About Us

Plank & Pattern is built by a group of woodwork-loving techies, with love, on Bainbridge Island.

Most of what we've spent our careers making disappears the moment we stop looking at it: a pull request merges, a deck gets presented once and forgotten, a spreadsheet reconciles itself into next quarter's spreadsheet. None of it has weight. None of it has grain. None of it makes a good doorstop.

There is a particular kind of relief in sanding a tabletop after a day spent shipping software that will be rewritten before the finish cures. The wood does not care about your roadmap. It will not be deprecated. When you are finished, it simply sits there, holding your coffee, outliving the laptop you designed it on.

We think a lot of people who spend their days moving abstractions around would feel the same relief, if they had a precise enough way to get from an idea to something they could actually stand in a shop and build. That is most of what this company actually is: a very good excuse to go make something real.