About

Senior builders who already know the domain.

CapLock is a small, hands-on product engineering firm. The people who scope the work also make the product and engineering decisions that move it through delivery.

Domain background

Equity knowledge before the work starts.

CapLock has worked inside administrative, B2B-platform, participant-facing, and regulated-fintech systems. That shortens the domain ramp and keeps discovery focused on your workflow rather than equity basics.

Co-Founder and CEO

Ben Zavadil

Ben brings ten years in product, including seven across equity compensation. His work spans administrative, B2B-platform, and participant-facing stock-plan systems across ISOs, NSOs, RSUs, and ESPPs. He leads product definition, workflow design, and delivery decisions.

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Co-Founder and CTO

Will Farmerie

Will has built financial technology since 2008 across mobile platforms, private-equity infrastructure, payments, data pipelines, and regulated financial systems. He leads architecture and engineering with a focus on maintainable systems and explicit boundaries.

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Senior product and engineering practitioners stay directly involved. The work is not handed from a sales team to a junior delivery bench.

AI proficiency

AI is how we move faster, not what we sell.

We use AI to accelerate implementation, testing, iteration, and documentation. It does not replace architecture, code review, domain judgment, or deterministic equity logic.

Ownership

You own what we build.

CapLock does not lock clients into a platform. Delivered systems are built to be owned, maintained, transferred, and extended with a clean handoff.

No vendor lock-in
Maintainable code
Long-term control

Next step

Start with the work that needs to move.

Bring a blocked roadmap item, a workflow that has outgrown its current system, or a team that needs experienced capacity. We will tell you directly whether CapLock fits.