What we do
Tapiki is a senior technology practice in Hawaiʻi, founded in 2002. We design, build, and manage the software institutions depend on, in three ways. Engagements run from a four-week assessment to multi-year partnerships.
Technology Partnership
Senior technology leadership on retainer, for organizations without a CTO or leaders who want a peer. Brian works with your executive team as its technology leader. He sets technical direction, holds vendors to their contracts, and reports to your board in plain language.
Brian also does the hands-on technical work that matters most, such as architecture and security reviews.
Examples include Mission Management Company, where Brian is CTO
Platforms & Applications
Custom platforms, mobile apps, and AI-integrated systems, from architecture through production. SaaS platforms, internal tools, field data apps, and on-device machine learning, built around your organization’s workflows and data. Mobile apps ship on iPhone, iPad, and Android, with cross-platform frameworks such as Flutter where one codebase should serve both.
We add AI where it does a specific job, such as reading documents or recognizing images, and test it like any other part of the system.
Examples include Mission Management Company, iFirst Medical, Ecobot, StormWatch
Web & Digital Presence
We design and build custom websites, audit them against WCAG 2.2 AA, and keep them current with hosting, security updates, and content changes long after launch.
Many of our web relationships are in their second decade. Shinnyo Lantern Floating Hawaiʻi has been with us since 2013.
Examples include Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Central Pacific Bank, Charles Schwab, Alexander & Baldwin, Hawaii Department of Transportation
Where engagements begin
A new build
You know what you need and don’t have it yet. We scope and build it, and we can run it after launch if you need us to.
A modernization
You have systems that work but hold you back, such as an aging website, a member-facing app that lags behind what members expect, a platform nobody fully owns. We modernize in phases so your staff can keep working.
A rescue
A project stalled, a vendor didn’t work out, or a legacy system needs a new owner. We review what exists, tell you plainly what is worth keeping, and take it to production.
How the practice works
Brian leads the technical work on every engagement and stays hands-on in the code. Design comes from Hawaiʻi agencies, led by iQ 360, and development capacity comes from US-based partners Tapiki has worked with for nearly 20 years, led by TechRiver.
Clients own their code and accounts from day one, on standard, documented stacks. WCAG 2.2 AA is the accessibility baseline for everything we build.