Pittsburgh, PA · Engineering Studio

Software worth owning.

We build and modernize the systems businesses run on, automate the work that slows them down, and stay to run what we ship.

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Four things.

Eight years of enterprise delivery across e-commerce, ERP, and automation, for businesses where off-the-shelf isn't enough.

/01

Custom software & modernization

Internal tools, client portals, and legacy rebuilds, designed around how your business actually runs.

/02

Automation & integrations

The manual work that eats your team's week, automated. ERPs, payments, SSO, and APIs wired together.

/03

Agentic AI systems

AI agents that do real production work: research, operations, decision support. Human review built in.

/04

Security & long-term support

Audits, remediation, monitoring, and production ownership. We stay on after launch.

Proof, not promises.

0 → 60%+
orders self-service
Enterprise e-commerce + ERP platform
A custom platform running a client's entire business; orders have shipped every day since 2019.
~350K lines
production code, 6 months
ERP modernization
~350K lines of production code rebuilt and delivered under external audits: GDPR / PII, governed agent pipelines under human review.
idea → prod
in 6 months
Relay, our own encrypted platform
Self-hosted, end-to-end encrypted comms we run our own business on daily. Case study →
Figures measured from production repositories and order-system history · August 2026

We ship our own software, too.

Running our own products keeps us honest: strategy, infrastructure, security, and support, lived firsthand.

Relay

private beta

Privacy-first communication for developer teams.

A self-hosted alternative to Discord: voice, video, and chat on your own server, end-to-end encrypted DMs, no tracking. Runs daily for an invite-only beta of 40+ testers.

e2ee_dms · self_hosted · voice_video · no_tracking
Case study →Explore Relay →

ClipStack

open source

No cloud. No telemetry. Just your clipboard.

A tiny clipboard manager for Windows: Rust, raw Win32, a single ~0.5 MB exe. Your last 50 clips a middle-click away, and nothing ever leaves your machine.

rust_win32 · no_cloud · open_source
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Also in the lab: Warden, an autonomous security reviewer for CI/CD, and Ember, an AI copilot that finds leads and drafts proposals in your voice.

Tell us what's slowing you down.

A small number of engagements at a time. We reply within a day or two.