Matthew Frederico
Fifteen-plus years of building the machinery under the button. Matt was co-founder and CTO of a platform that grew from $100 million to $1.2 billion in revenue in under two years, while he built the engineering underneath it. He ran a team of nine engineers at a high-volume ecommerce and fulfillment business, and was the technical lead who unified Salesforce, Marketing Cloud and SAP data across four countries for a global tools maker. He built ShipCannon and CannonWMS, a warehouse system past 31 million packages, DealerYes for dealer networks, and Tiknix, which he uses daily on the client projects that pay for it. He open-sourced FastMCPHP and a MariaDB-to-LLM bridge, writes Laravel, Node and Python, and runs AI agents in production.
Plus a bench of engineers, a logistics co-founder with 20 years in warehouses, and a rotating cast of AI agents who do the grunt work and file no complaints.
About the name.
Somewhere in every business there's a task that should be one click and is instead eleven, two of which involve a person named Diane and a shared spreadsheet. We make it one click. The eleven steps still happen. They just happen underneath, quietly, where nobody has to think about them. Click. Simple.
Carrier APIs, tax rules, dealer pricing tiers, a warehouse that is somehow always out of one SKU. We like that part. We read ERP documentation for fun. We're working on it.
NeoSaaS, or: a suit that fits you.
We started ClickSimple because we were tired of watching good businesses contort themselves to fit software built for somebody else. So we build the reverse: software cut for one business, owned by it, hosted and patched by us like SaaS would be. We call it NeoSaaS. The full argument, Shaq and all, lives on tiknix.com/neosaas, because Tiknix is where the idea runs as code.
What we've been up to for seven years.
We built ShipCannon and CannonWMS, a cloud warehouse system that has shipped more than 31 million packages and lets a mid-size brand run a real warehouse without buying enterprise software. We built DealerYes, one ledger for manufacturers who sell through distributors and dealers. We built Tiknix, an AI app builder with its own workflow engine, where you keep the code. We've shipped Stripe billing systems, dozens of Shopify integrations, ERP middleware for luxury resale and global tool brands, and open-source plumbing for AI that stays inside your walls.
Along the way we've been the technical half of a platform that went from $100 million to over a billion in volume, run engineering teams, unified enterprise data across four countries, and stood up DevOps for payment hardware. We've made most of the mistakes already. You get the abridged version.
How we think.
- AI is a very fast intern. Brilliant, tireless, and not allowed near the credit card.
- Own your software. If you can't leave, it isn't yours. Everything we build lives in your repository.
- Boring is a feature. The best night in production is one nobody remembers.
- Say "don't build that." The most valuable sentence we sell. It's included.
- Put the price on the website. Every product we've launched has one there. Nobody should have to book a call to learn a number.