If you can dream it,
we can build it.
Ptech is a technology studio that builds websites, custom software and AI systems for businesses. If you can imagine it, we can build it.
Course & school sites
Marketing sites, e-commerce, and identity work that hold up next to your best work. Built to be edited, not just admired.
AI tutoring & feedback
LLM-powered tools designed around a real workflow — intake forms, internal copilots, document pipelines, agentic search.
Student dashboards
Dashboards, admin panels, and operational tools that retire the spreadsheet without replacing it with a worse one.
Cohort automation
Quiet plumbing between the tools you already pay for, so the seams stop costing you hours every week.
- 01
Discover· Heart
A working session to understand the dream — what you see, who it serves, what success feels like.
- 02
Define· Tongue
We name the thing. Scope, surfaces, the smallest version that proves it works. Written down, signed off.
- 03
Build· Hand
Designed and engineered in the open. Weekly walkthroughs. You see it become real, week over week.
- 04
Endure· Stone
We ship, we maintain, we keep the lights on. The thing should still be working ten years from now.
Frontend
- ✓TypeScript
- ✓React
- ✓Next.js
- ✓Tailwind CSS
- ✓Framer Motion
- ✓Radix UI
Backend
- ✓Python
- ✓FastAPI
- ✓Node.js
- ✓Postgres
- ✓Redis
- ✓Prisma
AI
- ✓Claude (Anthropic)
- ✓OpenAI
- ✓LangChain
- ✓RAG · pgvector
- ✓Embeddings
- ✓Eval harnesses
Infra
- ✓Vercel
- ✓Cloudflare
- ✓AWS
- ✓Docker
- ✓GitHub Actions
- ✓Sentry
Made on the bluff, from Memphis, Tennessee.
We named the studio after Ptah — the Egyptian craftsman god of the first Memphis — because his creation myth is the cleanest description we've found of what this work actually is.
What exists first in the mind becomes real through craftsmanship. Vision, then form. Imagination, then creation.
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Drew Dickson
A decade of shipping software for teams who would have rather been doing anything else than spec'ing it. Ptech is the studio I wished existed when I was on the buying side: small enough to actually care about your weird edge cases, technical enough to ship the thing.
Before Ptech: building AI tooling, web platforms, and the occasional internal CRM that nobody wanted to maintain. Now: in Memphis, on the bluff, building for clients who'd like something real.