Custom software & modernization
Internal tools, client portals, and legacy rebuilds, designed around how your business actually runs.
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.
tesseract.project() · live render · follows your cursor
What we do
Four things, done properly.
Eight years of enterprise delivery across e‑commerce, ERP, and reporting, for businesses where off-the-shelf isn't enough.
Automation & integrations
The manual work that eats your team's week, automated. ERPs, payments, SSO, and APIs wired together.
Agentic AI systems
AI agents that do real production work: research, operations, decision support. Human review built in.
Security & long-term support
Audits, remediation, monitoring, and production ownership. We stay on after launch, not drop-and-run.
Selected work
Proof, not promises.
0 → 60%+
Enterprise e-commerce + ERP platform
A custom platform running a client's entire business. Every order used to be keyed in by hand; over 60% are now customer self-service, automating thousands of labor-hours.
RoleProduct & technical delivery lead
ScopeDiscovery → architecture → launch → operations
StatusProduction · zero downtime since 2019
~250K lines
ERP modernization
A business-critical ERP rebuilt for security-sensitive clients: MySQL to PostgreSQL on a redesigned schema, CI/CD, and ~95% of the code written by governed agent pipelines under human review.
RoleProgram lead & architect
ScopeSchema → migration → CI/CD → delivery
StatusDelivered under external audits · GDPR / PII
Beta in a day
Relay, our own encrypted platform
An end-to-end encrypted comms platform we design, build, and operate in-house. A working beta on day one, hardened into production over five months of reviewed changes.
RoleFounder · product owner · delivery lead
ScopeProduct → architecture → security → operations
StatusProduction · active private beta
Figures measured from production repositories and order-system history · July 2026
How we work
Process, not improvisation.
A small senior team amplified by agentic tooling we build ourselves, with 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 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, end-to-end encrypted alternative to Discord: voice, video, and chat with zero telemetry. We run all our own developer communications on it, alongside invite-only beta testers.
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.
Also in the lab: Warden, an autonomous security reviewer for CI/CD pipelines, and Ember, an AI copilot for winning the right work. More to share soon.
Get in touch
Tell us what's slowing you down.
We take on a small number of engagements at a time. Email us what you're trying to build, modernize, or automate, and we'll tell you straight whether we're the right fit.
hello@hologramhacks.comWe usually reply within a day or two.