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Ptech
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—— Index 001 · HomepageA studio in Memphis, Tennessee · est. 2024

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.

The Egyptians made Ptah the patron of architects, sculptors, and builders — every craftsperson who took something invisible and rendered it solid. That's the work.

Vision  ·  Word  ·  Form
§ II — The Practice

Four crafts, one studio.

I.WEB

Websites & brand systems

Marketing sites, e-commerce, and identity work that hold up next to your best work. Built to be edited, not just admired.

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II.AI

Custom AI systems

LLM-powered tools designed around a real workflow — intake forms, internal copilots, document pipelines, agentic search.

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III.SW

Internal software

Dashboards, admin panels, and operational tools that retire the spreadsheet without replacing it with a worse one.

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IV.OPS

Automation & integrations

Quiet plumbing between the tools you already pay for, so the seams stop costing you hours every week.

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§ III — The Works

A few recent translations.

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I.

BanterBox Books

EdTech · publishingAI platform · Interactive reading

An AI platform that turns research, policy briefs, and fiction into conversations with cited answers — plus dedicated portals for writers, educators, and publishers.

II.

Total Care PT

Healthcare · MemphisPractice site · Patient intake

A practice site and patient intake flow for a 20-year Memphis rehab clinic — orthopedic, occupational, and workers' comp, with bilingual scheduling.

III.

Memphis Gift Basket

Retail · MemphisE-commerce · Corporate gifting

An e-commerce platform for the city's signature Memphis-themed gift basket maker — corporate gifting, custom builds, same-day local delivery, FedEx nationwide.

[ featured case study — drop hero shot here ]FEATURED · BanterBox Books
§ IV — The Method

Heart. Tongue. Hand. Stone.

A four-stage rhythm, borrowed from the creation myth of the god we're named for. It's how we keep a clear idea steady all the way from your head to the made thing.

I.Ib

Heart

Discover

A working session to understand the dream — what you see, who it serves, what success feels like.

II.Ra

Tongue

Define

We name the thing. Scope, surfaces, the smallest version that proves it works. Written down, signed off.

III.Djed

Hand

Build

Designed and engineered in the open. Weekly walkthroughs. You see it become real, week over week.

IV.Akh

Stone

Endure

We ship, we maintain, we keep the lights on. The thing should still be working ten years from now.

§ V — The Tools

What we reach for, first.

We're tool-pragmatic, not tool-religious. This is what we default to — happy to use what your team already runs.

I.

Frontend

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Framer Motion
  • Radix UI
II.

Backend

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Node.js
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • Prisma
III.

AI

  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • OpenAI
  • LangChain
  • RAG · pgvector
  • Embeddings
  • Eval harnesses
IV.

Infra

  • Vercel
  • Cloudflare
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Sentry
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§ VI — The Studio

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.

* if you count Ptah, which we do.
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§ VII — The Founder

Drew Dickson.

Founder · Principal engineer

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.

Tell us the dream.
We'll handle the building.

Thirty minutes on a call. No deck, no pitch — just questions, and an honest read on whether we're the studio to build it.

or write us — info@PTechAdvisors.com