T3ch5 Services, LLC is an Andy Lauppe-led technology studio based in West Michigan. The work combines three decades of infrastructure and communications experience with modern AI-assisted application development.
The value is not access to a particular model, cloud, or framework. It is the ability to understand the whole operating environment—and stay involved as the decision becomes a working system.
A Career Built Across the Stack
1996 — The foundations
Andy began in computing hardware and technical support, developing the diagnostic discipline that still shapes the work: understand the system before changing it.
2003–2007 — Networks, servers, and enterprise operations
Network administration, workstation deployment, data-validation development, Windows Server, and Active Directory work expanded the view from individual machines to connected business environments.
2008–2016 — Open systems and telecommunications
Linux, Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, VoIP, and communications infrastructure became a long-running specialty—systems where reliability, interoperability, and practical troubleshooting matter.
2015 — T3ch5 Services
Andy founded T3ch5 to provide direct, experienced technology guidance to organizations that needed more than a product reseller or temporary pair of hands.
2016 — Operating experience
Launching and operating a Michigan telecommunications provider added another perspective: owning services, supporting customers, responding to failures, and living with technical decisions after launch.
2023 onward — AI systems and AppFoundry
The same infrastructure and integration discipline now informs AI-enabled applications, agent workflows, and AppFoundry—the collaborative build environment at the center of T3ch5.
How T3ch5 Works
Begin with the operating reality
Understand the people, workflow, systems, constraints, and business value before proposing an architecture.
Build on what still works
Existing investments often contain important logic and operating knowledge. Integration or a focused interface may be more valuable than replacement.
Put working software in the conversation
A realistic prototype gives operators and leaders something concrete to evaluate. It exposes assumptions earlier than a long specification can.
Keep responsibility visible
Permissions, review, monitoring, documentation, maintenance, and ownership are part of the build—not tasks left for an unnamed future team.
Use AI with purpose
AI earns a place when it improves a specific job inside a controlled workflow. It is not the strategy by itself.
Why “T3ch5”
Technician Fifth Grade was a World War II Army rank for skilled technical specialists: people valued because they understood how equipment worked and could keep it working in the field.
That idea still fits. T3ch5 operates close to the system, close to the people using it, and close to the consequences of the technical decision.
Working Range
Infrastructure, networks, Linux, open-source systems, telecommunications, cloud platforms, APIs, PostgreSQL, Python, AI models, agent frameworks, application architecture, and production operations.
The range matters because custom applications rarely live alone. They depend on identity, connectivity, data, vendors, old systems, support, and the people responsible for the work.