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I'm Andy. I built Digital Empire because compliance software eats founder mornings.

Solo founder. Wyoming LLC. Three narrow tools that watch one dated regulatory or platform deadline each and tell you if it applies to your store. Two paying customers, both from cold outbound, both won inside the last four weeks. No investors, no press, no logo strip. If you email me, I reply.

By Andy Gaber, Founder 路 Published: August 16, 2026 路 Last updated: August 20, 2026 路 Reviewed by Andy Gaber (attorney review pending for legal claims and cross-referenced compliance rules).

Andy Gaber, founder of Digital Empire Holdings LLC (photo pending -- placeholder until Andy uploads a real headshot)

Andy Gaber, Founder

Every product on this site was written, deployed, and supported by one person. There is no growth team, no VP of engineering, no support queue routing tickets to a contractor in another timezone. If you email support@digitalempireholdings.com or reply to a checkout receipt, you are emailing me directly. That is the good news and the bad news, and this page exists to be honest about both sides of it before you enter a card number.

Why I built this

A friend of mine runs a Shopify store. Small operation, four SKUs, mid-six-figure a year in revenue when things are working. One quiet Tuesday his Meta pixel stopped firing on the checkout confirmation page. Not a full outage -- just the last event in the funnel, the one Meta's optimizer actually uses to decide who to show ads to. He didn't notice. Meta's dashboard didn't warn him. His ad-account manager didn't flag it. It took eleven days for him to figure out why his attribution had cratered, and by then the ad algorithm had already spent about $80,000 of budget optimizing toward the wrong signal. He called me at midnight in a state I do not want to describe.

The frustrating part wasn't that the pixel broke. Pixels break constantly -- checkout upgrades, theme edits, app conflicts, GTM race conditions. The frustrating part was that every tool that could have caught it early either cost enterprise money (four figures a month, annual contract, mandatory demo call) or required him to become a JavaScript engineer for a weekend. There was nothing in the middle for a merchant who runs his own storefront at 10pm and can't afford either the SaaS or the weekend. I looked around and realized this pattern shows up in every compliance vertical that touches ecommerce: CPSC filing rules, Section 232 tariffs, FTC dark patterns, GDPR breach notification. Enterprise SaaS on one side, DIY twenty-hour manual on the other, and a merchant caught in the middle paying for the mistake.

Digital Empire Holdings LLC exists to build the boring middle. Narrow tools. One dated deadline each. Priced for the merchant, not the procurement department. Written to be useful the same day you sign up rather than after a six-week onboarding. I formed the LLC in Wyoming in 2024, spent the back half of that year and most of 2025 trying three or four wrong shapes for the same idea -- a citation-safe writing tool, a cross-broker compliance dashboard, a niche daily digest -- and in August 2026 honestly killed the ones that weren't converting and pivoted the whole portfolio to what's live today. The name for that pivot, if you care about the history, is "August Gold." It just means I stopped defending the sunk cost and shipped three tools that answered a specific question a specific merchant asked me.

The reason there are three of them and not one: I don't yet know which vertical will find the strongest paying-customer signal, and I would rather ship three narrow tools than one bloated platform that promises to cover everything and does none of it well. Portfolio hedging on a solo budget looks like this. If one of the three finds a real customer base in the next ninety days, it gets the roadmap and the others go to maintenance mode. If none of them do, they all get honestly shut down and the LLC moves on to a fourth idea rather than pretending they're all doing fine.

The three products, explained without marketing

  • PixelProof catches broken Meta pixels before Meta's optimizer throttles your ad account for a signal it can't trust. Also watches GA4 and GTM. Scans before the Shopify checkout upgrade breaks tracking and alerts on drift afterward. Built because of the story two paragraphs up.
  • EntryProof is a two-minute readiness check for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's eFiling requirement for cross-border sellers. Cross-references your product against the CPSC eFiling program and returns a written readiness summary you can hand your broker. Built because small importers were paying brokers hundreds of dollars for a five-minute conversation that could have been a form.
  • TariffWatch monitors Section 232 metals-tariff exposure on Harmonized Tariff Schedule codes and drafts written rebuttal packets. Pulls from Federal Register proclamations and their scheduled effective dates. Built because a proclamation lands on a Friday and every importer in the niche wakes up Monday to a new duty column on the same HTS code they've been shipping under for years.
  • None of the three is a licensed customs broker, a filer of record, a legal-advice service, or a regulator-issued compliance certification. They are data and workflow tools. Final compliance decisions stay with your own attorney or licensed broker.

