Location
Chicago, IL

Know what works.Automate what repeats.Grow.

One system built for your business — software, data, and the automation underneath it. The technical and marketing leadership you can't yet hire. You own everything we ship.

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Scroll — What we buildEST 2022
Web & product buildsCRMEmail + SMSPortalsTicketingAnalyticsAI workflowsAutomation
/ 01 — What we build

One studio.
The whole stack.

Four layers, one studio. The site out front, the platform underneath, the numbers that read it, and the intelligence that works it.

01 / Build

Sites and software, shipped.

Marketing sites and full product builds — designed, written, and shipped to production. Not mockups, not decks. Live links.

  • +Production web + product builds
  • +Brand systems & design
  • +Next.js / Vercel, built to last
02 / Platform

The system underneath.

One platform every build plugs into — so the things we ship for you talk to each other instead of living in five disconnected tools.

  • +CRM + unified contacts
  • +Email + SMS marketing
  • +Client portals & spaces
  • +Ticketing + analytics
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03 / Signal

Numbers that tell you what to do.

Every build is instrumented from day one. Revenue, leads, and campaign performance in one place — so marketing spend follows evidence instead of instinct.

  • +Reporting unified across channels
  • +Attribution back to revenue
  • +Live dashboards, not monthly PDFs
04 / Intelligence

AI that does the work.

Automation and copilots wired into the platform — not a chatbot bolted on. The system acts, drafts, and routes, with a human on the gate.

  • +Workflow automation
  • +AI copilots & relays
  • +Metered, white-labeled
/ Proof — we run on it

Your business, one text away.

Ask what’s still open. Reply to a customer. Add the contact before you forget. Set the reminder that actually fires. An AI operator sits on your live data and answers over SMS — no app, no login, no seat to buy — with a human on the gate before anything leaves the building. It remembers what you told it last week.

Operator

Nothing leaves the building unapproved

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/ 02 — Who it’s for

Operators who
want it run.

Different businesses, one need — the real thing built and running, not a pitch and not a patchwork to babysit.

01

Endurance & sports brands

Events, athletes, and media. A pro presence out front and the registration-to-marketing pipeline behind it.

02

Local operators

Service and retail businesses replacing a patchwork of tools with one site that quietly runs the business.

03

Founders & product teams

People who want software actually shipped and running — on infrastructure they'd never staff for.

/ 03 — How we work

Receipts, not decks.

01

Ship, don't deck.

Every build goes to production. We show you the live thing, not a slide.

02

One platform underneath.

CRM, email, payments, analytics — everything we ship for you connects.

03

Built to hand over.

You own the system and the data in it. No lock-in. No rented agency.

/ For developers

The platform has an API.

Send email and SMS and run AI from your own product — through your verified domain and A2P-registered number, not a shared relay. One key, every channel, metered.

Read the API docs→
curl · POST /api/v1/email/send
curl https://tegomarketing.com/api/v1/email/send \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer tego_k_…" \
  -d '{ "to": "you@brand.com", "subject": "Live",
        "html": "<p>Sent as you.</p>" }'
/ 04 — Insights

Field notes.

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/ tech · 8 min

Home Assistant went from 69,000 installs to 660,000. The board it runs on went from $120 to $305.

Operators who can now write their own software need somewhere to run it that they own, and the demand is measurable. So is the obstacle: the same AI buildout that made the software nearly free is bidding against them for the memory to run it. Raspberry Pi's price increase works out to exactly $5 per gigabyte.

/ tech · 9 min

Kalshi bans athletes from trading their own games. Nobody has written the rule for a company that can make it rain.

Every prediction market bars the people who can move the outcome. That rule has always worked because influence left a record. A funded weather-modification industry breaks the assumption — not because seeding is powerful, but because its effect is invisible at exactly the resolution a contract settles at. You cannot prove you made it rain. You also cannot prove you didn't.

/ tech · 8 min

Humane raised $230M and shipped 10,000 units. A $600K Indiegogo is still selling e-paper phones.

The AI hardware that tried to replace your software is dead. The hardware that reshapes software you already run is a business. What changed isn't the silicon — the software layer went free, so the only thing left to sell is a physical decision about what the device will not do.

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