Born on a family
shop floor.
I grew up in Sri Lanka and came to the States carrying the kind of dream most immigrants carry — work harder than everyone else, figure it out, build something worth building. I landed in IT and spent over a decade there. Security and identity systems for a 400-person tech company. IT integration when they acquired a $100M business. Zero Trust architecture. SOC 2. PCI. I got good at it.
Then my uncle asked me to help with the IT at his print shop. That's when I saw it up close — the software his shop depended on was expensive, limited, and charged a full year upfront. For a small family business where every dollar matters, that's not just frustrating. It's the kind of thing that keeps you up at night.
So I started building. Not a startup pitch deck — an actual tool for an actual shop. I sat with the people running production, listened to what they needed, and built it. The quoting system, the portal, the scheduling board — all of it came from real conversations, not a whiteboard in a co-working space.
InkReef is my way of giving small shops the same quality tools that Fortune 500 companies take for granted. If my uncle's shop can run on it, yours can too.
— MISHAN W., FOUNDER
The security is enterprise-grade because that's the only way I know how to build. The pricing is monthly because nobody should gamble a year's budget on a promise. And the platform keeps getting better because I'm still listening.