Elastic Thoughts is a family-owned, veteran-owned engineering practice in South Carolina. We architect and build cloud infrastructure, AI systems and commerce platforms, and we scope tightly enough to tell you when the thing you asked for is not the thing you need.
01 — What we do
Well-Architected reviews, written cost optimization audits, serverless APIs delivered as infrastructure-as-code you own and can redeploy without us, multi-region high availability, and migration planning. Prior delivery under PHI, HIPAA, GxP, PCI and GLBA.
Retrieval bound to citations, agents with spend caps and approval gates, and pipelines that verify their own output before it reaches production. Every agent logs what it spends and stops at a ceiling.
Headless Shopify storefronts on Next.js, Stripe subscriptions with entitlement and proration logic, custom Shopify apps, and the integration work that keeps a catalog in sync with the systems around it.
Customer portals, onboarding flows, data import pipelines and internal admin tooling. Fixed price against a dated milestone schedule. Accessibility to WCAG 2.1 AA where it is a procurement requirement.
Verified retail buyer contacts for wholesale brands. One row per store, every contact cited to the URL it came from. Where a contact cannot be verified the row says so rather than guessing at an address.
Read-only review against a defined rubric. We do not change the code, implement the fixes, or take an ongoing role on the codebase reviewed, which is what keeps the verdict worth having.
02 — Fixed-price services
Four productized services with scope, timeline and price fixed before any work starts.
A written cost optimization audit. Findings ranked by dollars saved against effort required, with an implementation runbook. If your spend is already efficient, the report says so.
Agents that qualify leads, process documents or triage support, built with spend caps, approval gates and a logging dashboard. You get the source.
A custom storefront on Shopify's Storefront API, deployed to Vercel or your own AWS account, with structured data and sitemaps built in.
Wholesale prospect research delivered as CSV and an interactive dashboard, with a fit grade and a reachability score kept deliberately apart.
03 — How we work
A dated schedule priced per milestone, agreed before anything is built. The shape most builds should take.
An hourly rate with a hard ceiling and a stated maximum exposure, for work whose shape is not yet clear.
Ongoing availability against a defined scope.
A working session plus a written summary. The written artefact is the deliverable, not the call.
04 — Credentials
Nearly three years at Amazon Web Services as a Senior Solutions Architect. Chief AWS architect for a global financial advisory firm and for a global IT services firm. Ten years running UNIX, storage, database and development teams at a regional savings bank.
05 — Contact
Walhalla, South Carolina · US Eastern
