Why us
Eight years running Q5, a software studio in Berkeley. We’ve shipped 20+ production products across telecom, finance, e-commerce, education, real estate, and consumer — including Noble Mobile (with Andrew Yang) and ResearchHub (with Brian Armstrong). CodePress is the productized version of those eight years.
Built together
8 years
Shipped products
20+
Q5 revenue
$12m+

Patrick Lu
CEO
Former Apple ML engineer (recommendation systems). Early Ethereum infra builder (pre-Etherscan). Technical architect of ResearchHub (Brian Armstrong).
UC Berkeley CSFormer YC FounderEx Apple ML EngineerEarly Ethereum Infra

Craig Lu
Product / Engineering
Built agent coordination systems enabling multi-agent + human workflows. Led complex builds across 20+ companies.
UF CSEx Amazon Engineer20+ shipped products with Q5

Joseph Pereira
Engineering
Ex-Google (worked on WebAssembly). Sold prior company (SmileyGo). Built early self-serve MCP layer for agent tooling.
UC Berkeley CSEx Google EngineerExited SmileyGo
The moat
Every business has the same thirty painful internal workflows — just dressed up differently. We’ve built each by hand a dozen times across more shapes of company than any model vendor or developer-tool startup ever will.
Industries we’ve shipped into
TelecomFinanceE-commerceReal estateEducationHealthcareWeb3Civic techConsumerGaming