Who we are

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Company overview

The basics.

Company

Blue Octopus Technology LLC

Founded

2025

Location

Franklin, North Carolina

Service Area

United States (remote-first)

Founder

Jason Shannon — Founder & Senior Engineer

Contact

hello@blueoctopustechnology.com

Software consultancy that configures AI workstations for mid-market commercial trades and distribution firms. Hardware, engineering, and a recurring relationship. We explain everything in plain English.

Founder

Jason Shannon.

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of professional development experience. BS in Computer Engineering from NC State University. Emmy Award winner.

Former defense contractor building radar display software for fighter jets. Experience spans broadcast television, defense systems, enterprise SaaS, and AI agent development.

Services

What we sell.

AI Junior on a Box

Configured AI workstation that sits on someone's desk and acts as their AI junior. Hardware, engineering, and a recurring relationship — the headline product.

Custom Software Development

Purpose-built applications designed around specific business processes. Client portals, dashboards, internal tools, integrations.

AI Integration

Practical AI agents connected to existing business systems. Document processing, automated outreach, intelligent data extraction, agent configuration.

Workflow Automation

Self-healing automations that connect existing software, eliminate manual steps, and fix their own errors.

AI Readiness Audit

Assessment of your business processes, tools, and data to identify where AI saves the most time and where the data substrate needs work first.

AI Agent Setup

Production deployment of AI agents that handle scheduling, customer inquiries, document assembly, and report generation.

AI Visibility Setup

Get your business recommended by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI assistants through structured data and answer-optimized content.

SOP-to-AI Audit

Turn your written standard operating procedures into AI-ready workflows with step-by-step automation analysis.

Differentiators

What makes us different.

We explain everything in plain English — no jargon, no upselling

We build around how you already work, not the other way around

Local-first inference on the box, frontier models in the cloud only when warranted

Self-healing automations that detect and fix their own errors

You own your software and your hardware — no per-seat lock-in

We don't disappear after launch — recurring engagement is the model

Real projects, real code, real results — no fake case studies

Industries

Who we work with.

Commercial Mechanical ContractorsCommercial Electrical ContractorsPaving + Site WorkHVAC Equipment DistributionReal EstateDental & Medical PracticesLaw FirmsAccounting FirmsHome Services

Our headline focus is mid-market commercial trades + distribution firms — where back-office throughput is the ceiling on growth. Other industries on the list are legacy fits we still serve when the engagement makes sense.

Stack

Technologies we work with.

Next.jsReactTypeScriptPythonRustC#/.NETNode.jsPostgreSQLSQLiteTailwind CSSClaude APIOpenAI APILocal LLMs (Qwen, Llama, Mistral)VercelAWS

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