Data pipelines and marketing analytics for teams that need to know what's working.
Position5 is a software studio and data engineering consultancy. We ship our own products (Arcana, QuinnFAQ, Sigil) and take on a limited number of client engagements, currently running a focused Marketing Analytics Pipeline Sprint for Seed-to-Series A SaaS and growing DTC brands.
What we build
Products and pipelines built to solve real problems across licensing, content automation, data engineering, and marketing analytics.
Private Nova-Core
A complete backend platform for license generation, subscription billing, and digital product distribution. Currently powering Position5's product line.
Live QuinnFAQ
AI-powered WordPress plugin that reads your site and generates SEO-optimized FAQ pages with structured data. About 60 seconds, start to finish.
Live Arcana
Real-time trading data ingestion pipeline. Streams and stores exchange data from the Coinbase API with production-grade fault tolerance.
Live Sigil
High-speed data processing engine for iterating through hundreds of trading strategies. Born from Arcana for independent stability and scale.
Live OpenTN
Non-partisan transparency platform for Tennessee campaign finance data. Follow the money, know your reps.
Every project starts with a real problem
Every Position5 product exists because someone needed it. The same engineering rigor that processes millions of trades now helps businesses make sense of their data, from marketing analytics to civic transparency.
Solve real problems
Every product comes from hands-on experience across different industries and domains.
Production-grade engineering
Battle-tested software with real analytics, real payments, and real users.
Open where it matters
Open-source projects that showcase real engineering, not toy demos.
Data that drives decisions
Turning raw data into actionable insights for our products and our clients.
From the blog
Engineering notes, product updates, data engineering deep dives, and lessons from building real systems.
Why I Started Helping SaaS Teams Fix Their Marketing Data
After building trading data pipelines that process millions of trades, I realized the same engineering solves a problem most SaaS founders deal with every day: figuring out which marketing dollars actually work.
Position5 Is Now a Data Engineering Consultancy
Position5 is growing from a software studio into data engineering consulting. Here's why, what it means for the products, and what's next.
Sigil: Iterating on Speed and Scale
How I optimized Sigil's data processing pipeline to handle hundreds of trading strategies efficiently, and what 'fast enough' actually means for iteration speed.