The first story
The first field note from someone using our tools will appear here.
Projects · Field notes · Real world. Real stories.
Software builds a brighter tomorrow.
Stories from the road: the people, places and projects our tools are built with, told plainly and with their permission.
People
The people we build with
Café owners, district staff, business owners and investors. Their stories will be written with them, in their words, and published only with their permission.
Places
Local roots
North Shore, BC
Where the company started in 2024, and where ideas get tried on the businesses around us first.
Projects
Where the work is happening
Little Lion
A Community Intelligence Platform: a grassroots publishing and communications network.
LOLO
A Hospitality Intelligence Platform: fair tips and everyday operations for independent hospitality teams.
Small Axe
A financial technology initiative for individual investors, on hold pending resources and funding.
AI tools for small business
A two-year research initiative in the Laboratory.
Got a story from the street?
If you run an independent business or a community organization and have a story about the problems we are working on, we'd like to hear it.