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SOFTWARE AS CAPABILITY · Sovereign by Design ·
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Who We Are

Dedicated to creating
something different.

We believe capability should be available to everyone — not locked behind enterprise contracts, vendor ecosystems, or Silicon Valley gatekeepers. Our mission is simple: access to capability for everyone.

Team at eFactory

Eigen Hitchens LLC

Simplicity in access. Capability for everyone.

Our Values

Built for access,
not for gatekeeping.

We believe the tools that create value should be accessible to the people who create it. Our offering won't be locked behind enterprise sales cycles, gated by vendor ecosystems, or 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

Everyone has access.

Builders

Everyone ships.

Ownership

You keep what you build.

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

Scott Bratcher

Co-Founder

25+ years building SaaS platforms, digital strategy, and technology ventures. Founded 3Floors Inc. and SwBratcher, led digital strategy for Fortune 500 brands at Marlin Network, and served six years on the Board of City Utilities of Springfield as Finance Committee Chair. Co-founded Bitcoin Real Estate Finance and DataFlex Energy Partners. Scott brings the business development acumen and market perspective that turns sovereign technology into products people actually use.

Thomas Rankin

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

Greg Schutta

Strategy & Launch Consultant

30 years experience in technology, strategy, and cross-functional orchestration. Operations, strategy, and the steady hand that keeps the machine running. Greg brings the discipline that turns ambitious ideas into shipped products.

Jerick Evans

Jerick Evans

Senior UX Designer

85+ products shipped. Master of Design and MBA. Startup-tested across every stage from napkin sketch to production launch. Jerick lives where design, business, and code converge — and makes sure everything we build is something people actually want to use.

The Name

Why “Eigen Hitchens”?

Two ideas that don't compromise. One name.

λ

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