1History
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.
2Geography
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.
3Founder
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.