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About Runpoint

Operators who build. Builders who operate.

We replace the software your business rents with systems it owns, and we put AI to work inside them. What we build goes into daily use, and it is yours after we leave.

Every project is led by an operator-engineer: someone who has run a team or a P&L and can also ship real software.

01Your core team

Five people lead every Runpoint project.

The founders set the direction with each client. An operator-engineer owns the build and brings in specialists from the pool when the work needs them.

  • Matthew Hall
    Co-founder · Atlanta

    Matthew Hall

    Strategy and delivery
    Publicis Sapient · Cox

    Fifteen years leading client engagements, P&Ls and product teams. He learned to build because the gap between what the business needed and what got shipped was costing real money.

  • Sam Gaddis
    Co-founder · Austin

    Sam Gaddis

    Engineering and product
    Fortune 500 AI delivery

    A decade building and shipping AI systems, from development pipelines that handle thousands of tickets to enterprise platforms. He has built and sold AI automation companies.

  • Ryan Mish
    Operator-engineer · Orlando

    Ryan Mish

    CRM and client systems
    Pinpoint Interactive · Nora

    Six years designing CRMs, client portals and complex interfaces for real users. He founded a studio for small businesses and Nora, an AI customer service teammate.

  • Riley Spiller
    Operator-engineer · Austin

    Riley Spiller

    Workflow automation
    Magic Leap · Centex Auto Title

    Built Magic Leap's first app store, then led systems engineering for a regulated auto title business. He turns spreadsheet-heavy processes into software people actually use.

  • Jonathan Layton
    Operator-engineer · Greenville

    Jonathan Layton

    Data migration
    Complete Network · United Family Care

    Owned an internal software product through a private equity acquisition, then ran technical due diligence for a healthcare roll-up. He once cut 300 hours of yearly manual work to three.

02Practitioner pool

When your project needs a specialist, we call someone we know by name.

Everyone in the pool has shown us real work before joining. Many come through Overflow, the community of AI builders we run in Austin.

42
Operator-engineers
in the pool today
Builders talking in small groups in a brewery event room, two of them looking at a laptop at a high-top table
Overflow · Austin
Industries our members know in depth
  • Telehealth and clinical services
  • E-commerce and Shopify
  • Agencies and professional services
  • Creator media and advertising
  • B2B software
  • AI developer tools
  • Games and real-time engines
  • 3D printing and fabrication
  • Music and creative businesses
Specialties they bring
  • Security review and hardening
  • Privacy and regulatory compliance
  • Billing and payment integrity
  • CRM and lead pipelines
  • Back-office automation
  • Cross-system integration
  • Headless commerce
  • Accessibility
  • AI evaluation
  • Infrastructure and reliability
A few of the people we call
  • Healthcare software

    Runs a live, compliance-sensitive telehealth platform.

  • Agency delivery

    Ships client software to production through his own review pipeline.

  • Products and AI services

    A former enterprise program director, now running his own products and AI services business.

  • E-commerce

    Builds headless Shopify storefronts and the automation that keeps them running.

  • Marketing and AI features

    Ships marketing sites and AI product features, plus the go-to-market around them.

  • Delivery discipline

    Runs coding agents like a delivery team.