About
OpenRed didn't start as a business idea. It started as a problem that nothing on the market could solve — so we built the solution ourselves, ran it in production, and then realized who needed it most.
Atlanta roots
OpenRed is built and run from the Atlanta area. We work with businesses anywhere, but our home market is the community we know: the advisory firms, brokerages, agencies, restaurants, and family businesses that keep this region running — companies with 10 to 100 people, real revenue, and far too much of their week spent on work a machine should be doing.
The origin
In early 2026, our founder set out to automate the market-intelligence operation at Bimini Technologies, an Atlanta financial technology company: gather financial data from dozens of widely scattered sources, analyze it, and deliver it on schedules that shift from source to source — every week, every month, with nobody babysitting it.
He tried what the market offered. Open-source agent frameworks turned out brittle, with no real orchestration. "Self-learning" automation tools needed hand-holding at every step. The major AI vendors' agent services provided capable raw agents — but no orchestration, no evaluation loop, no scheduling, no self-healing, and per-run costs that grew astronomical at production volume. Building on top of them meant hundreds of hours of custom development anyway.
So he built the missing piece from scratch: an agentic orchestration layer where specialized agents do the work — workers gather, analysts apply the business's own rules, validators check quality — while the orchestrator evaluates every step's actual output, heals failures automatically, and runs the whole operation in the cloud under the owner's own accounts and existing AI subscription. That platform became OpenRed. It has run the Bimini data operation in production daily ever since — the full story, with numbers, is in our case studies.
The mission
Large companies buy custom automation all the time — they have the budgets and the engineering staff to absorb it. The businesses that need automation most are the ones that could never justify it: 10-to-100-person companies where the owner's best people spend a third of their week retyping invoices, preparing meeting packets, and copying data between programs, and where hiring a developer to fix it costs more than the problem.
OpenRed changes that math. Because the platform already exists — proven in production, not built fresh per client — automating a small business's workflow is configuration on a working engine, not a six-month software project. That is what lets us offer a free engineering assessment, a $250 roadmap, and fixed prices a small business can actually plan around. The work that was only economical for enterprises is now economical at 10 employees, and we think the businesses that run on tight teams and real cash flow deserve it most.
Founder and lead engineer. Full-stack engineer with more than two decades of experience building trading platforms and market data systems. Michael created the OpenRed platform, runs it in production, and leads the engineering on every client build — when you book the assessment call, he is the kind of engineer you talk to, not a sales team.
A free 30-minute call with an engineer is where every engagement starts.