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About BayouNorth

From Mirliton Media.
Built for what came next.

BayouNorth traces its roots to Mirliton Media, founded in New Orleans in 2009. As the work expanded into strategy, custom software, connected systems, and long-term technology leadership, the company needed a name that reflected the full road ahead.

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2009 Mirliton Media Founded in New Orleans
2019 Asheville A new home and perspective
2021 BayouNorth A broader name for broader work
Today Beyond the Code Strategy through support
2009Company founded
MirlitonThe original name
2New Orleans + Asheville
1Accountable technology partner

The company behind the name

The name changed because the work had changed.

Mirliton Media served as the company's first identity, rooted unmistakably in New Orleans. Over time, the work moved well beyond what the name suggested, into enterprise planning, custom applications, complex integrations, operational redesign, continuity, security, and long-term system ownership.

BayouNorth did not replace the company's roots. It gave the next chapter a name broad enough to carry them forward.

New Orleans roots

BayouNorth was shaped by relationships, resilience, and years of work across the Gulf South's commercial, public, educational, nonprofit, and cultural organizations.

A broader technology role

The company grew from delivering projects to helping organizations understand the problem, establish direction, build the solution, and support what comes next.

Founder-led accountability

Clients work directly with experienced leadership. Strategy and delivery stay connected instead of disappearing through layers of handoffs.

The road here

A company built by following the work. Not a category.

Each chapter expanded the company's understanding of what organizations actually need from technology: clear decisions, usable systems, reliable operations, and someone accountable beyond launch.

Meet the founder behind the work
  1. 2009
    First chapter

    Mirliton Media begins in New Orleans

    After more than a decade of university and private-sector technology leadership, Brian Jones established the independent company that would become BayouNorth.

  2. 2010s
    Expanding responsibility

    From projects to connected technology leadership

    The work expanded across strategy, custom software, systems integration, disaster response, ecommerce, compliance, operational planning, and ongoing support.

  3. 2019
    Northward

    Asheville becomes home

    The company established its Asheville base while continuing the New Orleans relationships and regional work that shaped its first two decades.

  4. 2021
    A name that fits

    Mirliton Media becomes BayouNorth

    The BayouNorth name connected the company's New Orleans roots with its Asheville addition. Better reflecting a mission reaching far beyond media or a single technical service.

  5. Today
    Beyond the Code

    Strategy, software, systems, and support

    BayouNorth operates as one accountable technology partner, combining consulting, implementation, product development, documentation, training, and long-term support.

What the name carries forward

A place. A direction. A promise.

The BayouNorth identity connects where the company came from, where it grew next, and how it approaches every technology decision.

Bayou

Rooted in New Orleans

The relationships, resilience, and practical problem-solving of the company's first home remain part of how BayouNorth works.

North

Moving with direction

Asheville represents the next chapter, and the belief that technology work needs a clear destination, not simply more motion.

< Beyond the Code >

Seeing the whole system

Software matters. So do the people, process, policy, data, risk, documentation, training, and support around it.

BayouNorth today

One connected path from difficult question to dependable operation.

BayouNorth works where strategy, systems, software, and day-to-day operations overlap. Especially when the work is too important for disconnected vendors and incomplete handoffs.

Strategy + planning

Assessments, requirements, architecture, process analysis, vendor decisions, and practical implementation roadmaps.

Software + integration

Custom applications, connected platforms, legacy modernization, data architecture, APIs, and system integration.

Digital operations

eCommerce, payments, content, administrative workflows, reporting, and the tools teams use to deliver the work.

Continuity + support

Documentation, training, security, recovery planning, maintenance, and long-term ownership after launch.

Meet the founder

Experience stays close to the work.

Brian J. Jones founded the company after leadership roles spanning university operations, software development, technology services, project delivery, and business management. He remains directly involved from the first difficult question through implementation and long-term support.

Founder-led since 2009 Read Brian's full profile

Two places, one company

New Orleans roots.
Asheville home.

BayouNorth's work continues across geography, industries, and long-term relationships, with the character of both places carried into the company.

South

New Orleans

The company's origin, longest relationships, and decades of work across education, government, nonprofits, commerce, disaster response, and Carnival organizations.

North

Asheville

The company's present home and the base for its next chapter, without losing the relationships, perspective, or commitments that came before it.

Start with a conversation

Bring us the challenge behind the technology.

BayouNorth will help uncover what the work actually requires, define a practical path, and stay involved through what comes next.

Email BayouNorth
General inquiries info@bayounorth.com New Orleans (504) 814-0246 Asheville (828) 484-6962