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THE SOFTWARE PRACTICE OF ANTHONY GARCES

Tools wait. Engines run.

  • Web apps
  • Mobile apps
  • AI automation
  • Rescues
  • Integrations

You've been buying software that waits for your team. Anito builds the engine that runs the business — led by Anthony Garces, a named principal, with a team where nobody signs off on their own work.

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THE TOOL LANE

Work arrives

Stops every time

THE ENGINE LANE

Work arrives

Stops once — for you

One stopThe engine asks you once — answer already drafted
FreeThe Engine Map is yours, hire us or not
Day oneRepo, hosting, credentials in your name
ZeroExit fee — leave whenever, nothing held hostage

THE IDEA

Twelve logins. Less time than five years ago.

Every tool you bought was supposed to help. Look at what actually happened.

Someone exports from one system and imports to another.

Someone checks whether the thing that was supposed to happen happened.

Someone re-types what's already written down somewhere else.

Someone builds the report by hand because the software has the data but not the answer.

None of that is your team being slow. That's them doing the work your software can't.

A tool is a place a person has to go. It waits. It only moves when somebody moves it.

You didn't buy the wrong tools. Tools are the wrong shape.

THE MECHANISM

An engine doesn't wait.

It picks the work up when it arrives. Carries it the whole way. Handles what it can handle. And when it reaches something only a person should decide —

it comes to you, with the answer already drafted.

One decision from you. Then it keeps going.

Tools wait. Engines run.

WHAT CHANGES

What it's like when the engine is running.

Nobody re-types anything. Not once.

The report is already written when you go looking for it.

The thing that broke tells you before your customer does.

The weird one gets caught, flagged, and put in front of a human — with a draft reply attached.

Someone new starts Monday and is useful Wednesday, because the system holds the knowledge instead of one person's memory.

And growth stops meaning hiring.

01 / THE FIVE PARTS

The five parts of an engine.

Not services. Parts of the engine — pick the one that's missing or seized in your business.

WEBSITE RESCUE

Broken checkout. Developer unreachable. Every day down is revenue gone.

A broken contact form, a failed checkout, a four-second load — each one quietly costs you. Anito's founder spent four years running platform support at Pantheon and two more fixing WooCommerce stores: broken sites with unreachable developers are familiar ground. Every rescue starts with a technical audit.

Pain

Something revenue-facing is broken, slow, hacked, or abandoned.

Outcome

The part of the engine that's seized — running again, fast.

Every build includes optional ongoing care from the same engineer who built it.

WHY NOT YOURSELF

You could build this yourself.

It means mapping every workflow, connecting a dozen systems that were never meant to talk to each other, putting judgment at every stop, and testing what happens when each one fails at 2am.

That's months. And bolting intelligence onto a bad structure instead of building it in is how you get faster chaos instead of an engine.

We build engines. That's the whole job.

02 / PROOF

Proof you can inspect.

No invented case studies. No stock testimonials. What you can check instead: seventeen years of career history and working open-source code — public, linked, and verifiable.

Ranex

Deterministic governance for AI agents that build software. A kernel outside the AI's loop judges work by evidence and executable checks — never by model confidence.

Pre-releasePython · MIT

Oryzn

A trustworthy, immutable audit trail for GitHub Projects — who changed what, from what to what, when, and whether it was automated.

MVP prototypeTypeScript

Arxic

Evidence-driven behavioral intent compiler — replayable Playwright workflow bundles with provenance and coverage.

Folding into RanexTypeScript · MIT

Leitir

A checksum-verified corpus of dependency source code, so AI agents read real library internals instead of hallucinating them.

Not production-readyPython

Anthony Garces — Founder & Principal Engineer

17+ years in IT · ex-Pantheon · Senior Principal Lead Architect

LinkedIn GitHub

The straight answer: Anito is a new practice. When there are client outcomes to show, they will be named and checkable. Until then, nothing on this site is invented — that is the standard the work is held to as well.

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Code
Lives in your repo, in your name
Services
Run under your accounts
Access
Every login and credential handed to you directly
Vendor dependence
None — switch or leave at any time, zero exit fee

03 / BY THE NUMBERS

Numbers you can verify — not vanity metrics

17+

Years in IT — help desk to principal architect. On the record at LinkedIn.

4 yrs

Platform WebOps at Pantheon — caching, scaling, pre-launch load tests for mission-critical sites

Live100%

Code, accounts, and credentials in your name from the first commit

0

Invented case studies or testimonials on this site — every claim links to a source

Every figure above links to something you can check. Nothing here is invented.

04 / PROCESS

Diagnose first. Build only what matters.

The short path is here. The full seven-step method stays on the process page when you want the details.

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    We map the business pain, current systems, risks, and ownership before we quote.

  2. 02

    Scope

    You get the written path, fixed milestones, and the honest no if another route is better.

  3. 03

    Build

    The engineer who scoped the work ships it in visible increments, inside your accounts.

  4. 04

    Care

    After launch, the same engineer can monitor, maintain, and improve what you own.

See the full 7-step process

05 / WRITING

Straight answers, free — hire me or don't.

Plain-language guides on the decisions owners face before they hire anyone. No sign-up, no gate.

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06 / NEXT STEP

See where your business is running on people.

Tell us what's manual. You get a map of where the work stops and waits for a human — and what an engine would do instead.

See your engine map
Anthony Garces - Founder & Principal Engineer

I read every engine map request myself.

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