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Dean McPherson
Co-founder and CTO · Paperform
Bootstrapped Forms
McPherson is trying to make online forms feel designed and productized so teams stop shipping ugly surveys that still need a second tool for payments.
Dean McPherson is co-founder and CTO of Paperform, the design-forward form builder he started with Diony McPherson in Australia. He has focused the product on branded forms, logic, and payments for marketing and operations teams that outgrew basic survey tools.
Building Paperform from Australia
Paperform's about page frames Dean and Diony as co-founders who wanted forms that felt like a designed page rather than a spreadsheet dump. Dean leads the technical side as CTO while the company stayed independent and product-led.
Under his engineering leadership Paperform expanded into payments, calculations, and workflow hooks without becoming a full site builder.
