About Anito
That is a reasonable thing to be careful about. So rather than a page about our values, here is everything about us you can verify without taking our word for any of it.
01 / The record
Anybody can put a logo and a contact form on a website. These are the things that are harder to fake and easy for you to check.
02 / How we work
Promises are cheap. These are written the way they are because each one describes something you can observe happening during your project, or notice the absence of.
A written scope arrives before development starts: the features, what is deliberately left out, what it depends on, the milestones, the payment stages, and what counts as done. Anything new that comes up later gets a written estimate before it enters the build, not after.
User journeys, screens, the systems it connects to, and what data it needs are yours to review while changing them is still cheap. Architecture decisions get written down with the reason behind them and the limits they introduce, so the next team inherits the thinking and not just the code.
The team builds in increments you can open and click through. QA runs the agreed workflows, the failure cases, and the supported devices. The person who implemented a change does not approve that change, which is the ordinary way real software teams work and the first thing that gets dropped under deadline.
The release plan names the deployment steps, the data changes, the rollback path, and who says go. Your handover is the code, the configuration instructions, the account inventory, and an honest list of what is still outstanding. It is written so another team could pick it up without calling us.
03 / The founder
Anthony founded Anito and remains the accountable contact on every engagement. Delivery is a team effort, and nobody on it approves their own work, including him.
Founder · Senior Principal Lead Architect
Seventeen years in IT, starting on a service desk and ending up as a principal architect. The middle of that includes four years at Pantheon running the technical support team that got the call when mission-critical sites fell over, plus years of WooCommerce and WordPress rescue work for small businesses in Australia and the US. That order matters: the diagnose-before-you-touch-anything habit comes from years of triaging other people’s broken systems, not from a certification.
BA Multimedia Studies, University of the Philippines Open University, 2010–2015.
Check every role on LinkedInMightyBox · California
Multi-year enterprise technology roadmap. Architecture governance, security protocols, cloud migrations. Final authority on high-risk system designs and vendor evaluation.
Pantheon · California
Platform-level WebOps for WordPress and Drupal, caching, scaling strategy, pre-launch load testing for mission-critical sites. Promoted from senior engineer; ran the team.
WooAssist · Australia
WooCommerce builds, fixes, and store rescues for small businesses in AU and the US.
Hexagon PM Solutions · Lead A Better Business
Full-stack web delivery, project management, and database administration.
TELUS International · Convergys · Sykes Asia
Where the diagnose-first habit comes from: years of triaging other people's broken systems before touching anything.
Every role above appears on the public LinkedIn profile linked from this page. If one of them does not, tell us and we will fix it.
04 / The honest no
Nobody writes this section, which is exactly why it is worth reading. If you are in one of these four, you will get told, and you will get told before you have spent anything.
If what you need is a handful of pages and a contact form, a good WordPress theme or a Squarespace site will do it faster and for a fraction of the money. We will say so, and we will tell you what to look for.
Some deadlines cannot be met without shipping something that hurts you. We will tell you what is genuinely achievable in the time you have. Where the honest answer is nothing worth having, that is the answer you get.
We will lose that one, and we would rather lose it here than in month three. The cheapest quote is usually cheapest for a reason, and the reason tends to show up after the deposit clears.
We work remotely from the Philippines across US and Australian hours, writing decisions down as we go. If the project needs people physically in your office, that is not us and we will say so on the first email.
05 / The company
Anito System Solutions Inc. is a registered Philippine corporation, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 16, 2025 and with the Bureau of Internal Revenue the following month. We design and develop websites and applications, take on codebases other people left behind, and keep software running afterwards.
Open source
Reading marketing copy tells you very little about how somebody builds. Reading their code tells you a lot. Anthony publishes working open-source projects with their real status written on the front page, including the parts that are not finished.
Read the codeNext step
Tell us what is broken, what you are trying to build, or what you have been quoted by somebody else. You get back a plain reply about what we would do, what it depends on, and whether you need us at all.
Replies come from a person. No automated sequence, no pressure, and an honest no when that is the right answer. Please leave passwords and customer data out of the form. Access gets arranged separately and safely.