We design, build and run private software for homes and small businesses. Our own products run our days first, and yours are built the same way.
Led by Johannes van der Merwe, a lead software engineer, with the AI agents he directs.
Most software asks you to change your habits or hand over your data. We build software that fits around how you already live and work, keeps what is private private, and stops asking for attention once it works.
That means connected devices in the home, private services, sites you edit from a spreadsheet, and tooling for teams who work alongside AI agents.
When we hit a chore with no good answer, we build the tool ourselves and use it every day before we offer it to anyone.
Your work calendar can mirror its meetings into your personal diary and protect your private time, even when your employer locks down the account. You get the coordination you need across systems that refuse to talk to each other.
A recorder on your desk transcribes spoken notes on local hardware, so the audio never leaves the room. Calendars share whether you are busy and nothing else. Privacy is the starting premise, not a setting.
A household board keeps the tally of shared chores in the background and only interrupts when it has to. Nothing we build adds another app to check or another inbox to clear.
Each of these started as a chore of our own. Every card's label says where it stands: live, in use, a demo, in development or planned.
Fairshare
LiveA shared list of household jobs that keeps the tally for you. Log a job in a tap and get on with your day. It only speaks up when something is due.
Twinspot
Live, invitation onlyTwinspot copies your work meetings into your personal calendar and marks personal appointments as busy at work. It works with locked work accounts that refuse other apps, because only your availability crosses over.
No public sign-up yet. Ask over coffee.
galago
In developmentgalago turns spoken notes and meetings into text on your own machine. The audio never leaves the room, and the transcripts are plain files in a folder you choose.
No public sign-up yet. Ask over coffee.
laluka
DemoPoint laluka at code, a textbook or a set of notes. It maps what there is to know and writes short lessons where every quote points back to its source.
Lyre
In useA desktop app that gathers the questions, specs and decisions waiting on you from every project into one place. Answer a question with the recommended option already picked, see what changed between two versions, and find any decision again.
No public sign-up yet. Ask over coffee.
Dorsal
LiveDorsal packages a project's code, tools and boards into one definition that starts the same on any computer. Agents work inside clear permissions, and a person approves every change before it lands.
No public sign-up yet. Ask over coffee.
Oxpecker
The first install is our own home.
Oxpecker will quietly run the alarms, the voice assistant and the sense of who is home, with nothing on show unless you want it. The technology is built once and tested once. The object and the service are bespoke: each visible device is housed to match its room, in oak, brass or plaster, or hidden entirely.
Happy to meet through your interior designer, architect or house manager.
Every route starts with a coffee, in person or on a call.
Software made for you, in your own accounts.
A commission for a home, a club or a small business. You own the code, the domain and the hosting from day one, and you can have us look after it afterwards. If you are unsure it will work, start with a written feasibility study.
Co-founders, agencies and investors.
You bring the idea, the customers or the capital; we bring the build. On a partnership you pay part of the development cost and we invest the rest, so we share the early risk.
We build the software you need, and you own everything from day one.
You have a clear project in mind and want an experienced engineer to build it. We set up the code, the domain and the hosting in your own accounts from the start. When the build is finished you can run it yourself, or choose an optional service contract so we look after it for you.
You cover part of the build cost, and we invest in your idea.
You have an early product and want a technical partner with skin in the game. You pay part of the development cost and Pangolin Technology invests the rest. We build it together, share the early risk, and stay invested in how it performs.
A written answer on whether your idea will work, before you build it.
You have an idea and are not sure it would work, or what it should cost. Let's grab a coffee and talk it through. The first conversation costs the price of a coffee. After that it is a standard hourly rate while we look closely at the systems involved and write up an honest answer.
On a commission, you do. The code is written in your own repository and is yours from the start, so you are never locked in. In a partnership, ownership is part of what we agree together before any work begins.
In your own accounts. We set up the hosting, the database and the domain in your name, so you pay the providers directly and hold the keys. If we ever part ways, your software stays online and untouched.
Your software lives in your own accounts, built with standard tools and written documentation. Any competent developer can read the repository and carry on. You hold the logins, so your business never depends on one person.
Yes, we work with AI agents, and Johannes approves every change they make before it reaches you. What we build for you is private by construction: where your software uses a language model, we choose with you where it runs and what it may see, and the default is that your data stays on your own hardware.
It depends on the size of the thing, and the coffee is where we find out. Work is delivered in stages you can try on your own phone or laptop as we go, so you are never waiting on one big reveal.
The first conversation costs the price of a coffee. A feasibility study is charged at a standard hourly rate. For a commission you get a written quote once we understand the scope, and in a partnership you pay part of the build cost and we invest the rest.
Pangolin Technology is an independent product studio led by Johannes van der Merwe, a lead software engineer. It works with founders, small businesses and households who want software shaped around how they already live and work.
Johannes sets the direction and approves every change. AI agents do much of the typing. You get the pace of a larger team and one accountable person from the first coffee to the handover.
Tell us what you are trying to do, or what you would like to build together. The first conversation costs the price of a coffee, in person or on a call.
Let's grab a coffee
