Our Founders
The people behind the vision.
Two founders with complementary expertise — one in enterprise engineering and sovereign architecture, the other in product leadership and business operations. Together they're building the platform that makes Silicon Valley's capabilities accessible to everyone.
The Portfolio
From enterprise to sovereign.
Tom's career spans the full arc of modern software — from the early days of enterprise Java through cloud migration, to the AI revolution. Every system he built taught him what worked, what didn't, and what needed to exist but didn't yet. Eigenhitchens is the answer to that last question.
Enterprise Foundation
Built systems at scale for companies that matter. The kind of engineering where uptime isn't a metric — it's a requirement.
The Problem He Saw
Every company renting capabilities from Silicon Valley. Paying monthly for things they should own. Sending their data to servers they don't control.
The Answer He Built
205 repositories. 16 provisional patents. 10 product lines. A sovereign computing platform that puts ownership back in the hands of the people who create.
Co-Founder
Scott Bratcher
20+ years across marketing technology, product management, business development, and software engineering. Scott manages project teams to launch and maintain purpose-built applications and SaaS platforms — delivering efficient workflows and frustration-free user interfaces.
Co-founded Brango Software Solutions. Led Mostly Serious as CEO. Appointed to the City Utilities Board in Springfield, establishing policies on how the utility best serves the community. His development work spans reliable project leadership, stable production deployment, and defining growth phases for scalable applications.
Scott brings the operational discipline and market perspective that turns sovereign technology into products people actually use.
Co-Founder
Tom Rankin
26 years of enterprise engineering. Tom has spent over two decades building systems at scale for companies that needed it done right — the kind of engineering where uptime isn't a metric, it's a requirement.
He saw the same pattern everywhere: companies renting their capabilities from Silicon Valley, paying monthly for things they should own, sending their data to servers they don't control. Eigenhitchens is his answer — 205 repositories, 16 provisional patents, and a sovereign computing platform that puts ownership back in the hands of the people who create.
Tom is the primary technical architect, the DevRel voice, and the reason the 5-layer routing engine answers 75% of questions without touching a cloud model.
Why This Matters
The core reason to believe.
The Silicon Valley model of value-for-fixed-service is ending. The tools are commoditizing. The AI revolution is decentralizing capability. And the people who create things deserve to own what they create. Scott and Tom built Eigenhitchens to make that possible — at every keyboard, for everyone.
See the work.
The best way to understand what Tom built is to see it working.