, we build those steps into the product: the notice and release captured and stored before any scan, retention dates attached to each record, and deletion that actually runs. Often the better answer is to let the phone's own biometric unlock gate access so the app never receives the biometric data at all. Your counsel signs off on the wording; we build the software to do what the policy says.

AI in hiring and HR decisions

Public Act 103-0804 amended the Illinois Human Rights Act, effective 1 January 2026. It makes it a civil rights violation for an employer to use AI that has the effect of discriminating against protected classes in recruiting, hiring, promotion, discipline, discharge or other terms of employment, or to use zip codes as a proxy for protected classes, and it requires employers to give notice when they use AI for those purposes.

If you want AI to screen applicants, rank internal candidates or flag performance issues, we scope the checks in the design phase: a notice step, a record of what the model was given and what it returned, a person making the final call, and an evaluation set drawn from your own material that we re-run on every change.

Freight, rail and the supply chain

According to the CREATE program, one of every four U.S. freight trains passes through Chicago. Shippers, brokers, intermodal operators and warehouses here handle a constant flow of rate confirmations, delivery receipts and invoices from other companies. Our logistics page explains how we automate that document and exception work around the systems already in place.

Manufacturing, food and fintech

World Business Chicago, the city's public-private economic development agency, concentrates on life science and healthcare, food and agtech, transportation and logistics, manufacturing, and fintech. For manufacturers and food producers, that usually means connecting the plant floor, quality records and order systems; see manufacturing. For trading, payments and lending firms, it means work like fraud scoring, KYC document checks, AML alert triage and underwriting with reason codes, all of which we have built; see fintech.