our story

someone told me early in my career that i'd start a company in my basement someday. twenty years later, i proved them right. 🪝🌱👀

i'm a mechanical engineer with aphantasia — i can't form mental images. every thing i've ever designed — from consumer goods to complex industrial processes — exists only as felt geometry, mechanical intuition, and spatial relationships. no pictures. just physics. 

HempHooks started the way the best tools do — because the right one didn't exist yet. i built it for my own plants first. then i filed the patent. 

i've been around horticulture and harvesting for years. i know what it feels like to wrestle a branch into position with wire and zip ties and cordage and binder clips and whatever else, knowing the whole time that there had to be a better way. there wasn't. so i got a 3d printer and made one. 

HempHooks is engineered — not improvised. every hook radius, every spine curve, every engagement geometry exists because the physics demanded it. the grommet anchor is self-locking under load. the s-curve spine keeps your pot interior clear. the talon-shaped training hooks distribute contact force so your stems don't get wrecked while also maintaining an ideal attack angle. none of that happened by accident. 

this is my baby. every part of it represents what i love about solving problems — the obsessive iteration ("if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right"), the field testing on real plants, the satisfaction of a thing that just works well. 🌱

death to garden wire. 💀