software studio · est. 2024

AI software, shaped around how your company actually works.

Cambrian Systems is a small studio. We embed with your team, find the eight-hour-a-week problem nobody has time to fix, and ship a tool that disappears it. The tool lives inside Slack, Teams, Discord, your codebase, your stack. No new dashboard. No off-the-shelf SaaS.

Slack
Microsoft Teams
Discord
API · self-hosted

We build the tool that should exist but doesn’t. Then we run it for you.

01 / OBSERVE
Find the eight-hour task.

We sit with your team. We map the workflow that’s costing real hours and find the one nobody volunteers to own.

02 / DESIGN
Shape it to your stack.

No new dashboards. We build into the tools your team is already in. Chat, code, docs, ticketing.

03 / SHIP
Production from day one.

Self-hosted or managed. Real connectors, sourced answers, audit trails. Not a demo.

04 / OPERATE
We don’t disappear.

We maintain what we build. New connector, new framework, new edge case. It stays our problem.

What we’re building. Both started as patterns we kept hearing from small teams.

// Two systems currently in development. Born from conversations with dozens of SMBs about the same recurring pain. If your team’s problem rhymes with one of these, we’d love to talk. First deployments are landing soon.

// HAVE A PROBLEM IN MIND?
Tell us the eight-hour task you’d kill if you could. We’ll tell you whether we’d want to build it.

A small team. Embeds with yours.

FOUNDER

Grady Burns

Founder · Cambrian Systems

Full-stack engineer with infrastructure and security-ops chops. Studies Computer Science and Cybersecurity at Kansas State (Sophomore · 3.7 GPA · honors program). Builds shipped systems across the stack: UI design systems, Rust backends, k3s clusters. Also runs day-to-day IT and observability for an 80-person finance org.

OPERATIONS

Hayden Thatcher

COO · Cambrian Systems

Drives Cambrian's day-to-day operations and client experience. Studies Psychology with a Computer Science minor at UMKC (Class of 2028). Background in consumer-facing leadership at Nike and high-pressure decision-making as a soccer captain and youth-league referee. Keeps client relationships, scheduling, and follow-through tight.

ENGINEERING

Ethan Fulton

CTO · Cambrian Systems

Leads the security and threat-intel side of Cambrian's stack. Computer Science (Honors, 4.0 GPA) at UAB. CompTIA Security+ certified. VP of UAB's DragonByte cybersecurity club. Volunteers at Intelligence for Good, where his reports have led to investigations of $600K+ in crypto-scam assets. Works fluently across Linux and Windows hardening, malware analysis, and reverse-engineering undocumented APIs.

GROWING

More to come

Cambrian is growing

We're constantly growing here at Cambrian. New names land in this row as the studio expands.