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. CodePress is the productized version of those eight years.

CodePress
Built together
8 years
Shipped products
20+
Q5 revenue
$12m+
Patrick Lu

Patrick Lu

CEO
Former Apple ML engineer (recommendation systems). Early Ethereum infra builder (pre-Etherscan).
UC Berkeley CSEx Apple ML EngineerEarly Ethereum Infra
Craig Lu

Craig Lu

Product / Engineering
Ex-Amazon engineer. 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

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