Lance Wright
CEO, Founder, Systems Architect
“I don’t chase trends. I rewrite the fundamentals.”
Most people will start by telling you their credentials.
I’ll start by telling you my obsession.
It began with an old government auction. I was a kid — too young to drive — begging a friend’s brother to take me across town so I could buy my first server. I didn’t know what I was going to do with it. I just knew I had to have it.
From there, it never stopped.
By my early teens, I was shadowing network engineers for free — not to get ahead, not for extra credit — just to understand. I needed to see how systems connected. How infrastructure breathed. I wasn’t after money. I was after truth.
I got my dream IT job before I ever finished my degree. Enterprise networks. Cisco environments. High-pressure infrastructure. I truly thought the path of networking was my future.
Then I touched code.
And everything changed.
What started as a few internal tools quickly became an obsession. I found myself rewriting systems I wasn’t asked to touch. Questioning architecture decisions no one else was questioning. Studying C# at night. Obsessing over patterns, performance, and philosophy.
And then I broke everything.
My first real project — software for vocational services — fell apart. The architecture was wrong. The scope was misunderstood. I didn’t listen well enough. The entire system had to be thrown away.
It was devastating.
But it was also the best thing that could’ve happened to me.
Because in that moment, I realized the problem wasn’t that I didn’t code well enough — it was that the way we write code itself was broken. I realized that truly listening didn't just mean quietly sitting down and hearing what someone has to say. It's understanding both what they're saying, but also fully grasping their reality, their truth, their daily obstacles. This was the birth of Sayou, through the simple truth of listening.
I didn’t want to just fix features. I wanted to fix fundamentals.
I didn’t want to patch workflows. I wanted to rebuild foundations.
That failure sparked a fire that has never gone out.
Since then, I not only picked back up the challenge of Vocational Services, but challenged the very idea of what an integrated case management platform should look like. I’ve helped architect multi-million-dollar government platforms, engineered large-scale AI infrastructures, and built enterprise integration systems for Fortune 500 companies. But the real work?
That happened after hours.
I built protocols no one asked for — yet. Rewrote the rules of data relations. Reimagined what software could be if it stopped fighting itself.
I built open-source projects that challenged our understanding of data mappings — and created protocols that solved not just company problems, but industry-wide ones.
But none of this was for status. I didn’t build it to make a name.
I built it because I couldn’t not.
I’ve turned down some incredible offers. I’ve walked away from comfort and high salaries. Not because I’m reckless — but because I'm obsessed. Obsessed with truth. Obsessed with architecture. Obsessed with a vision that means more to me than all the money in the world.
Sayou is the result of that obsession.
It’s not a brand. It’s a challenge.
To rethink what’s possible.
To build what others believe can’t be built.
To solve the unsolvable.
So if you’re wondering who I am…
I’m not here to blend in.
I’m here to rebuild how we listen and the very fundamentals of what listening truly means.
