diff --git a/piker/_profile.py b/piker/_profile.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c14071d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/piker/_profile.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+
+"""
+Profiling wrappers for internal libs.
+"""
+import time
+from functools import wraps
+
+
+def timeit(fn):
+    @wraps(fn)
+    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
+        t = time.time()
+        res = fn(*args, **kwargs)
+        print(
+            '%s.%s: %.4f sec'
+            % (fn.__module__, fn.__qualname__, time.time() - t)
+        )
+        return res
+
+    return wrapper
diff --git a/piker/ui/quantdom/utils.py b/piker/ui/quantdom/utils.py
deleted file mode 100644
index af885cc4..00000000
--- a/piker/ui/quantdom/utils.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,81 +0,0 @@
-"""Utils."""
-
-import importlib.util
-import inspect
-import logging
-import os
-import os.path
-import sys
-import time
-from datetime import datetime
-from functools import wraps
-
-from PyQt5 import QtCore
-
-__all__ = (
-    'BASE_DIR',
-    'Settings',
-    'timeit',
-    'fromtimestamp',
-    'get_data_path',
-    'get_resource_path',
-    'strategies_from_file',
-)
-
-
-BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
-
-
-def get_data_path(path=''):
-    data_path = QtCore.QStandardPaths.writableLocation(
-        QtCore.QStandardPaths.AppDataLocation
-    )
-    data_path = os.path.join(data_path, path)
-    os.makedirs(data_path, mode=0o755, exist_ok=True)
-    return data_path
-
-
-def get_resource_path(relative_path):
-    # PyInstaller creates a temp folder and stores path in _MEIPASS
-    base_path = getattr(sys, '_MEIPASS', BASE_DIR)
-    return os.path.join(base_path, relative_path)
-
-
-config_path = os.path.join(get_data_path(), 'Quantdom', 'config.ini')
-Settings = QtCore.QSettings(config_path, QtCore.QSettings.IniFormat)
-
-
-def timeit(fn):
-    @wraps(fn)
-    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
-        t = time.time()
-        res = fn(*args, **kwargs)
-        print(
-            '%s.%s: %.4f sec'
-            % (fn.__module__, fn.__qualname__, time.time() - t)
-        )
-        return res
-
-    return wrapper
-
-
-def fromtimestamp(timestamp):
-    if timestamp == 0:
-        # on Win zero timestamp cause error
-        return datetime(1970, 1, 1)
-    return datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp)
-
-
-def strategies_from_file(filepath):
-    from .strategy import AbstractStrategy
-
-    spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location('Strategy', filepath)
-    module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
-    spec.loader.exec_module(module)
-
-    is_strategy = lambda _class: (  # noqa:E731
-        inspect.isclass(_class)
-        and issubclass(_class, AbstractStrategy)
-        and _class.__name__ != 'AbstractStrategy'
-    )
-    return [_class for _, _class in inspect.getmembers(module, is_strategy)]