WAYLAND HOLDINGS, LLC · HOLDING COMPANY · EST. BENTONVILLE, ARKANSAS
A holding company that builds, operates, and invests across AI, software, gaming, real estate, marketing, and managed IT.
Wayland Holdings is a holding company, not a fund. We build products from zero, operate them for the long run, and invest where we know the terrain — AI, software, gaming, real estate, marketing, and managed IT.
01 A local-first desktop app for screening the entire US market and backtesting investment strategies — research that never leaves your machine.
02 An indie game studio in Bentonville, Arkansas making tabletop and pocket games that are easy to learn, quick to set up, and fun to come back to.
03 Local SEO and email-marketing automation that helps small businesses get found and stay in front of their customers.
04 A native VS Code integration for the pi coding agent — multi-tab awareness, in-place model switching, and cost tracking wired into the editor.
05 A buy-and-hold real estate investment partnership specializing in buy, rehab, rent — single-family homes and condos held as long-term and targeted short-term rentals across Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas. Founded with partners Ben Bialas and Lance Keltner.
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06 A national managed-IT organization — flat-rate IT support, cybersecurity, and compliance delivered at scale, and the acquirer of Byte-Werx.
ACQUIRED · OCT 2022
Acquired by The 20 MSP
A Bentonville, Arkansas managed-IT services firm founded in 2013, serving hundreds of businesses across IT support, consulting, and maintenance. Acquired by The 20 MSP in October 2022 after a five-year working relationship.
Read the announcement ↗Founder & Managing Director, Wayland Holdings, LLC
Michael Wayland is the Founder & Managing Director of Wayland Holdings, LLC. He led Byte-Werx, a managed-service-provider IT firm, from its inception in 2013 through its 2022 acquisition by The 20 MSP, and today builds, operates, and invests across AI, software, gaming, real estate, marketing, managed IT, and other technology-forward ventures — including the local-first investing platform Quantery, developer tooling under PiDE PiPER, and the indie studio Sunny Parasite Games.
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