An owner-led studio, on purpose.
MainMTO LLC is a software studio in Burlington, Wisconsin. Small by design, senior by default, and accountable by name.
Main Street, main branch.
In software, main is the branch that actually ships — the one running in production while everything else is still a draft. It is also main(), the entry point where a program begins.
And Main Street is who we build for: manufacturers, distributors, contractors, clinics and firms with real revenue and real operational problems — not venture pitch decks.
MTO is Michael Thomas O’Reilly. His initials are on the door because his name is on the work.
At a glance
- MainMTO LLC — Wisconsin limited liability company
- Founded and led by Michael Thomas O’Reilly
- 8030 Gateway Dr, Burlington, WI 53105
- Serving southeast Wisconsin, northern Illinois and the U.S. remotely
- 100% U.S.-based senior engineering
- Fully insured — general liability, professional liability and cyber
Six things we don’t compromise on.
Senior people only
No juniors learning on your budget. If we need extra hands, they are vetted senior U.S. contractors and you are told who is working on what.
Say the hard thing
If you are asking for the wrong solution, we will say so before you pay for it — even when agreeing would be the easier way to win the work.
Estimate honestly
We would rather lose a deal to a lower bid than win it on a number we know is fiction and collect the difference in change orders.
Build for the next developer
Documented, tested, conventional code in mainstream tools. You should never be trapped with us because nobody else can read it.
Own your own accounts
Domains, cloud, repositories and credentials go in your name from day one. Vendors who hold the keys are holding you hostage.
Stay reachable
Calls get returned the same business day. Every project gets a written Friday status. Going quiet is how trust dies.
Based in Burlington. Comfortable anywhere.
We are in Burlington, Wisconsin, which puts us inside an easy drive of Racine, Kenosha, Waukesha, Milwaukee, Madison and the northern Illinois corridor. For clients in that radius, we will come sit in your building — and for a project that is replacing a real operational workflow, that is genuinely worth doing at least once.
Beyond that, we work remotely across the United States. Being in Central time means we overlap with both coasts for a full working day, which is the practical difference between a question answered this morning and a question answered tomorrow.
Why I started MainMTO.
I kept meeting good businesses stuck with bad software. Not because they were careless — because the way this industry sells makes it almost impossible to buy well. Vague estimates. Junior developers behind senior invoices. A quote that quietly doubles. A system delivered and then abandoned.
So MainMTO works the way I would want to be sold to. You get a real number before you commit. You talk to the person writing the code. You own everything we build. And when it launches, we are still here.
If that sounds like the way you would rather do this, call me directly. I answer my own phone.
Let’s scope your project.
Tell us what’s broken or what you want to build. You’ll get a straight answer about cost, timeline and whether we’re the right shop — usually within one business day.