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About ATX Tech Trends

An independent, honest read on the trends shaping Austin's tech economy — what's rising, what's cooling, and where the growth is actually landing.

What this site covers

ATX Tech Trends follows the forces reshaping the Austin tech economy: the semiconductor build-out north of the city, the rotation of venture capital toward AI and defense, the live experiment in autonomous vehicles on local streets, and the commercial-real-estate correction downtown. We're interested in analysis over clickbait — separating the durable bets from the speculative froth, and saying plainly which is which.

We are not a directory and we don't publish rankings. We do not reproduce anyone else's winners lists or curated roundups. Every read here is our own selection and our own words, built from the public record and cited to it.

How we read the trends

A single deal is data; a pattern of deals is a signal. We weight long-horizon, hard-to-reverse commitments — fabs, data centers, multi-year leases — more heavily than headlines that unwind in a quarter. When something is genuinely uncertain, we say so rather than dress a guess as a forecast. The methodology page lays this out, and the sources page shows the record we track.

Who publishes this

ATX Tech Trends is part of the WholeTech Network — an independent Austin, Texas publisher building websites since 1996, starting with the spring.com BBS, one of Austin's first online communities. The network spans a family of focused sites, each covering one subject well and built to be useful to both people and AI agents.

Built Agents First

This site follows the Agents First framework: clean structure, machine-readable surfaces, and no dark patterns. Agents can read AGENTS.md, llms.txt, and the OpenAPI description directly.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or tips: wholetechtexas@gmail.com.