Build what helps
Technology should remove friction, strengthen judgment, and leave people with more control.
About Embyrs
A family home for books, music, and community.
Embyrs brings together the work of Chris and Jennifer Drake: books that make room for honest questions, music for resilience and hope, and a community built on shared conviction.
The home behind Embyrs
One family. Several forms of work. A shared direction.
Chris and Jennifer Drake are building Embyrs together with their three children from North Idaho. Technology, books, music, and community may look like separate paths, but they come from the same conviction: people need tools and spaces that help them think clearly, create honestly, and build something lasting.
Embyrs began as a home before it became a company—and family remains the model for how the work grows: through trust, responsibility, shared conviction, and room for every person to bring something real.
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Chris Drake · Author
Honest questions are part of the work.
Embyrs’ first publication, Dismantling Religion, grew from Chris’s willingness to question inherited structures and ask whether the Kingdom Jesus proclaimed has been misunderstood along the way.
The book looks beneath the surface, challenges assumptions, and asks how to rebuild around what is true and useful rather than what has merely become familiar.
Embyrs makes room for questions that deserve more than quick answers.Explore the book →
Jennifer Drake · Music
Jennifer gives the work another language.
Jennifer Drake has worked toward her first album for much of her life. Through White Wave Warrior, she writes from the place where strength and vulnerability meet—where grief is not hidden, doubt is not shamed, and hope is not naïve.
Her songs explore faith, struggle, love, and resilience. They are not background music. They are companion music for long walks, quiet processing, and standing back up again.
Steady, resilient, returning again and again with grace.Explore White Wave Warrior →
What unites the work
Embyrs exists where practical capability and human meaning meet.
Ask the harder question
Books, conversations, and community should make room for honest examination without abandoning hope.
Create for endurance
Music, systems, relationships, and ideas should be built to carry people through more than one moment.
Embyrs is not a collection of unrelated projects. It is the work of a family building useful, honest things together.
Connect with EmbyrsThe experience behind the technology
Built from systems. Expanded through story, music, and family.
The practical side of Embyrs draws on more than 25 years Chris Drake spent designing, installing, and maintaining the technical foundations organizations depend on. That experience supports Ordisyn today.
Chris DrakeSystems builder, network veteran, author, and founder of Embyrs.
25+years of IT experience
5 yearsfrom Network Engineer to Network Administrator at CEDU
10+ yearsconsulting through Drake Pacific Corporation
The foundation
Technology was never theoretical. It had to work in the real world.
Chris’s background spans multi-site operations, local government, hospitality, healthcare-related environments, schools, and growing businesses. The work was practical: understand what people needed, build the system, protect it, and keep it running.
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CEDU Family of Services
Network Engineer → Network AdministratorChris progressed from Network Engineer to Network Administrator at CEDU Family of Services, a multi-site educational services organization with a substantial North Idaho presence.
He supported the network foundation behind a distributed organization where reliable access, communication, and day-to-day continuity mattered. CEDU later ceased operations in 2005.
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Drake Pacific Corporation
Network Consultant · Working alongside his fatherAt Drake Pacific Corporation, Chris was responsible for the design, installation, and ongoing maintenance of small- and mid-sized networks for organizations throughout North Idaho.
The work crossed operating systems, industries, and security needs—requiring careful planning, direct client relationships, and the ability to keep complex environments understandable and supportable.
NovellCitrixWindowsLinuxNetwork designInstallationMaintenance
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Embyrs & Ordisyn
Owner · Systems architect · OperatorOrdisyn is not a sudden pivot into technology. It is the continuation of a career spent making systems serve people—now applied to private AI operations, connected business tools, and owner-controlled automation.
The same principles remain: understand the real workflow, limit access, document decisions, build for reliability, and stay accountable after launch.
Selected client environments
Trusted across businesses, public organizations, schools, and sensitive operations.
Organizations Chris supported through Drake Pacific Corporation included:
CDA Honda
Kootenai River Inn & Casino
City of Bonners Ferry
Lavigne Drug Group
Integrated Personnel
Vision Source
Lakes Highway District
Multiple schools and secure environments
Prior-client names identify historical work environments and do not imply current endorsement or affiliation.
What carried forward
Good technology should reduce weight—not create more of it.
After decades inside real organizations, Chris understands that a system is only valuable when people can trust it, control it, and live with it. That experience now shapes Ordisyn and the broader work of Embyrs.
See how Ordisyn works →Listen before designingStart with the actual people, process, and constraints—not a generic technology package.
Protect access and contextBuild privacy and permission boundaries into the operating model.
Remain responsible after launchMaintenance, documentation, and support are part of the system—not an afterthought.