WE FIX
STUPID
Not stupid people. Stupid systems. The kind that make smart people do dumb things because that's the only way to get work done.
Superaxe started with a spreadsheet. 47 of them, actually.
I was consulting for a fintech company that managed $50 million through a maze of interconnected Excel files. One guy knew how they worked. He quit.
That's when I realized: this is everywhere. Every company has some system that's held together with prayers and one person who "gets it." And when that person leaves, everyone panics.
So I started killing these systems. One by one. Spreadsheet hells, Jenkins nightmares, PHP codebases that contained actual apologies in the comments.
The name came from a client. After we finished migrating their entire operation off a database that predated the iPhone, their CTO said: "You guys are like an axe. A super axe. You just... axe things."
Dumb name? Maybe. But it stuck. And now we axe bad systems for a living.
THE RULES
BRUTAL HONESTY
We'll tell you if your system is garbage. We'll also tell you if you don't actually need us. Lying wastes everyone's time.
SHIP OR SHUT UP
Endless planning is for consultants. We build things that work. If it's not in production, it doesn't count.
MAKE IT BORING
Exciting infrastructure is bad infrastructure. We want your systems to be so reliable they're boring.
NO HOSTAGES
We document everything. We train your team. You should be able to fire us the day after we finish.
SAN DIEGO, CA
But we work with teams everywhere. Time zones are just numbers.
Yes, we work from a place with good weather.
No, it doesn't make us less serious.