A studio that ships its own software.
Most agencies build software for other people. Most SaaS companies bet everything on one product. We do both — the only honest way to run a studio in 2026.
Guruboxz Tech is a small, independent tech studio. We design, build, and operate our own SaaS products. We also take on a deliberately small number of client builds each year — custom SaaS, modern websites, and AI agent systems for founders who want a partner, not a vendor.
The reason it works is simple: every product we own teaches us something we can use the next time a client hands us a problem. And every client project sharpens the way we ship our own work. The line between “agency” and “product company” isn't real here. It's the same craft, pointed in two directions.
Operators make better builders
When you actually run the product — handle the support tickets, ship the bug fixes, watch the analytics on a Monday morning — you build very different software than someone who hands off and walks away. Clients get that perspective on day one.
Small surface area, high craft
We'd rather ship five things that feel inevitable than fifty things that feel like AI slop. No template aesthetic, no glass-card gradient hero, no purple-on-purple. Real typography. Real layout. Software that respects the people using it.
Modern stack, no nonsense
We build on the tools we'd choose if it were our own money — because for half our portfolio, it is. Production-grade frameworks, sane defaults, automation everywhere it earns its keep.
AI as a multiplier, not a gimmick
We've shipped real agent systems — prospecting pipelines, content automation, multi-step workflows that run nightly. We know where AI saves a week of work and where it quietly creates a month of cleanup. We use it carefully and tell the truth about it.
Our products
We own and operate a growing portfolio of SaaS products. Each solves a problem we cared enough about to build for ourselves first, then turned into something other people could use.
The flagship is Waxhaw Eats, a hyperlocal restaurant discovery and ordering platform serving Waxhaw, North Carolina. We started it because the town deserved better than a national app taking 30% of every order. It's grown into a proving ground for the diner-acquisition, restaurant-onboarding, and agent-automation playbooks we now use across the rest of our work.
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When we take on client work, it's because we believe we can do it better than anyone else in the room. Three things we build:
- Custom SaaS
- Multi-tenant web apps, dashboards, internal tools. Built to your spec, hosted on your terms, with a clean handoff or ongoing support — your call.
- Modern websites
- Marketing sites, product sites, and portals built to the standard of Vercel, Linear, and Stripe. Real design, real performance, no agency template gloss.
- AI agents + automation
- Outreach pipelines, content automation, lead-scoring systems, and the n8n / Claude workflows that quietly run a business while you sleep.
Every project runs through our client portal — a dedicated workspace where you watch the build happen in real time, review every milestone on video, approve work asynchronously, and keep every conversation in one place. No Slack threads going stale. No “let me find that email.”
We host what we build, on infrastructure we own, with a clean path to migrate it to your own accounts whenever you're ready. You're never locked in. That's the deal.
Carolinas-based. Operator-led.
Guruboxz Tech is a Carolinas-based studio. We work with founders, small teams, and operators who care about the details. The best signal of how we work is the work itself — our own products, running in the wild, paying their own bills.
TR Burns
TR founded Guruboxz Tech to build the kind of studio he'd want to hire: one that ships its own software, picks up the phone, and treats every project like it's going on the homepage.
He's the operator behind Waxhaw Eats, the studio's flagship product, and the host of Krew Huddle, a YouTube channel for independent restaurant owners. Between the two, he spends his days in the same trenches as the people he builds for — fielding support tickets, running outreach campaigns, watching analytics, and figuring out what actually moves the needle for a small business in 2026.
His bet: in an era where anyone can spin up a generic-looking app in an afternoon, the studios that win will combine real design craft, modern AI tooling, and the operator's instinct for what's worth building in the first place.
We take a limited number of client projects each quarter.
SaaS idea, a website that needs to actually look like 2026, an automation problem nobody else can untangle — we'd love to hear about it.