Who We Are
Focused Team. Diverse Experience.
The spirit and intent behind creating Eigenhitchens is simplicity in access. We believe capability should be available to everyone — not locked behind enterprise contracts, vendor ecosystems, or Silicon Valley gatekeepers.
Eigen Hitchens LLC
Simplicity in access. Capability for everyone.
Our Values
Built around access. Not around gatekeepers.
We believe the tools that create value should be accessible to the people who create it. Not locked behind enterprise sales cycles, not gated by vendor ecosystems, not dependent on someone else's infrastructure.
Every decision passes a simple test: does this make capability more accessible? If yes, we ship it. If not, we go back to the workbench.
Access
For everyone.
Ownership
You keep what you build.
Builders
Everyone ships.
Sovereign
Your tools. Your data.
Team
Focused Team.
Diverse Experience.
We're not a headcount play. Every person here ships production code, talks to clients directly, and owns outcomes. No middle managers. No coordinators. Just builders.
26 years of enterprise engineering distilled into a team that moves fast and explains what it builds.
Scott Bratcher
Co-Founder
20+ years across marketing technology, product management, and software engineering. Co-founded Brango Software Solutions and led Mostly Serious as CEO. Appointed to the City Utilities Board in Springfield. Brings operational discipline and business development expertise to sovereign computing.
Thomas Rankin
Co-Founder
26 years enterprise experience. Built systems at scale for companies that matter. Now building the right way — sovereign software that makes capability accessible to everyone.
Greg Schutta
Strategy & Launch Consultant
Operations, strategy, and the steady hand that keeps the machine running. Greg brings the discipline that turns ambitious ideas into shipped products.
The Name
Why “Eigen Hitchens”?
Two ideas that don't compromise. One name.
Eigen
From eigenvalue · Linear Algebra
In linear algebra, an eigenvalue is the scalar that survives transformation. Multiply a matrix by its eigenvector and the direction doesn't change — only the magnitude. It's the invariant truth inside a system.
The invariant truth. What remains true after every transformation.
Hitchens
Semantic Hitching · Binding Meaning to Structure
Semantic hitching is the act of binding meaning directly to structure — making every label, every connection, every output traceable to the logic that produced it. No ambiguity. No black boxes. Every answer is hitched to the reasoning that generated it.
If the system can't show its work, it shouldn't show an answer.
Credentials
What we bring.
Not buzzwords. Track record.
26 Years Enterprise
Production systems for Fortune 500 companies. Not demos. Not prototypes. Real software at real scale.
AI-First Architecture
Four-layer intelligence hierarchy. Cache, structure, local model, cloud LLM. Most questions never leave the device.
Security Audits
Every deployment reviewed for vulnerability surface. We don't ship what we wouldn't trust with our own data.
Full-Stack Delivery
Frontend to infrastructure. Design to deployment. One team, no handoffs, no gaps.
Wyoming LLC
Incorporated in the state that respects privacy and business autonomy. Lean structure, no overhead.
No Gatekeepers
You email Tom directly. No sales team, no forms, no "schedule a call." Just a conversation between builders.
Contact
I answer my own email.
No gatekeepers. No forms. Just send a message.
Location
Eigen Hitchens LLC, Wyoming