Tim Harrison
President
It started with an Apple IIe. Tim was eight or nine when his dad brought one home, and he spent hours watching a little dot fly around in a flight simulator.
Tim Harrison
President
It started with an Apple IIe. Tim was eight or nine when his dad brought one home, and he spent hours watching a little dot fly around in a flight simulator. Then he found the programming code printed in the back of PC World, typed those games in line by line, and got hooked on the idea that you could make the machine do things. HTML and websites came next when the internet showed up, and eventually a Computer Integrated Manufacturing degree from Purdue — CS classes mixed in with the engineering and shop-floor side of things.
Most of his career was spent selling, implementing, and supporting software as part of larger material handling automation systems. He saw a lot of how the industry actually treats the people writing the checks. And he didn't love it.
Aslan started with a favor. A guy named Ted McClure asked Tim for help with his website — nothing dramatic — and it got him thinking: if Ted's struggling with this, how many other businesses are too? Enough, it turned out. The thing that bothered Tim most was the SaaS playbook: build it "sticky," make leaving painful, and quietly hold a client's own data and tools hostage. He thought that was backwards. So Aslan was built on the opposite bet — you pay to have software built, you own it. Code, data, IP, all of it. No subscriptions, no lock-in, no leverage held over your head. The name comes from C.S. Lewis's lion: quiet strength, good work, no fanfare.
When he's not building, Tim's with his kids, in the gym, or at the beach. He and his lovely wife have a lot of fun together — she's sharp, loves history as much as he does, and most of their best conversations start with one of them wandering down some historical rabbit hole and not climbing back out.
