Technology that works and stays yours.
I help small businesses, family businesses, and nonprofits get technology that stays out of the way. I've done this for my own family's bakery — converted it to worker ownership, tripled revenue. I can do it for yours.
Running a small business is hard.
Here's what I hear from the folks I work with.
Stuff keeps breaking and no one can fix it.
I build documented setups one person can run. No calling a vendor every time something hiccups.
I'm drowning in monthly subscriptions.
Where it makes sense, I move you onto tools you own outright. You stop renting your own business back.
I want to pass this on — not sell to a stranger.
Worker ownership and cooperative models. I've done it for my own family business and I can map the path for yours.
Big tech doesn't care about us.
I build what you actually need. Nothing you don't. No enterprise features you'll never touch.
I don't just advise this. I lived it.
I turned my family's cookie bakery into a worker-owned business. Revenue tripled.
"There's a lot of shared DNA between baking cookies and shipping software. Recipes, a production line, a package, a customer. Source code, a pipeline, a build, a deploy. Same shape."
Covered Bridge is a thirty-year-old family cookie bakery in Vermont. Four recipes, real ingredients, nothing you can't pronounce. We went to 100% worker ownership — four owners, living wage, good conditions. The legacy stays with the people who do the work.
It's hard. Real collaboration — sharing power genuinely — is hard every day. Worth it. But not a switch you flip once. You choose it, actively, every morning.
My practice.
I listen first, understand where you are, then we figure out the right answer together.
Infrastructure & DevOps
Documented setups one person can run. No single point of failure. No full-time admin needed.
Private AI
On-premise models. Your data stays on your machines. No cloud training from your business.
Security & Resilience
Protection and backups that match your actual risk. A bad day shouldn't become a bad year.
Cooperative Technology
Worker-owned and member-owned systems. Tools and governance that make collective ownership work day to day.
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
The first call is free.
Tell me what you're trying to build, keep, or pass on. No pitch, no pressure.