Technical advisory for founders & builders.
Beau Button, L.L.C. is a Texas-based technical advisory practice. I work with founders and teams on the architecture, AI, and scaling decisions behind building products that last — drawing on years designing and scaling venture-backed products as a founder, president, and CTO.
What I help with
Senior technical judgment, on demand
A few of the areas founders bring me in on. See services →
Software architecture
Choosing the stack, data models, and system boundaries so an early product can grow without falling over.
AI & agentic systems
Building with LLMs and autonomous agents in a way that actually ships — from prototype to production.
Technical due diligence
Evaluating a codebase, architecture, or team for founders and investors ahead of a raise or acquisition.
Scaling early-stage products
Taking a working MVP to something reliable: performance, infrastructure, and the hard calls that come with growth.
Recent thinking
Notes on systems, AI & scaling
A sample of what I write about. More on LinkedIn.
Systems design
"I like designing systems I can reason about at 2 a.m."
Debuggability is a design constraint, not an afterthought. At small scale, reliability beats cleverness — every time.
Read on LinkedIn →AI & orchestration
"The future of AI is moving toward orchestration."
The value shifts from who can do one thing fastest to who can coordinate systems best — keeping them coherent as speed increases.
Read on LinkedIn →Right-sizing architecture
"Most systems are overbuilt for the team actually using them."
If you're a team of one to five, your system should reflect that — easy to understand, easy to debug, and hard to break.
Read on LinkedIn →Infrastructure
"The best infrastructure becomes invisible."
When systems work well, people move through them naturally. The real value shifts from the tool layer into operations.
Read on LinkedIn →Currently Building
Where the experience comes from
The advisory practice is grounded in day-to-day work leading two venture-backed products.
President, CTO & Co-founder
A location-based gaming company behind ATLAS:EARTH, where players buy virtual real estate mapped to the real world and earn rewards — including cash back on everyday card spending.
atlasreality.com →
President, CTO & Co-founder
A rewards platform for the gaming economy. Players link a Visa or Mastercard and earn in-game currency from everyday purchases, while retailers fund the rewards through a performance-driven model.
tesoroxp.com →Have a problem worth solving?
A good problem will always get my attention. Tell me what you're building.