Stratamize wasn't founded by someone looking for a market. It was founded by an operator
who needed payments and software that didn't exist yet — and decided to build them properly.
The founder has spent more than ten years running retail in the counterculture and vape
industry, including the flagship store Vapor Fog in Newnan, Georgia. That's a decade
of living inside age-restricted sales, real card-present payments, inventory that has to
reconcile, and customers who expect a counter to move fast. The compliance and underwriting
pressures other providers treat as edge cases are this company's daily reality.
For the last four-plus years, that experience has gone into building the Stratamize platform —
the payment surface, an Android kiosk app, a multi-tenant cloud dashboard, and an integrated
age-verification flow — now deployed and operating on live TCN K518 vending machines. The
same hands that run the store specified, built, and now operate the software.
That's the difference an underwriter and an operator both care about: this is not a
reseller or a flipper assembling a stack. It's a builder shipping payments and software for
businesses they already run, and standing behind every claim on this page.
- Retail operations
- 10+ years running age-restricted retail; flagship Vapor Fog, Newnan, Georgia.
- Platform build
- 4+ years building the platform — payments, kiosk app, cloud dashboard, age-gate.
- Deployment
- Live and operating on TCN K518 hardware — real machines, real transactions.
- Company
- Stratamize LLC — a US-based software company, headquartered in Newnan, GA.