About

Why this exists

I started Thede Technologies to build tools meant to outlive their tools.

The thread underneath everything I make is the same: the memories worth keeping deserve a substrate that lasts. Not a feed that gets re-architected every two years. Not a service that gets acquired and sunset. Something that’s still readable when my kids are my age, and still meaningful when they’re trying to understand who their grandfather was from the artifacts he left behind.

I have a small ritual with my boys when something is worth remembering — we open a voice memo together and they help me record the moment in their own words: where we are, what’s happening, why it mattered. It’s a paraphrase of the practice my dad has been quietly running for a decade with a daily email to his siblings, and that my mother’s grandparents ran a hundred years before with handwritten letters I’m typesetting into a book this year. The form keeps changing. The impulse doesn’t. I’m building the modern form of it.

That impulse is what Thede Technologies backs. The flagship is the Tractor & Silo ecosystem — a privacy-first life-tracking platform across web, iOS, and macOS that I’ve been building since 2016. It’s the substrate for the kind of personal data a generation of us has been deliberately capturing for years without anywhere worth keeping it.

The Short Version

I’m Adam Thede — founder of Thede Technologies, a software company based in Nashville, Tennessee. I’m an AI-augmented builder operating a portfolio of products across life-tracking, knowledge management, and personal data infrastructure. The products are the work; everything I write here comes out of being inside them every day.

The Full Story

I started on Wall Street. Spent years at Lehman Brothers managing emerging markets fixed income repurchase agreement trading operations in New York — generating substantial revenue, learning how markets work, and understanding what it means to operate in high-stakes, high-velocity environments.

Then I made a deliberate shift to technology. Graduated from Nashville Software School, joined Vanderbilt University Medical Center to build web applications, and discovered that building software scratched the same itch that trading did — pattern recognition, calculated risk, and the rush of shipping something real.

I moved into engineering leadership at Senior Market Advisors, co-leading a small engineering team and designing the core platform. Today I serve as VP of Engineering at a Nashville tech company, where I’m responsible for the full technical stack — DevOps, infrastructure, feature development, and product discovery.

A hybrid practice, by design

Over the past two years, my day job and my own products have converged into a single practice: AI-augmented building. The same workflow that drives feature delivery at the company where I lead engineering also enables me to build and operate the entire Tractor & Silo ecosystem on my own time as a solo developer — a full-stack web application, an iOS app, and a macOS desktop app.

I’m a builder, not a consultant. The products are the work. What I’ve learned about orchestrating AI agents across a portfolio, about designing personal data infrastructure around a capture–enrich–synthesize arc (capture and enrichment shipping today, cross-source synthesis what we’re building toward), about shipping software you intend to live inside for decades — all of it comes from being inside the products every day, not from advising about them from the outside.

I founded Thede Technologies to back the products I’m building — the Tractor & Silo ecosystem . I write about what I’ve learned building AI-augmented products and orchestrating agents across an entire portfolio. The thread underneath all of it is the same: capture is the gift you’re giving your future self, and the substrate that holds it is worth building carefully.

Technical Stack

Elsewhere

• Resume — Full career history
• LinkedIn — Professional network
• GitHub — Open source and projects
• Personal Site — Photography, archives, and more