Cast Net Technology is a US software engineering company. We design and build custom systems across many domains — web, data, AI, developer tooling, on-prem deployments — for clients who need something properly written. We keep the team small on purpose, we work slowly enough to do the job right, and we stay engaged after delivery. This page is the longer version of how we got here.
We'd spent years building software in industries where the consequences of getting it wrong were real and traceable — not just a bad user experience, but a wrong chart, a missed regulatory change, an inventory error that nobody could explain. In each of those industries, the same pattern showed up: impressive demos, vendor lock-in, and software that broke in subtle ways once real data hit it.
So we started Cast Net Technology to build the kind of software we wanted to use ourselves. Small team, no venture pressure, opinionated about what we build and how. We take on projects across many industries — the through-line isn't a domain, it's a disposition. We care about the code being right. We care about the system being legible. We care about the people using it still being in charge of it a year from now.
The name "Cast Net" comes from the idea of throwing a structured, purposeful net — not a random grab. A cast net catches what's there, not what you hope is there. It leaves a record. You can see what it found and decide what to keep. That's the mental model for every product we ship.
"We'd rather ship one product that a specific team can actually use than ten features that fit on a slide."
Because generic software built for everyone tends to do nothing well. The teams we work with have specific, stubborn workflows that off-the-shelf tools don't fit. We'd rather solve one problem properly than ten problems halfway — and we'd rather know our clients by name.
We try very hard not to oversell. Every claim we make in our software has a source, every finding has a citation, every uncertain answer has a flag on it. The only time a Cast Net product sounds confident is when the underlying evidence actually supports it.
Same rule applies to how we talk about the company. We describe our products accurately and acknowledge their limits. We don't write marketing copy that contradicts the disclaimer at the bottom.
A tool that does five things clearly is more useful than a tool that does fifty things vaguely. We deliberately build narrow products. We kill features that would require a manual to explain. We write commit messages our future selves can understand.
The happy result is software that new team members can read in a weekend and old team members can debug at 2am.
Our default deployment for anything that touches real data is on-prem. Sensitive data stays inside the network it came from. We don't get a copy, we don't get a backdoor, and there is no telemetry phoning home. If a cloud deployment fits better for a given project, that is an explicit conversation — not the default.
This is not a feature we added to reassure buyers. It's how we built the products from day one, and it's why working with us is different from shopping for SaaS.
There's no VC behind Cast Net Technology. There's no growth target we have to hit. There's no pressure to ship a feature we don't believe in because a board member saw it at a conference. We're a small team of engineers who got tired of building software for other people's roadmaps, so we built our own.
Everything we ship has an actual client behind it, and we talk to those clients all the time. That's how we figure out what to work on next, what to fix first, and what ideas to stop pursuing. No surveys, no focus groups, no analyst calls. Just real problems from real users.
If any of this resonates, or you have a weird niche problem you've been trying to solve with off-the-shelf tools that don't quite fit — reach out. Worst case we'll tell you honestly that we're not the right people. Best case we build something new.
— The Cast Net Technology team
We don't sell a horizontal SaaS, a no-code builder, or a general-purpose automation layer. Each of our products is purpose-built for one domain. If you're looking for "build anything, anywhere", we're not your shop.
Our software is decision support, not decision replacement. We build tools that make expert work faster and more auditable, but the expert stays the expert. If a system we ship is making a high-stakes call without a human signing off, something has gone wrong in the design.
We don't collect, aggregate, sell, or train on customer data. On-prem is the default deployment because that's the architecture we trust. Anything else is a custom conversation with explicit consent.
Our products work best for teams with specific, stubborn problems that off-the-shelf tools can't solve. If the vendor you looked at already handles your workflow cleanly, use that vendor. We'll tell you so.
The most honest way to see how we work is to read code we wrote. Our open-source retrieval engine — Mnemosyne on GitHub — is a good place to start. Or reach out and tell us what you're working on.