We Moved. It Took About a Day.

We weren’t looking for a new office. We had been settled comfortably in our space for years, and comfort is usually enough to keep a small company exactly where it is.

Then, a neighbor in our building let us know they were relocating, and the space they were leaving behind was better than anything we would have thought to go looking for. Contemporary layout, glass everywhere, network infrastructure already run, AV already installed in the rooms that needed it. Standing desks, high-grade furniture, a real conference room with a real door. We walked through it once and understood that some opportunities don’t sit still and wait to be considered.

The move

The space became available on July 1st.

That date came with complications. The Fourth of July weekend was four days out, which meant everyone we might have called for help was already halfway out of town. Travis was flying to Greece with his family on the 6th, on a trip planned the better part of a year in advance and not moving for anybody, least of all a filing cabinet. And a company with scanning systems, a service bureau, a network, and thirty-plus years of accumulated everything does not relocate itself over a long weekend.

So, we had a day. One day, to move all of it.

We held our ‘all-hands’ that morning as scheduled, which in hindsight was a formality — there was exactly one item on the agenda. The meeting ended, and the entire company simply went. Machines shut down mid-sentence. Workstations came apart. Monitors under both arms, cables draped over shoulders, keyboards balanced on top of towers; everyone moving in the same direction at once like a very determined and slightly unhinged parade. Travis disappeared into the network closet. Our contractor was pulling Ethernet in the new space before the old space was even empty. For several hours the building contained nothing but purposeful chaos and an enormous number of loose cables.

The network came back online in about an hour. Everything else was running by that afternoon.

There were weeks of unglamorous work still ahead — access control, alarms, the hundred small systems you only notice when they stop — but the business never paused, and no customer ever knew a thing had happened.

Travis made his flight.

What the new space actually changes

The obvious wins are the boring ones. We finally have a conference room with a door, which matters more than it sounds like it should: in our old space everything happened in one open room, so every meeting was technically an all-hands whether we intended it or not. We also have considerably more workspaces than people, with room to roughly double the team as we grow.

But the change that matters most to our customers is one that doesn’t photograph well. Our lab is now fully separated from our office.

That sounds like a floor plan detail. It isn’t. It means we can host you in a proper conference room, walk through your parts with you, and sit down and work a problem out together — while sensitive work continues, undisturbed, in a space that is genuinely isolated. It means the boundary of our secure environment is clean and defensible rather than a series of careful compromises. We are actively working toward CMMC Level 2 certification with a consultant engaged, and a facility that draws that line clearly makes the whole process a far more straightforward one.

If you have ever wanted to visit us and see how this work actually gets done, this is a good time to ask.

What’s next: the lab

Separating the lab was the first step. Building it out for the volume we’re seeing is the next one.

Our lab has produced excellent work for decades in a space designed to handle one job at a time. We are rebuilding it to handle several at once: dedicated delamination capacity, multiple parallel workstations, and air handling designed for this footprint rather than inherited from the last one. When it’s complete, we expect to more than double our delamination throughput.

That work is underway now, and we’ll have more to share as it comes together.

One last thing

Our old office was full of paintings — large, modern, mixed-media work by Jessica Loving, who happens to be Travis’ sister and who has long-produced more art than she has walls to hang it on. A problem we have been delighted to help solve for years.

Nobody had any idea what would happen to any of it. New geometry, new proportions, a completely different color palette, and no particular reason to expect a single piece would land.

Every one of them found a wall. The colors are right. Walking through it now, it is difficult not to feel that the space had been waiting for us.

A Note from Travis

None of this was planned. We were not looking for a new space, and the opportunity arrived entirely on its own schedule — a few months into a new chapter for this company, and precisely when we could make use of it.

I have come to trust that things unfold this way more often than we give them credit for, and usually more beautifully than I could have imagined. This one arrived with a strange completeness to it: room to grow the team, a lab that can finally stand on its own, a place where we can host you properly while the work continues undisturbed, and a genuinely beautiful space in which to do all of it.

I’m grateful for it, and grateful to the people here who turned twenty-four hours into a company that never missed a beat.

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