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'll make Silicon Valley-like capabilities accessible to everyone.
The Portfolio
From enterprise to sovereign.
Their careers span the full arc of modern software — from the early days of enterprise Java through cloud migration, to the AI revolution. Every system they built revealed what worked, what didn't — and most importantly, what needed to exist but didn't yet. Eigenhitchens is the answer to that last question.
Enterprise Foundation
They built systems at scale for companies large and small. No matter the company, category, or audience — everything was built on a level playing field. Every client received top-shelf enterprise systems without compromise.
The Problem They Saw
Every company is renting capabilities from Silicon Valley. Paying monthly for things they should own and sending their data to servers they don't control. The rapid onset of AI should be harnessed to make “rental” a thing of the past.
The Answer They 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
25+ years building technology companies, SaaS platforms, and digital strategy for Fortune 500 brands. Scott founded 3Floors Inc. in 1998, spent six years leading digital strategy and technology teams at Marlin Network for clients including Tracker Marine and Paul Mueller Company, and built SwBratcher into a 14-year MarTech and SaaS product development practice.
He served six years on the Board of City Utilities of Springfield — including as Finance Committee Chair — governing municipal power infrastructure and energy policy. That experience now informs his work co-founding DataFlex Energy Partners and Bitcoin Real Estate Finance, bridging real estate, energy economics, and emerging monetary technology. He's also the author of Why The Future is Bitcoin (2025).
At Eigenhitchens, Scott brings business development, market positioning, and operational discipline — the perspective that turns sovereign technology into products people actually use and ventures that actually close.
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 something is to experience it. We invite you to see what Tom built for yourself.