Heap Digital is a small software company. We look for problems worth solving, research them until most of them fail, then engineer the few survivors and run them for years.
We collect problems, not ideas. Most come from industries still run on paper, texts and spreadsheets, where the software either doesn't exist or nobody can afford it.
Each candidate gets a written brief: who has the problem, what it costs them, what they pay today, and who has already tried to fix it. Most candidates die here, on the page, with the reasons recorded.
Before any real build spend, the survivors have to prove demand outside our own heads - conversations with operators, signups, pre-orders. Opinions don't count.
A small, sharp first version of the one workflow that matters, shipped early to the people who asked for it, then improved with them rather than in a planning document.
Anything that earns its keep gets maintained for years. The misses stay small and get shut down honestly instead of being left to rot.
Boring on purpose. Everything here is mature, widely known and cheap to run, which means a product can be handed to someone else without a rewrite, and keeping one alive for years stays cheap enough that it never has to turn into something else to survive.
Event crews and the people coordinating them
Practitioners and the firms accountable for them
Solutions for venues and event spaces
Landlords and the people managing their properties
Solutions for clinics, hospitals, practitioners
Schools, universities, and their administrators
Departments, agencies, and the people running them
Products are announced on their own names, when they open to customers - not before. Until then the industry is the only thing worth saying.
If your business runs on paper, texts and spreadsheets because nothing on the market fits, that's the kind of problem we go looking for. Describe it in a couple of sentences - it's how most of our products start. Partnerships and press are welcome on the same address.