Michigan-based, Gen8 Solutions was formed in partnership with Weird Kid Software in 2007. Weird Kid Software has been marketing email conversion technology to the consumer market since 1999. Since its inception, Weird Kid Software has sold and supported its products to thousands of clients worldwide.

With the rise of government regulation and its impact on corporate governance policies, email communication has become a great concern for government and corporations. Gen8 Solutions was created to supply custom email collection and conversion technologies to vendors developing solutions for the e-discovery, email archiving and email migration marketplace.