Why one founder, three products

The three verticals share a customer archetype: small-to-mid founders who can't afford enterprise SaaS but are exposed to enterprise-scale regulatory risk. A merchant who imports metal-part SKUs from overseas is exactly the person whose Shopify pixel is also breaking. The same person who's worried about a CPSC filing is also the person watching a tariff schedule flip on Friday. Building three tools for the same person is cheaper than building three separate businesses for three separate people, because the underlying billing, auth, email, observability, and legal boilerplate is written once. If one product finds a hundred paying customers, the other two either follow or shut down; the customer never has to migrate.

What I won't build

The list of things this LLC will politely refuse to do, so you don't have to ask.

  • No custom enterprise implementations. If your legal team needs a six-week statement of work, a dedicated onboarding manager, and a red-lined MSA before you can trial a $99/month tool, this isn't the shop. That's an honest fit problem, not a slight.
  • No agency or professional-services layer. I don't take retainers to configure the tool for you, run reports on your behalf, or manage your ad account. The tool has to be usable in an afternoon without me. If it isn't, that's a product bug and I'd rather fix it than sell around it.
  • Nothing that requires more than two humans to run. If a feature can't be operated by one founder plus one part-time contractor, it's the wrong feature. Every product is scoped to survive the founder being sick for a week without customers getting hurt.
  • No lock-in on data. One-click export, one-click delete, at any time, on every product. If you decide the tool isn't working and you want your scan history in a CSV before you cancel, that's a link in your account page, not a support ticket.
  • No fake urgency, no dark-pattern subscriptions, no logo-strip lies. Every claim on this site has to be defensible under a chargeback dispute or an FTC endorsement complaint. If you catch us breaking that promise, email me and I'll refund you the same day.

Founding Trio -- the commitment to the first five

The first 5 paying customers across the three products get $299/year grandfathered. Not for the first year, not for twelve months and then a pricing memo -- the founding rate holds for as long as their membership stays continuous. Cancel and come back later and you re-enter at public pricing; the grandfather is tied to continuous membership, not to an email address in perpetuity. That price is roughly one-quarter of the eventual steady-state annual rate on the smallest tier. The trade you're making: the tools are early, the roadmap will change, and you're accepting that in exchange for pricing that will not be available to anyone else after slot five closes. See /founding-trio for the live slot counter and the written pricing lock. If you're one of those first five, you also get a direct email loop with me on roadmap decisions -- reply to any product email, tell me what hurts, and it goes in the next planning cycle.

What I need from you

The unglamorous part of a solo shop is that the founder's inbox is the only place bad news arrives. Three specific asks if you become a customer or a trial user.

  • Reply to any email. Every message from a Digital Empire product hits my inbox on the reply. There is no support queue in front of me and no auto-responder pretending there is. If you have a question, hit reply. If you have a complaint, hit reply harder.
  • Tell me what breaks. The tool that catches your broken pixel is itself software written by one person -- it has bugs. If a scan misses something, a report reads wrong, or a checkout does something surprising, I want to know inside the hour, not on the way out the door in the cancellation flow.
  • Honest feedback beats polite feedback. If the copy is confusing, the pricing is wrong for your business, or a feature you need is missing, say so plainly. Two paying customers means every piece of unfiltered feedback moves the product materially. You are not being difficult -- you are the entire reason I know what to build next.

How we build

The engineering stack is deliberately unglamorous: Next.js on Vercel, Supabase for application data, Stripe for payments, Resend for transactional email, PostHog and Sentry for observability. There is no proprietary infrastructure. Every one of those vendors is listed on our data processing agreement page as a sub-processor, and any of them can be swapped out without breaking your data-export rights.

The unusual part is that the day-to-day authoring, testing, and operations work is done in partnership with the Claude Agent SDK running inside a Cowork automation environment. That means I write the specification and the acceptance tests, the agent writes and reviews the code, and I approve every deploy. It is how one person maintains three separate product surfaces in three regulatory verticals without cutting corners on things like attorney-pending policies, WCAG accessibility, and JSON-LD schema validation. It is also why the release cadence looks faster than a solo shop's should. If that combination makes you nervous, the code path for every production request is auditable end-to-end and the security disclosure address is support@digitalempireholdings.com.

