About

A piton is what you trust when it matters.

It is a small piece of hardware driven into rock. Nobody admires it, nobody photographs it, and everything above it depends on it holding. That is the kind of software we set out to build.

The company

Piton HQ LLC is a software development company registered in Georgia. We design, build and operate platforms in three settings — healthcare, business and personal — and we own the platforms we build, licensing them to the operators that run them.

The company grew out of building one of these systems rather than out of a plan to sell software. That shapes what we are good at: operational work with real consequences, where the interesting problems are in the data model, the access rules and the reconciliation, and where the screens are the easy part.

Who you work with

Piton is deliberately small. The person who scopes your project is the person who designs it and the person who maintains it afterwards — there is no handoff from the people who understood the problem to the people who write the code, because that handoff is where most of the understanding is lost.

The practical consequence is that we take on few engagements at a time and say so when we are full. It is the trade we have chosen, and we would rather be straightforward about it than sound larger than we are.

Where we are

Georgia, United States. We work remotely with clients elsewhere, and on site during scoping when the work is operational enough that watching it happen beats hearing it described — which, in our experience, is most of the time.

Principles

Three things we do not trade away.

01

Own the boring parts

Access control, audit trails, backups, escalation, reconciliation. They are the whole reason the system can be relied on, and they never make the demo. We build them first anyway.

02

Build against the real process

Not the process as documented, and not the one the software would prefer. The one people actually follow at four in the afternoon when something has gone wrong.

03

Leave it operable

Documented, exportable and possible to run without us. If a client can leave easily and chooses not to, that is the only endorsement worth having.

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Worth a conversation?

The quickest way to find out is to describe the work. We will tell you early if we are not the right fit for it.