Software for the psychedelic industry.
Elliodelics is a software engineering studio for clinics, retreats, researchers, and the companies building around them. Somebody has to stay grounded.
The vocabulary we speak, paired — one engineering term, one field term: code review and peer review, data minimization and harm reduction, audit trails and altered states, GDPR and informed consent, Postgres and psilocybin research, role-based access and set & setting, encryption at rest and integration circles, zero-downtime deploys and non-ordinary states, data pipelines and dosing protocols.
Your engineers shouldn’t need a glossary.
Most software shops won’t touch the psychedelic industry — the compliance surface scares them off. The ones that will tend not to understand it: they’ll ship you a beautiful booking flow that violates your own protocol in three places.
Elliodelics is fluent in both worlds: fifteen years leading engineering teams on one side, graduate work in psychedelics and consciousness studies on the other. You should never have to translate your work for the people building its infrastructure.
And the stakes here are different. A leaked customer list is a bad week for a SaaS company; for a clinic or a retreat it’s people’s medical and legal exposure. Privacy gets designed in at the first schema, not bolted on before an audit.
What we build
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Product engineering
From prototype to production: platforms, APIs, and the unglamorous plumbing that keeps them standing. Fifteen years of shipping — most of them leading the teams that ship.
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Privacy, security & compliance
Data protection as architecture, not paperwork: GDPR compliance, data minimization, encryption in transit and at rest, retention policies, and audit trails designed in from the first schema. Grounded in years of engineering inside regulated industries, cannabis included — and in a field where confidentiality is an ethic, not a checkbox.
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Research & data infrastructure
Aggregation pipelines, search, and plain-language access to messy scientific literature. The systems behind Mindscape Collective’s open library of 25,000+ studies.
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Fractional engineering leadership
A director of engineering when you need one, without the full-time hire. Hiring, architecture, process, and technical roadmaps that tell you the truth.
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Field reports
no anonymized case studies — all of this is public record
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Mindscape Collective (opens in new tab)
founder & executive director
An open library of the world’s psychedelic and consciousness research — 25,000+ peer-reviewed articles aggregated from a dozen sources, summarized in plain language, free to everyone. No paywall, no gatekeeping.
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Psymposia
infrastructure
Moving the psychedelic media nonprofit’s tech stack to open-source, encrypted infrastructure. Privacy engineering for independent journalism in a sensitive field.
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Psychedelia-Stiftung (opens in new tab)
engineering partner
Websites and systems for the German foundation’s work on ethical, evidence-backed psychedelic retreats — Psychedelia Retreats among them.
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Dutchie (opens in new tab)
director of engineering
Grew the engineering department to 60 engineers across 10 teams, through funding rounds and acquisitions — cannabis dispensary software, where compliance is the product.
Who runs Elliodelics
Elliodelics is Mike Elliott — fifteen years building products and leading engineering organizations, now studying psychedelics and consciousness at the graduate level.
Former Director of Engineering at Dutchie and ezCater. Founder of Mindscape Collective. MA candidate in Psychedelics & Consciousness Studies at the University of Ottawa. He’s the person your CTO wants in the room, and the one your facilitators don’t mind having there.
elliott ✺ delics — the name was sitting right there