What we won't do with your data

The list of promises about how your data is handled. Enforceable against us in a chargeback dispute or a regulatory complaint.

  • Never sell your data. Customer email addresses, store URLs, scan results, uploaded documents, and tariff filings are not for sale to any third party, at any price, ever. If we ever change this policy, existing customers get thirty days' notice and a full data export before the change takes effect.
  • Never use your data to train models. Nothing you upload, scan, or type into a Digital Empire product is used as training data for any foundation model, our own or a third party's. Model inference calls to OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other vendor are sent with the vendor's no-training data-processing terms in effect.
  • No dark-pattern subscriptions. Every paid subscription is one-click cancel from the account page, priced in a single flat line item with no add-on upsells, and never auto-renews at a rate different from the one you signed up at without explicit re-confirmation. This follows the Federal Trade Commission guidance on dark patterns and the FTC's Negative Option Rule, both of which we take as a binding floor even where not strictly required.
  • Full deletion within thirty days on request. Email support@digitalempireholdings.com or use the in-product delete flow at /meta-monitor/account/delete or the equivalent path for the product you use. All customer records, uploaded documents, backups, and derived data are purged within thirty days, with a signed written confirmation on request.
  • Cancel anytime with one click. No retention scripts, no cancel-flow friction pages designed to talk you out of it, no email verification loops before the cancellation processes. Cancellation stops billing immediately at the end of the current period and your data stays available for the ninety-day grace window per our published data-retention schedule.
  • Real support, real replies. Every product email address on this site reaches me directly. Response target is under one business day for support and under three business days for privacy or deletion requests. If we miss a target, email again; it means something fell through, not that we stopped caring.

Real numbers, as of today

The section future customers usually want and almost never get. These numbers are updated manually the day this page is edited. There is no dashboard behind them yet.

  • LLC formed: 2024, State of Wyoming (searchable on the Wyoming Secretary of State business filing search under "Digital Empire Holdings LLC").
  • Paying customers today: 2. Both signed up in the last four weeks, both on the smallest paid tier, both from cold outbound rather than inbound search. This is a real early-access phase, not a public claim of traction.
  • Products in production: 3 (PixelProof, EntryProof, TariffWatch). Each has its own status page linked from its landing page.
  • Uptime commitment: 99.9% monthly on the paid tiers, measured on the application's user-facing routes and reported honestly at /security. If a paid month falls below 99.9%, affected customers get a pro-rata credit without needing to ask.
  • Outside investors: None. Zero equity issued outside the founder.
  • Press mentions: None as of the date of this page. When there is one, it will be linked from this section with the outlet name and the publish date, not a vague "featured in" logo strip.
  • Awards or certifications: None. If we ever earn one, it will be listed here with the issuing body and the certificate number.

The corporate record for the entity behind this site:

  • Legal name: Digital Empire Holdings LLC
  • State of formation: Wyoming (LLC)
  • Founded: 2024
  • Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN): 42-3897663
  • Registered address: 30 N Gould St Ste N, Sheridan WY 82801
  • Founder: Andy Gaber
  • Public filing: searchable on the Wyoming Secretary of State.

Why trust us (and how to verify)

Every trust claim on this site is intended to be independently verifiable. This section is the map from a claim to the page that documents it.

How to reach me

Direct reply, no gatekeeping. Every address below hits my personal inbox. There is no ticketing queue in front of any of them today. When there is one, this page will say so and give the response-time target for each.

What changes next

The next planned updates to this page: a real founder headshot uploaded to /founder-andy.jpg (currently a placeholder), an attorney-review sign-off on the terms and privacy policies for all three products, and the first honestly-disclosed customer testimonial with a name, a company, a job title, and a link to a public profile that confirms the person exists. No testimonial will appear on this page from an unverifiable source, and no logo strip will appear that we did not have written permission to use. When the customer count crosses ten, a hundred, or a thousand, the number in this section will change accordingly; when a paid churn happens, the total goes down and this page reflects it within a week.

About the founder photo above: it is a reserved slot referencing /founder-andy.jpg. If the image fails to load, the lettermark placeholder is shown. This is deliberate; no stock photo or generative headshot will be substituted, and no name other than Andy Gaber will ever appear in the byline of this page.

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