Lithic Tech

Early Startups with Complex Tech

We know how hard it is to be a founder. It’s especially difficult when you don’t have the expertise to solve your technical problems yourself. Startups like this are our happy place.

We’ll work to make sure we all understand the problems you need solved, and then decide on a solution that fits your needs in terms of feature set, technology, and scalability. We’ll also make sure we’re working towards your long-term plans, depending on the type of business and team growth you expect.

We think about what we build as a Minimum Lovable Product, rather than merely “minimally viable.” Our work should be delightful and do a stellar job running your business, whether you’re looking for hockeystick growth or aiming for something steady and hands-off.

Our special sauce comes down to our unique and effective methods. They are the key to getting things done with both speed and quality. This Shangri-La does’t come from nowhere — it’s been earned through years of training and discipline.

Companies with Backend Programming Needs

We’re skilled in all parts of the stack, but our real expertise and passion is around backend programming. Many of our clients are agencies or consultancies themselves, but they lack some deep technical expertise because it’s outside of their core competency.

We love working with clients like this, both because our expertise is a great fit, but also because we get to learn something new about your market and business.

Some examples of what we’ve built for clients like this are:

• Machine Learning and OCR-based service for rapid classification of faxes.
• High-performance import pipeline of millions of rows of CSV data into a transaction database.
• Cloud cost analysis tooling capable of interactive projections over big data.
• Cutting edge content management system prototype development.
• Behavioral health intake and patient management software.
• Massively parallelizable and resilient data ingest of micromobility feeds.

The reason we’re able to execute whatever we take on is that our founding team has seen a lot in their career, and our methods haven proven to be the key for high-performing softare development. We apply this career of learning to your projects to make sure they’re done right.

DevOps, Golang, Ruby, Python, and Postgres Expertise

Finally, Lithic has expertise in certain technologies that make us a good fit for project or retainer-based setups where you need a team or individual who truly and deeply knows a technical domain.

This may be building a new Continuous Integration and Deployment pipeline, debugging and removing performance bottlenecks, performing a general cleanup and overhaul of a codebase, consulting on application architecture, or really anything that leverages some of our deep technical expertise.

Usually these engagements are shorter, but we take them on because they can have an enormous impact on your success. And at the end of the day, we’re in this to build successful and happy businesses — both our own, and yours.