About Voluta Digital

Tattoo Artists, Tree Huggers, and Tech Wizards

We are a handful of people devoted to halting the ridiculous reliance on trees and paper for human legal issues. Digitizing legal waivers saves vast forests yearly (especially in the USA, where people sue each other for fun and pleasure). By building tech that prevents legal problems, people might relax and break less…everything. Voluta Digital is our widget for soothing humanity while preserving our wondrous planet.

Efficiency Snobs for a Calmer Humanity

The founders, engineer Francis Bowen and tattooer Conan Lea, blend engineering and artistry to eliminate the stress and red tape of paper waiver processes. Francis loves quantifying and math-crushing problems that waste human potential. Conan loves challenging ‘standards’ with oblique yet simple and pretty solutions for human workflow. Together, they designed, coded, and launched TRF app back in 2013 to a tattoo industry still skeptical of the newfangled iPad.

Conan invited his brother, tattoo artist Brandon Lea, to the front of Voluta Digital to help our customers feel amazing, one of Brandon’s superpowers. He braved the role of our first social media agent, taught himself the game, and rode the wave, keeping us afloat as social media became…the world.

Conan and Brandon took TRF to tattoo conventions across the USA and asked artists and studio owners what they wanted from the app. The feedback was enormous and positive, which began the product feedback cycle we still build on today: ask the artists, update the app, repeat. Indeed, TRF app is made by tattooers for tattooers.

Erin Wynn came along and took the helm of social media, realizing that Brandon needed help building and maintaining our society of international TRF artists. She excels at bringing us together, which you’ll know if you follow @VolutaTattoo or @TattooReleaseFormsApp. None better!

Mollie Beets came to us the hard way: collecting a sleeve tattoo from Conan. She’s sharp and tough as nails, with a keen female intelligence that nearly sees through walls. She brings her tech-industry skills and savvy to the team, wisdom earned by having lived tech.

Klejdi Hoxha builds the engine that powers the new TRF. He’s a severely determined developer who lives by a self-chosen code of honor and discipline that would’ve impressed the Samurai. The complete recoding of TRF app is his creation, and we’d have no app without him. #gratitude

Conan asked UX/UI designer Stefano Okti to unleash his skills on our product. He modernized the interface and fluidity of TRF, lending his sense of minimalism and elegance to the app and elevating it from a mere tool to a pleasant experience.

We then asked renowned UX/UI designer Marko Bijelic to consider the final design and assembly of TRF app, where pretty screens become code. TRICKY BUSINESS. Lucky for us, he was interested! Considering his human-machine interface designs for Apple, Google, and Zoom, we knew we could trust him with our wee project. He refined and wove Stefano’s designs and Conan’s understanding of tattoo client, artist, and studio owner needs into TRF App Version 3.0. Marko’s skills are FIRE, and we can’t wait for his redesign of Piercing Release Forms App in 2026.

Mike Whitaker is the Voluta Digital web designer. He asks the right questions, gracefully vetoes silly answers, and has a nearly prescient understanding of TRF user needs. Under his command, snapping the website UI and backend code together looks easy.

The Mothership: Voluta Tattoo Studio

Voluta Digital was born at Voluta Tattoo Studio in Indianapolis, USA. Voluta enjoys a fine 18-year reputation for inclusive, all-custom tattooing on intelligent collectors. Those collectors became our friends, and those friends lifted Voluta, spreading the message to like-minded collectors throughout the Midwest. With thousands of clients ribboned together by miles of tattoo coverage spanning 18 years, Voluta is indeed a living tapestry. 

If you’re a kind and hard-working, never-screw-your-client-or-studio sort of tattooer, please consider stopping by Voluta to visit when you are passing through Indy. We maintain a rolling list of fantastic guest tattooers, and we’d love to blend our skills and good vibes with you.