About
A software architect who's spent years building the kinds of products he now helps other founders build.
Beau Button is a software architect and entrepreneur based in Austin, Texas. As co-founder, President, and CTO of Atlas Reality and Tesoro XP, he has spent years designing and scaling venture-backed products — from ATLAS:EARTH, a location-based game where players buy virtual real estate mapped to the real world, to a card-linked rewards platform for the gaming economy.
Through Beau Button, L.L.C., he brings that same senior technical judgment to a small number of founders and teams — helping them make the architecture, AI, and scaling decisions that are hard and expensive to reverse later. The work is grounded in shipping real products to real users, not slideware.
He writes regularly about systems design, AI, and the craft of building — a sample of which is below.
In his own words
Writing & talks
A few pieces on AI, systems, and building — plus a conversation on gaming and technology.