Software for the psychedelic industry.
elliodelics is a software engineering studio for clinics, retreats, researchers, and the companies building around them. Somebody has to stay grounded.
The vocabulary we speak, one engineering term paired with one field term.
- code review and peer review
- data privacy and harm reduction
- audit trails and altered states
- observability and introspection
- GDPR and informed consent
- feature flags and titration
- role-based access and set & setting
- documentation and trip reports
- 3rd-party integrations and integration circles
- SOC 2 security and trip sitting
- incident response and challenging experiences
- compliance and ceremony
- zero-downtime deploys and non-ordinary states
- data pipelines and dosing protocols
Set, setting, and schema.
Most software shops won’t touch this industry because the compliance surface scares them off, and the ones that will tend not to understand it. They’ll ship you a beautiful booking flow that violates your own protocol in three places. An AI will ship it even faster and understand even less.
Getting this right takes years in both worlds, the engineering and the field. You shouldn’t have to explain your protocols to the person building the software that runs them. The stakes are different here too. A leaked customer list means a bad week for a SaaS company, but for a clinic or a retreat it means people’s medical and legal exposure. That’s why privacy gets built in from the start, not bolted on at the end.
What we build
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Product engineering
From prototype to production. Platforms, APIs, and the unglamorous plumbing that keeps them standing. Fifteen years of building, most of them leading engineering organizations.
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Privacy, security & compliance
Data protection as architecture, not paperwork. GDPR, data minimization, encryption, retention, and audit trails, all built in from the start. Years inside regulated industries, for a field where confidentiality is an ethic and not a checkbox.
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Research & data infrastructure
Aggregation pipelines, search, and plain-language access to messy scientific literature. The systems behind Mindscape Collective’s massive open library.
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Fractional engineering leadership
A director of engineering when you need one, without the full-time hire. Hiring, architecture, process, and technical roadmaps that tell you the truth.
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Field reports
no anonymized case studies · all of this is public record
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founder & executive director
An open library of the world’s psychedelic and consciousness research, aggregating a massive collection of peer-reviewed articles from a dozen sources and summarizing them in plain language, free to everyone. No paywall, no gatekeeping.
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infrastructure & migrations
Migrating the psychedelic media nonprofit’s publishing platform, hosting, and video pipeline to open-source, encrypted infrastructure. Privacy engineering for independent journalism in a sensitive field.
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engineering partner
Websites, systems, and GDPR-compliant intake forms for the German foundation’s work on ethical, evidence-backed psychedelic retreats, including Psychedelia Retreats.
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director of engineering
Grew the engineering department to 60 engineers across 10 teams through funding rounds and acquisitions, in cannabis dispensary software where security, data privacy, and compliance are the product.
Who runs elliodelics
elliodelics is run by Mike Elliottopens in new tab, who spent fifteen years building products and leading engineering organizations and now studies psychedelics and consciousness at the graduate level.
Former Director of Engineering at Dutchie and ezCater. Founder of Mindscape Collective. MA candidate in Psychedelics & Consciousness Studies at the University of Ottawa. He’s the person your CTO wants in the room, and the one your facilitators don’t mind having there.
fluent in changelogs and trip reports
Tell us what you’re building.
goes straight to Mike · no funnel, no sales team
a few engagements a year · replies typically within a few days