04 — About

Three friends. One mission. Built for the long haul.

We've known each other for years. Now we're partners — bringing three different skill stacks together so we can be the technology team a small business actually wants on speed dial. Working out of The Carolinas, available remote across the US. No outsourcing. No middle managers. Just three people who care.

— Our story

Why we started VolkemTech.

Every small business owner we know has the same complaint about tech: it's expensive, it's fragmented, and the people you hire disappear the second something breaks.

We're three friends working out of The Carolinas — and we started VolkemTech because we kept watching the same thing happen to the businesses around us. Family members, neighbors, people we'd worked with in past careers. They'd hire someone to build a website, get ghosted, end up with something that half-worked, and decide tech just wasn't for them.

We don't think that's how it should go. The technology side of a business should feel like it's handled — not like one more thing on the owner's plate. So we built a company designed to handle it, starting with the businesses right here in our community.

We work local where we can — in-person discovery calls, on-site visits, real handshakes — and remote across the US for clients further afield. We pick up the phone. We return emails. We stay long after launch. That's the whole pitch.

— The team

Meet the three of us.

When you hire VolkemTech, you get all three of us. No outsourcing to overseas contractors. No bait-and-switch with junior staff. One of these three is on every project, every retainer, every time.

Mason Massingale 01

Founder & Builder

Mason Massingale

Mason is a builder who's spent years learning how businesses really work — leading teams in management and supervision before turning that experience toward designing the systems and tools that help small businesses run smarter. He's structured, solutions-oriented, and unusually patient with the unglamorous work of getting things right the first time. He believes technology should empower the people behind a business, not replace them. Outside of work, you'll find him at MMA training, on a hiking trail, or backpacking somewhere remote.

Chance Krigbaum 02

Founder & Strategist

Chance Krigbaum

Chance is a husband and father whose career has spanned law enforcement, aviation as a flight instructor and charter pilot, and high-performance sales. That mix shows up in his work: disciplined, calm under pressure, grounded in real-world experience, with a people-first mindset that anchors every client conversation. Outside of work, he trains Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and unwinds with his family, two dogs, a stack of books, and the occasional movie marathon.

Elijah Howard 03

Founder & Designer

Elijah Howard

Elijah is a family-oriented creative with a deep appreciation for the role small businesses play in shaping the communities around them. A black belt in Taekwondo, he brings discipline, focus, and determination to everything he touches — paired with a designer's eye for the details that elevate good work into something memorable. Rooted in small-town values, he believes local businesses are the backbone of thriving communities, and that the work we do should reflect and serve them.

— What we believe

Five non-negotiables.

Every project we take on goes through the same filter. If we can't honor these in the work, we don't take the work.

01

Plain English, always.

You should never have to ask us what something means. If we say it, you should understand it. Tech jargon is a wall between client and agency — we tear it down on day one.

02

Fixed price, fixed timeline.

We don't bill by the hour for project work. We scope it, price it, and ship it. If we go over, that's on us. You get the same number on every invoice.

03

You own everything we build.

The site, the code, the accounts, the SOPs, the automations. Yours. We don't trap clients in proprietary systems they can't leave.

04

Stay long after launch.

The agency model that ghosts you the day after launch is broken. Every build comes with 30 days of post-launch support by default — and an optional retainer if you want us around for the long run.

05

Local where we can be, remote where it counts.

Carolinas client? We'll come to you — discovery calls in your shop, on-site walkthroughs, real handshakes. Out-of-state? Our remote workflow is just as tight. The deliverable is the same; only the kickoff format changes.

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