IT infrastructure
Kubernetes clusters, AWS, networking, storage, backups, DNS, certificates, and the monitoring that tells you something is wrong before a customer does. Designed, built, and then operated day to day.
Third M Ventures · consulting
Infrastructure that holds up on an island.
Third M Ventures is a small consulting firm doing IT infrastructure, telecom, and AI voice work. We are an Illinois company, and a good share of what we build runs on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the power flickers, the links are long, and things have to keep working anyway.
What we do
Three things, done properly.
Telecom
Hosted PBX, SIP trunking, borders and carriers, E911, SMS, provisioning, and the billing behind it. Cloud platforms and on-premise systems, including the awkward handoffs between them.
AI voice
Voice agents that answer the phone, take appointments, and run outbound calls on real PSTN numbers. Speech models, telephony integration, and the controls a business needs before it trusts a machine with its callers.
Work
Two platforms we designed, built, and still run.
StratusTalk
A hosted telecom provider serving businesses in the Virgin Islands and the mainland. Third M Ventures designed and implemented the infrastructure end to end: the Kubernetes cluster, the per-customer PBX deployments, SIP border, provisioning, DNS, mail relay, billing integration, and the admin platform. We operate that cluster today.
stratustalk.comVoxLayer
AI voice agents for small businesses: receptionists, appointment setters, outbound callers, in English and Spanish. We built the platform infrastructure, the per-agent deployments, the speech pipeline, and the PSTN path, and we run the production cluster behind it.
voxlayer.aiLatest on St. Thomas
Island Power Guard
Lead-acid battery backups last about two years on St. Thomas power. Our newest effort brings in lithium iron phosphate UPS units with a ten-year battery, tested for six months at a local resort, sold and supported on island with four years of coverage. It is a small thing that makes daily life here a little better, which is the point.
islandpowerguard.com
How we work
- Small on purpose. You deal with the person who designs the system and the person who answers when it breaks. Same person.
- Built to be run. Everything ships with the monitoring, documentation, and recovery path it needs, because we usually end up operating it.
- Island aware. Power, latency, shipping, and staffing are different here. Designs account for that instead of assuming a data center down the street.
Contact
Tell us what you are up against.
A cluster that needs an owner, a phone system that needs replacing, an agent that should be answering the line, or a project on St. Thomas that needs someone who already knows the island. Write a few lines and we will reply by email.