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. 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 started VolkemTech because we kept watching the same thing happen — to family members, to people in our community, to the businesses we'd worked with in our own 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.

We're three friends with three different skill stacks, working remote-first out of the Carolinas. 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 & Strategy

Mason Massingale

Bio coming soon. Mason leads strategy, client relationships, and makes sure no small detail gets dropped between the first call and the final handoff.

Chance Krigbaum 02

Founder & Operations

Chance Krigbaum

Bio coming soon. Chance runs operations and keeps every project on schedule — turning messy briefs into clear deliverables and clear deliverables into shipped work.

Elijah Howard 03

Founder & Build

Elijah Howard

Bio coming soon. Elijah handles the build side — websites, automations, custom software. The reason your project will still load fast and run cleanly two years from now.

— What we believe

Four 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.

Want to work with us?