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Ptech Lab Notebook · Vol. I · 2025–2026Property of Ptech Studio
Ptech
Notebook · Bench Edition
Day One — Field Notes

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.

← start here!
A studio in Memphis, Tennessee · est. 2024
↙ same idea, every project
Fig. 1.1hypothesis sketch — bench → product
Observations:
Websites·Custom software·AI systems·Internal tools·E-commerce·Brand systems·Workflow automation·Mobile apps·API design·Migrations
Experiments I–IV
what we run, repeatably
EXP-001 · WEB
I.

Lab & program sites

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

Fig. 2.1 — observed, repeatable
EXP-002 · AI
II.

Sample & assay AI

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

Fig. 2.2 — observed, repeatable
EXP-003 · SW
III.

Internal data tools

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

Fig. 2.3 — observed, repeatable
EXP-004 · OPS
IV.

Pipeline automation

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

Fig. 2.4 — observed, repeatable
Protocol — Four Steps
standard operating procedure ↓
01
Step 01

Discover

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

02
Step 02

Define

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

03
Step 03

Build

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

04
Step 04

Endure

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

Specimens — Taped In
preserved from the bench
#01 · 2025
AI platform · Interactive reading
BanterBox Books
sample A — eureka · EdTech · publishing

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

#02 · 2025
Practice site · Patient intake
Total Care PT
sample B — pending repeat · Healthcare · Memphis

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

#03 · 2024
E-commerce · Corporate gifting
Memphis Gift Basket
sample C — clean run · Retail · Memphis

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

Equipment & Reagents
bench inventory — checked weekly
FE · Shelf 1

Frontend

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Framer Motion
  • Radix UI
BE · Shelf 2

Backend

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Node.js
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • Prisma
AI · Shelf 3

AI

  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • OpenAI
  • LangChain
  • RAG · pgvector
  • Embeddings
  • Eval harnesses
OPS · Shelf 4

Infra

  • Vercel
  • Cloudflare
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Sentry
Notes on the Bench

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.

Principal Investigator
Drew Dickson
Fig. 5.0 — P.I., bench-side
about the principal investigator

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.

Ready when you are

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

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