Ignesco: Latin for “to ignite.”

Who we are

IGNESCO started as a creative agency building websites, brands, print and digital media, and prototypes. Today the work has grown into a broader mix of technology and operations help for businesses that want one dependable partner.

Based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, we work with businesses across the Pine Belt, the South and beyond. When you reach out, you get an honest response from a real human, and you work directly with the people doing the work.

Michael White, founder of IGNESCO, has built and led Engineering, Product, and Operations teams across software and manufacturing, overseeing more than 2,000 software implementations in markets including UCaaS, telecom, healthcare, and pharmacy.

See what we do, from websites and AI automation to fractional CTO and fractional COO leadership, and how we price it.

I started IGNESCO in 2017. I was coming off my 2015–2016 run as COO of Pharmedio and ready for a new venture, and a lot of people in my network needed websites and custom software. Building them was a natural next step.

We began with websites, then saw that web apps and custom software could make an even bigger difference, so we cut our teeth on those more complex projects. Along the way we learned that sometimes the best return for a client isn’t new software at all. It’s the right off-the-shelf tool or a better workflow. That grew into a steady group of workflow and consulting clients, and I found myself doing fractional COO and CTO work before most people had a name for it.

My family and I live in Hattiesburg, and we love this community. Hattiesburg is more than a “small Mississippi town,” and we’re here to keep contributing to its local economy and startup culture.