About

The team

You work with the people who have done it.

The people

Ben "The Automator" Christensen

The Automation Guy

Automation and AI-assisted engineering. Turns manual, repetitive work into systems that run without being watched.

Title: CEO and Co-Founder
Years of experience: 20+
Ten industries: Banking; Fintech and Payments; Healthcare; Government and Federal Contracting; Managed Security Services; Security Software; Higher Education; Travel and Hospitality; Web Hosting and Domains; Agricultural Technology
Fractional VP of Technology, Nairobi Lighting
Fractional CIO, Kentucky College of Art + Design
Founder, Automator Solutions
Has led a 22-person engineering organization
Automated his own job twice
More than 18,000 GitHub contributions in the past year across 175 repositories of my own (as of November 2026)
Titles held: Principal Engineer, Engineering Manager, Vice President of Technology, CIO, CTO, CEO
Focus: automation, AI-assisted engineering, security

230 roles'worth of work automated, worth more than $20M a year at market pay

650,000 hoursof tasks automated

Meet Ben

Logan Hicks

The Systems Guy

Security, infrastructure and AI engineering, from the defense community to cloud and payments. Has led engineering teams of 50 or more.

Title: Principal engineer, co-founder
Years of experience: 20+
Range: defense and intelligence community, cloud, payments, managed security
Defense community: Army satellite communications, the Pentagon, the White House Communications Agency, federal cyber programs
Also: Amazon, Mastercard, Pondurance
Focus: security, infrastructure, AI and machine learning, penetration testing

Meet Logan

The crew

Hex

Stays with our customers.

The Mad Scientist

Runs the lab: what's next.

Three jobs to look at

Real jobs you can look at, each with its own case. Custom software, fractional leadership and advisory in one package.

Nairobi

STATED

Rebuilt Nairobi Control from scratch with a fully custom interface, keeping its link to the firmware unchanged; control of one Nairobi or a whole group at once over Bluetooth Mesh; wireless firmware updates through a private, verified update service; a test harness that runs the real firmware code beside the app; and automated build, security and release pipelines.

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Kentucky College of Art + Design

STATED

One admissions portal for staff with single sign-on and role-based access, merging each applicant into a single record, with built-in document signing, approval routing that produces documents such as award letters, and student-privacy controls that log every time a record is opened; a student portal with secure link sign-in where each student sees their whole checklist and timeline; a scheduling app that replaces Calendly; texting, custom email, notifications and alerts; and custom integrations with the systems they already use.

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First Class Ops

STATED

A suite of 27 online tools with bundles, checkout through Stripe and a custom payment integration, a customer portal and an admin console; sign-up from an ad straight into the suite; CRM tags for new, cancelled and returning customers; and a usage page that shows which customers are drifting away.

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Show me it is real.