About Ossum
We're building tools that bridge the gap between business requirements and technical implementation through domain-driven design and AI assistance.
Our Mission
Modern software development suffers from a persistent gap between what business experts envision and what technical teams build. Requirements get lost in translation. Documentation becomes stale the moment it's written. Teams spend more time clarifying intent than solving problems.
We believe there's a better way. RIDDL enables teams to write specifications that are both human-readable and machine-processable. Business experts can understand and contribute to them. AI can use them to generate accurate implementation code. Documentation stays in sync automatically.
Our mission is to make this vision accessible to every software team, regardless of size or technical sophistication.
The Vision
"Business experts write specifications that directly inform implementation. Technical teams focus on solving hard problems, not translating requirements. Documentation is generated, not written separately. AI assistants help author and implement specifications. Systems are specified once and translated to many targets."
— Reid Spencer, Founder
Leadership
Reid Spencer
Founder & CEO
Reid is a software architect with decades of experience building large-scale distributed systems. He created RIDDL to address the communication challenges he observed repeatedly across organizations of all sizes.
Prior to founding Ossum, Reid led architecture teams at multiple technology companies, focusing on event-driven systems, domain-driven design, and reactive architectures.
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