Tech for Main Street.
We build software with the places most software skips: the school gym, the lumber yard, the job center, the clinic down the block. You describe it. We build it with you.
Start the conversationPick a shop to see what we built there.
ATHLETICS
K-12 athletic departments
We built a marketplace to help athletic directors find, compare and mange the vendors their programs run on. Reviews from peers, side-by-side comparisons and every contract, in the one place ADs actually check.
We helped athletic directors trade a dozen disconnected tools for one place they can trust.
SCIENCE
A science education nonprofit
We're building a learning platform to help science teachers bring hands-on lessons into their classrooms. Teachers get the right supports and tools engage their students right when they’re planning.
We helped a hands-on science organization give every teacher a coach in their corner.
LUMBER
A lumber yard in the Ohio River Valley
We built a grant tracking service to help communties allocate and track grants. Our tool fills the gap between Salesforce and a spreadsheet.
We helped a lumbermill - in a family for generations - evolve into a tech company
JOB CENTER
Career Development
In the heart of Appalachia, people rebuilding their lives after addiction and incarceration needed a steady way to stay connected to work, support, and each other. We built it with the community leaders who walk alongside them.
Recovery runs on connection. This app keeps folks engaged, supported, and moving forward.
CLINIC
Reproductive health advocates
We built a browsable catalog of reproductive justice films paired with a resource center and volunteer opportunities.
To gather community stories, we created a submission portal for filmmakers to share work to be featured on the site.
PANTRY
e6t5, our give-back program
Everyone's work deserves great tools.
We give real time to pro bono builds and skills-based volunteering, so great tools reach the communities who rarely get them. We've served:
- A church parish office that can fill every volunteer shift without a phone tree
- A youth soccer program that books fields and staff without the weekly juggle
- A community mental health clinic that has more time for the veterans and trauma survivors it serves
We meet you on your terms.
No proposal deck, no discovery phase, no bill. We build the foundation with you for free. If you like what you see, we build the rest together.
We call it a "Zero build"
We partner with you to bring your ideas and your business to life. We build working software you own and your customers use.
The people you'll actually talk to.
We're bringing tech jobs back to our communities.
Half our team is women. Most of us didn't come up through a traditional engineering path.
Mina
Director, Delivery
Peter
Founder
Julia
VP, Delivery
Kevin
Founder
Makenzie
VP, Delivery
Tamer
VP, Engineering
Mina
Director, Delivery
My career started in student affairs, building community and supporting people towards their education goals. Those ideals transferred into my work in EdTech to build product solutions to connect and engage their school communities. At e6, I'm here to bring new ideas, tools and products - of all shapes and sizes - to life. Outside of work, I'm watching food cooking competitions and Jeopardy! or at our local trivia night in my hometown of Goleta, CA with my family.
Peter
Founder
I have been building and operating high quality software systems for over two decades. Whether wood turning in my backyard shop or building the latest software project, I'm always curious and trying to learn something new. I live in Newbury Park, CA with my family. My wife Linda is an author of historical fiction and our four kids keep us busy. I feel strongly about participating in local communities and volunteering in local youth sports as a coach, referee and administrator.
Julia
VP, Delivery
I started my career in classrooms because I believed people could do more than the systems around them allowed. I spent 15 years proving it in EdTech, building products that put better tools in the hands of educators and families. At e6, I lead delivery across the portfolio, working shoulder to shoulder with founders to turn ideas into shipped software. I live in LA with my partner Ace and can usually be found on a trail or playing basketball.
Kevin
Founder
I'm a single father of five adult kids and have built a career translating human needs into technology to help with those needs. I grew up in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and now call San Francisco home. I'm active with St. Stephen's Catholic Church in my neighborhood, and I visit my kids often to give an extra pair of hands as they grow and thrive.
Makenzie
VP, Delivery
I am a daughter of Appalachia, raised in Tennessee, and an alumna of Berea College, known for its no-tuition promise and its mission of opportunity for students across my region. Today, I'm raising two teenagers in Portsmouth, Ohio, with my partner Ali. This fall, I'll join Shawnee State University as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, continuing my commitment to education and opportunity close to home. Locally, I build bridges between entrepreneurs and our community, helping small businesses like Sonder Skin, The CommonWell Collective, and Align Massage Therapy establish their digital presence and reach the people they serve. My partner and I also own a coffee shop, The Landing. My evenings are best spent with friends and family at live music and theater events.
Tamer
VP, Engineering
I was born in Nazareth, grew up in Cupertino, California, and now live in Long Beach with my fiancé. I've built software my whole career, and at e6 I set our technical direction and work directly with customers — often small businesses and operators who were priced out of custom software before — to turn their real problems into something that works. I tend to treat most everything else like an engineering problem too, bringing the same curiosity and rigor to my own health and wellness, from exercise to what I eat, as I do to a hard technical challenge.
COMMUNITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Community
We help people help their communities, with tech that's accessible to anyone.
You don't need a lot of capital
Good ideas shouldn't wait for funding. We'll meet you where you are and help you build for, and in, your community.
Jobs that stay here
We create jobs in your community, instead of sending them overseas or away to Silicon Valley.
We're part of your community
Our team lives across the USA, in towns large and small, on farms and in apartments. We build for our communities, and for yours.
Sustainability
We steward resources wisely, respecting what we've been given so future generations can enjoy it too.
Built on e9, our own platform
Everything we offer runs on e9, home-grown and built from the ground up to be simple and efficient.
Energy efficient by design
We build with Rust and WebAssembly instead of the usual heavy stack, so our software uses a fraction of the memory, power, and water.
Mindful about AI
Paired with our own lean platform, every build stays low-impact long after it ships.
What do you want to build, or make better?
Tell us, and we'll show you where we'd start.
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