Custom software
Software shaped around the way you already work, rather than the other way round: web applications, internal tools, portals, and the automation of work that repeats.
Orc Software
services
We take a product from the idea through to running it in production, or exactly the part that is missing.
build
iOS and Android apps
Apps for both platforms from a single codebase, including release to the App Store and Google Play.
Backend and APIs
Data model, business logic and documented interfaces, cut so that further applications can build on them later.
run
Cloud infrastructure
Building and running in the cloud: object storage, delivery through a content delivery network, automated deployment, and scaling with load.
Server operations
Your own servers instead of someone else's platform, for when the data has to stay in the house. Setup, hardening, monitoring and maintenance included.
Neutral infrastructure (escrow)
When two parties build something together, we provide the infrastructure as a neutral third party. Both sides work on it as equals, and neither can lock the other out.
specialist work
Neural networks built to fit
Models cut to the actual use case and to the data you already hold: image and text recognition, classification, recommendations and semantic search.
Encryption and access control
End-to-end encryption, key management and server-side access rules. Sensitive data stays hidden even from whoever runs the application.
In detail:iOS and Android appsNeutral infrastructure (escrow)
work
Our own products and client projects, from the app through the infrastructure to keeping it running.
sooreal
Social media platform
A multimodal architecture for social media systems that scale. The backend combines conventional database queries with vector search, machine learning and tuned ranking.
sooreal.net
txts
Messenger
A security architecture for modern end-to-end communication, built throughout for confidentiality, integrity and scale, and asking the server for as little trust as possible.
txts.chat
Heracles
Hedge fund
A complete trading infrastructure for a hedge fund: our own servers, algorithms for options trading, and models trained specifically for it. Built for reliable execution under time pressure.
Heracles
pype
Social media scheduling
High-availability infrastructure for social media automation. The backend handles thousands of scheduled jobs through asynchronous workers, tuned database access and queues, and stays predictable under heavy load.
pype.ch
fily
Accounting software
Accounting for Swiss SMEs with a programmable API, from the receipt through to the VAT return. Receipt capture, QR invoices, camt.053 bank reconciliation and closing all run in one system, and connected applications deliver sales straight in as bookings.
fily.ch
process
How a project runs with us, from the first question to going live.
- 01
Conversation
We listen to what is needed and say plainly which parts make sense and which don't. What comes out is an assessment of scope, effort and sequence, free and without obligation.
An assessment of scope, effort and sequence
- 02
Design
Data model, architecture and interface are settled before the first line is written. What is decided here does not cost ten times as much later on.
Data model, architecture and interface settled
- 03
Build
Development in stretches you can hold in your head. After each one there is something running to look at rather than a status report, and the direction can still be corrected.
Something running after each stretch
- 04
Operation
Launch, monitoring and upkeep. We can keep running it indefinitely, or hand it over completely to your own team.
Running operation, or a complete handover
technology
What we work with, across five areas. Listed here is only what is actually built into our own products.
- Cryptography and security
- Data and search
- Machine learning
- Infrastructure and operations
- Applications and interfaces
contact
A project in mind, or a question about building one? Write to us and we'll come back to you.
founders
Alessandro Pafumi
Co-Founder & CTO
Loris Celentano
Co-Founder & COO
Custom software
Off-the-shelf software bends the business into its own shape. We go the other way and build along the process that actually exists, from the first sketch through delivery to running it in production. Or from whichever part is missing. What we build is yours: source code, documentation and infrastructure all stay transferable.
- Web applications, internal tools and portals built to fit
- Repetitive manual work automated rather than administered
- Connected to the systems you already run, not an island
- Handover with source code and documentation, no lock-in to us