tools worthy of our time

For a decade, I've been a software engineer, living in the trenches of back-office automation, building tools for the unsung heroes who keep our businesses running. I've watched brilliant minds trapped in endless cycles of data entry, seen skilled professionals reduced to human APIs, copying and pasting between systems older than the internet itself. The real cost isn't just just efficiency - it's in the quiet erosion of pride and purpose in our work.

At Obelisk, we believe human expertise should guide intelligent systems, not serve them. The truth is, we spend a lot of time at work - it's now time we demand more from these hours. We deserve work that challenges our creativity, respects our intelligence, and makes us proud of what we've done at the end of the day. If we're investing our lives in this, let's make it work worth doing.

Let's start building.

— Spenser
Founder, Obelisk