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“Software for people who footnote.”

If you can dream it, we can build it.

PTech (stylised PTech) is a small technology studio based in Memphis, Tennessee, founded in 2024 by Drew Dickson.[1] PTech is a technology studio that builds websites, custom software and AI systems for businesses. If you can imagine it, we can build it.[2]

The studio takes its name from Ptah, the Egyptian craftsman god associated with the first Memphis on the Nile, and adopts as its working motto the phrase “If you can dream it, we can build it.”[3] Its published work spans healthcare, retail e-commerce, and AI systems for publishing.[4] The studio operates from offices two blocks from the Mississippi River.

1Practice areas

PTech organises its work into four practice areas, each carried end-to-end by the same principal rather than handed between sub-teams.[5]

  • WEBLab & department sites. Marketing sites, e-commerce, and identity work that hold up next to your best work. Built to be edited, not just admired. Examples of our work ↗
  • AIAI for literature & data. LLM-powered tools designed around a real workflow — intake forms, internal copilots, document pipelines, agentic search. Examples of our work ↗
  • SWResearch portals. Dashboards, admin panels, and operational tools that retire the spreadsheet without replacing it with a worse one.
  • OPSCohort & study tooling. Quiet plumbing between the tools you already pay for, so the seams stop costing you hours every week.

2Methodology

The studio follows a four-stage rhythm borrowed from the creation myth of Ptah, in which an idea conceived in the heart is made real through the word, the hand, and finally the stone.[6] The stages are summarised as follows.

  1. Discover (heart) — A working session to understand the dream — what you see, who it serves, what success feels like.
  2. Define (tongue) — We name the thing. Scope, surfaces, the smallest version that proves it works. Written down, signed off.
  3. Build (hand) — Designed and engineered in the open. Weekly walkthroughs. You see it become real, week over week.
  4. Endure (stone) — We ship, we maintain, we keep the lights on. The thing should still be working ten years from now.

3History

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.[8]

What exists first in the mind becomes real through craftsmanship. Vision, then form. Imagination, then creation.

The studio is a single-principal practice: engineering and design are carried by the same pair of hands.[9] Internal records describe a cumulative practice of approximately four thousand years — a figure the studio attributes, with characteristic restraint, to its named patron.

4Geography

PTech’s headquarters lie on the Memphis bluff at coordinates 35.1495° N, 90.0490° W, approximately two blocks east of the Mississippi River. The studio cites proximity to the river as load-bearing to its working method.

5Founder

Fig. — Drew Dickson
Drew Dickson, founder and principal of PTech.

Drew Dickson (Founder · Principal engineer) is the founder and principal of PTech.[10]

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.

External profiles: LinkedIn · Email

6Contact

Ready when you are. Tell us the dream. We'll build it.

Emailinfo@PTechAdvisors.com
AddressMemphis, Tennessee
  • Senior, local, and end-to-end — no junior hand-offs
  • Websites, custom software, and AI under one roof
  • Free and no-obligation — we reply within one business day

Tell us about your project

We'll get back to you within one business day.

No obligation. We’ll only use your details to reply about your project.

or write us — info@PTechAdvisors.com

7References

  1. ^Dickson, D. (2024). "Founding the studio: a working thesis." PTech Studio Notes, vol. 1, no. 1.
  2. ^PTech (2026). "About — Software for people who footnote." Retrieved from ptechadvisors.com.
  3. ^Hornung, E. (1982). Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many. Cornell University Press. General reading.
  4. ^PTech (2026). "Practice areas and published case studies." ptechadvisors.com/work.
  5. ^Dickson, D. (2025). "Four practice areas, one studio." PTech Quarterly, Spring 2025.
  6. ^Allen, J. P. (2014). Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs. 3rd ed. Cambridge University Press. General reading.
  7. ^PTech (2026). "Selected matters, 2024–2026." ptechadvisors.com/work.
  8. ^PTech (2026). "Total Care Physical Therapy — a 20-year Memphis clinic, online at last." ptechadvisors.com/work/total-care.
  9. ^PTech (2026). "About the studio." ptechadvisors.com/about.
  10. ^PTech (2026). "Founder profile: Drew Dickson." ptechadvisors.com/about.
  11. ^PTech (2026). "BanterBox — documents you can talk to, with citations." ptechadvisors.com/work/banterbox.

Nos. 3 and 6 are general reading on the elder Memphis; the rest are the studio citing itself — which every encyclopedia secretly wishes it could do.