tangent.build
A working catalogue of ventures, client builds, and platforms shipped by Mike Pavone — operator, fabricator, and software builder. Fourteen years of making real things; now equally at home in code. Some pieces are live; others are in motion or paused. Both are listed here, transparently.
Ventures
Businesses I own and operate. Each one is a working answer to a question about what's worth making.
Assembyl 3D↗
Fourteen years of precision manufacturing for entertainment, fashion, industrial, and humanitarian clients. Founded as 3D Factory LLC in 2012; production has shipped for Sony, Warner Bros., NASCAR, NY Mets, Pat McGrath Labs, Solar Impulse, and others.
2DMikeP↗
Same-day wide-format pigment printing — posters, cards, flyers, and short-run drops at a fraction of chain-shop pricing. Run on an Epson ET-16550UT.
3DMikeP↗
Print-farm optimization consulting. Audits, automation systems, and ROI-driven turnarounds for shops running fleets of 3D printers — twelve years of operating experience packaged as a service.
Tangible Echo↗
Memory, made physical. A boutique studio that turns relationships and stories into one-of-a-kind 3D-printed collectibles — bespoke commissions and small-group experiences.
Reprogramming Reality↗
An interactive book under the 2DMikeP imprint — fifteen paradoxes that reveal the hidden programming of the mind. Editorial layout, Bauhaus geometry, deployed on Netlify.
Client Work
Sites and applications shipped end-to-end for paying clients across industries — strategy, design, and engineering under one roof.
Titan Holdings Partners↗
Marketing site for a Boca Raton private capital firm — designed and shipped end-to-end. Editorial typography, photography direction, and engineering, with a measured, institutional tone.
Titan Portal
Private payment-tracking and operations dashboard for the Titan team. Go backend, packaged with Docker and served by Caddy on a Vultr VPS. Behind a login gate.
Mon Amour NYC↗
Site for a strategic consulting firm working with cultural, civic, and mission-driven organizations across New York City. Editorial dark theme, gold accent, deployed on Vercel.
Platforms & Systems
Software systems and internal tools — the deeper-stack work behind the operating businesses.
PrintMatrix↗
Multi-tenant 3D print farm management SaaS. T3 Stack — Next.js, tRPC, Prisma, NextAuth — paired with a Rust agent for printer connectivity, MMU/AMS material tracking, and QR-based spool management. Currently paused.
Dossier : Manifest
Internal intelligence platform aggregating fourteen years of business archive — 230+ projects, 320+ clients, plus press, assets, and operational records — into a searchable Next.js application.
Case Studies
How a few of these projects actually work — long-scroll walkthroughs of intake, workflow, data, and the screens behind the front door.
2DMikeP — How it works↗
An editorial walkthrough of the same-day print shop — order intake, the live job ticker, paper stock and finishing options, pricing posture, and the run-out to shipping. Long-scroll, public.
Capital Manager — How it works↗
Anonymized walkthrough of a private-capital operations platform — onboarding intake, compliance release, investor portal preview, document watermarking, and the audit trail behind every action.
DealHound — How it works↗
Walkthrough of an off-market property pipeline — nightly PLUTO sweep across NYC, eight motivated-owner signals, modeled ARV and spread, and the five-column board that drives the closer's day.