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 place 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.

When something is worth remembering, I pull out the phone, and my boys add a who or a why if they want to. My dad still writes to his siblings at least once a week. Between 1910 and 1912, my mother’s grandparents wrote each other the handwritten letters I’m typesetting into a book. 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 and Silo ecosystem, a life-tracking platform across web, iOS, and macOS that I’ve been building since 2016. It’s a place for the kind of personal data a generation of us has been deliberately capturing for years without anywhere worth keeping it.

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.

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 and Silo ecosystem on my own time as a solo developer: a full-stack web application, an iOS app, and a macOS desktop app.

I don’t advertise consulting, but I’d entertain it if it came to me. 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, 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 and 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 place that holds it is worth building carefully.