Annex Tech · Est. 2026 · Chicago

The hands that
build the house.

Annex Tech is the in-house engineering arm. We design, code, and ship every product that carries the Annex mark. We partner with builders who ship more than they talk.

The Work

Nine ventures. One team.

Each venture needs a real interface, a real backend, and real deploys. Annex Tech makes them. Nine ventures, one loop, same team behind every screen.

i.

TooFaded

Drop system, inventory, fulfillment. Cannabis-culture streetwear that ships on time.

ii.

LuluClaw

Kernel-sandboxed agent hosting. Sixty-second deploys. Every agent in its own cell.

iii.

SproutDo

Gamified task logic. Streaks, points, growing plants, small wins that compound.

iv.

Voks

Tournament infrastructure for an esports org. Performance over presence.

v.

Signal

Encrypted delivery. Institutional-grade market research with private access.

vi.

Circulo

La tanda, on-chain. Pool savings with family and neighbors, everyone gets paid.

The Workflow

Think. Plan. Design. Build. Review. Test. Ship. Reflect.

Eight phases, one loop, run tight. Every project Annex Tech touches goes through the same pipeline. No shortcuts at the top. No prayers at the bottom.

i.

Think

/office-hours

Reframe the idea before committing. Six forcing questions, three implementation approaches, real effort estimates.

ii.

Plan

/plan-ceo-review/plan-eng-review

Scope, then architecture. ASCII diagrams, edge cases, failure modes. The 10-star product hiding in the request.

iii.

Design

/design-consultation/design-review

AI slop gets caught on the way in. Pre-build audit, real design system, post-build verification.

iv.

Build

claude

Code gets written. Files get changed. Commits get made. The boring middle that actually ships.

v.

Review

/review/codex/investigate

Find bugs CI would pass. Second opinion from a different model. Never fix without understanding.

vi.

Test

/qa/browse/benchmark

Real browser. Real clicks. Real screenshots. Performance regressions caught before they ship.

vii.

Ship

/ship/land-and-deploy/canary

Sync, test, coverage, PR. Merge, deploy, verify. Monitor for regressions after the victory lap.

viii.

Reflect

/retro

Every week, a look back. What shipped, what didn't, what surprised us. Velocity stays honest.

Partnership

We build with builders. Not for them.

Annex Tech doesn't hire. We partner. You bring one thing you're exceptional at — design, infrastructure, a specific domain, a point of view. We bring the workflow, the clients, and the distribution.

Shared work. Shared upside. No quarterly reviews. No cap tables with outside investors. Just two or three people making something together and splitting what it earns.

Who

Not a job. Not a fund.

  • i.You ship more than you plan.
  • ii.You're better at something than we are.
  • iii.You don't need funding to start.
  • iv.You want a partner, not a boss.
The Bar

Show us something you built.

Not a portfolio. Not a pitch deck. One thing you shipped using an AI workflow — gstack, Claude Code, Cursor, any of it. Link it. Tell us what surprised you about the process. That's the signal.