Lifted Holdings · payments-native software studio · Tennessee

Software that moves money
built and run by one team.

Lifted Holdings is a payments-native software studio in Tennessee. We build custom software, front-end web design, and payments-focused product engineering for businesses nationwide — and we ship our own products and open-source infrastructure on top of the same rails.

Who we are

A studio with a payments obsession.

Plenty of shops can build you a website. Lifted Holdings builds the systems that run a business — and we own the hardest part: moving money safely, at scale. Payments aren't a plugin we bolt on at the end; they're the discipline the whole studio is organized around.

We work three ways, all from the same senior team. We do custom software development and API integration for companies that need something real built. We do front-end web design and development for businesses that want a fast, modern, conversion-focused site. And we do payments and fintech engineering — gateways, tokenization, merchant boarding, terminal apps, and Level 2/3 data — the work most agencies quietly outsource.

Everything we learn building for clients gets folded back into our own products — Lifted Payments, Lifted POS, and AgeVend — and into open-source infrastructure we publish for other developers: Lifted ShipKit and Lifted Sign. One accountable team, from the first line of design to the payment rail.

FOUNDERCEO
Leadership

Will Kemp (Daniel Wilson Kemp)

FOUNDER · CEO · LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER · SECURITY ANALYST

Will founded Lifted Holdings on a simple conviction: the businesses that win are the ones with the best — and best-secured — software behind them. He leads engineering and strategy across the studio, architecting the payment systems, the vending platform, and the AI voice agents.

His background is unusual in the best way — an M.S. in Public Safety Leadership (Homeland Security) and a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Mercer University, paired with deep modern software engineering. The result: security, fraud, risk, and compliance aren't an afterthought at Lifted — they're the foundation. Exactly what you want from the people moving your money.

M.S. Public Safety Leadership · Homeland Security B.S. Criminal Justice · Mercer University Security · fraud · risk · compliance
How the studio works

Client work, our own products, and open source.

Three loops that feed each other — the same payments-native core underneath all of them.

Custom software & web

Full-stack development, API and payments integration, mobile/Android (PAX), and fast, modern websites — designed, built, hosted, and maintained. We ship, then we stand behind it.

Our own products

Lifted Payments (merchant services), Lifted POS (cloud point of sale), and AgeVend (age-verified vending) — real products running real money for real businesses, on rails we built.

Open-source infrastructure

Lifted ShipKit (multi-carrier shipping + 3-D Secure payments) and Lifted Sign (self-hostable e-signature) — published for other developers. Inspect the code, self-host it, or let us run it.

Trust & security posture

Built like it's our money on the line.

Truthful about what's live and how it's secured — because we run this on real merchants every day.

Payments-grade security

End-to-end encrypted tokenization (Voltage) and 3-D Secure on card-not-present flows, supporting a SAQ-A posture for card-present acceptance. Level 2/3 data appended automatically on commercial cards.

POS-connected payments

LiftedConnect runs alongside BroadPOS on supported PAX terminals. It keeps cardholder data on the payment device while returning safe authorization details and optional processor token references to LiftedPOS.

You talk to who builds it

No account managers or offshore relay. Strategy and code from one senior team — and you can reach the founder directly. Shipped is the start of the relationship, not the end of it.

Let's build something

Ready to ship the
right software?

Book a 30-minute strategy call — a custom build, a website, payments, or a product. Straight talk, real engineering, fast turnaround.