Strategy & growth
We help you grow — not just execute. We'll pressure-test the plan, tell you straight when something won't work, and build toward outcomes instead of just taking the order.
Engineering studio
Software worth owning.
Hologram Hacks designs, builds, and modernizes secure custom software for mid-market and enterprise teams — internal platforms, integrations, reporting, and privacy-first products built for long-term ownership.
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10+
Years in enterprise delivery
$5M+
Delivered to production
Mid → Large
Companies served
Idea → Product
Full-stack, end to end
Founder-led — a decade of hands-on enterprise delivery the studio is built on.
What we do
Engineering for business-critical software.
Built on a decade of hands-on enterprise delivery — $5M+ shipped across e-commerce, ERP, and custom reporting for mid-size to large companies. We design, modernize, integrate, secure, and support the systems teams depend on, where off-the-shelf isn't enough.
Custom software
Internal tools, client portals, workflow systems, and operational platforms built around how your business actually runs.
Application modernization
Legacy rebuilds, framework and cloud upgrades, and the technical-debt cleanup that keeps critical systems alive.
Integrations & automation
APIs, payments, ERPs, identity and SSO, and the third-party systems your stack has to talk to — wired together and automated.
Agentic AI systems
Custom AI agents that do real work — research, operations, and decision support, wired into your stack and built to run in production. Powered by leading models.
Design & SEO
Interfaces people actually want to use, and the technical SEO so the right customers actually find you.
Custom reporting & dashboards
Operational reporting, data models, and decision-support built for the people who actually read it.
Security & remediation
Audits, penetration testing, and vulnerability remediation — with SOC 2 / GDPR-aligned controls when the business needs them.
Long-term support
We stay on after launch — maintenance, monitoring, and production ownership. Not drop-and-run.
How we work
Process, not improvisation.
Serious teams evaluate delivery risk as much as code. Here's how an engagement runs — from the first call to long after launch. We also work differently: a senior team amplified by agentic workflows we build and run ourselves — in practice, 3–5× the throughput of a traditional firm, with the same human review, testing, and security behind every line.
01
Discovery
We map the goals, constraints, risks, and the systems already in play — before proposing anything.
02
Architecture & plan
A clear scope, architecture direction, roadmap, and estimate. No surprises mid-build.
03
Build & iterate
Focused increments with demos, testing, and visible progress — not a black box.
04
Launch & support
We stay on past launch: maintenance, monitoring, security, and the next improvements.
Our own products
We build our own products, too.
Running our own software keeps us sharp — product strategy, infrastructure, security, support, and long-term maintenance, lived firsthand. The same disciplines we bring to client systems.
R
Relay
Private beta
Privacy-first communication for developer teams.
A self-hosted, end-to-end encrypted alternative to Discord — voice, video, and chat with zero telemetry and no third-party access. Built for teams that take ownership seriously. We run all our own developer communications on it today, alongside a group of invite-only beta testers.
E
Ember
In development
AI that wins the work.
An AI copilot for landing the right work — it surfaces strong leads, drafts proposals in your voice, and tracks what actually earns. For independents and the software teams chasing the same opportunities. Powered by Claude. More to share soon.
Coming soon
What we believe
How we build.
The same convictions shape the products we own and the systems we deliver.
01
Own, don't rent.
Self-hosted by default. Your data lives on your infrastructure, under your control — not held hostage on someone else's servers.
02
Privacy isn't a setting.
End-to-end encryption and zero telemetry are the starting point, not an upsell buried three menus deep.
03
Built to outlast.
We engineer for the decade, not the demo. Security audits, real tests, and no shortcuts that quietly become someone else's problem.
04
Ship like you mean it.
Whether it's our product or your platform, it goes out right. Delivery is the job — not the afterthought.
Get in touch
Let's build, automate, and grow.
Whether you're shipping a product, modernizing a system, or automating the work that's slowing you down, we help businesses build smarter and grow faster. We take on a small number of partnerships at a time, and we'd like to hear about yours.
hello@hologramhacks.comWe usually reply within a day or two.