A working session to understand the dream — what you see, who it serves, what success feels like.
#intakeDI
Define1
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PTK-1201Drafting
02Define · Tongue
We name the thing. Scope, surfaces, the smallest version that proves it works. Written down, signed off.
#scopeDE
Build1
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PTK-1202Review
03Build · Hand
Designed and engineered in the open. Weekly walkthroughs. You see it become real, week over week.
#engineeringBU
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PTK-1203Done
04Endure · Stone
We ship, we maintain, we keep the lights on. The thing should still be working ten years from now.
#maintenanceEN
About
About the team
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.
COORDINATES · 35.1495° N, 90.0490° W
Founder
The founder
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PTK-1001Owner
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.