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Building · Housing · 2026
"trust scaffolding for a market that lost its rails"
Renting in Britain is held together by paperwork, gut feel and a referencing industry nobody trusts. Holt is the trust layer underneath it — a marketplace where landlords and tenants are both verified, both scored, and meet each other on the strength of evidence rather than the size of a deposit.
Live · Protocol · 2026
"the commerce layer the web forgot to ship"
The web was written for browsers. Agents arrived later, and nothing was waiting for them. Agora is an open protocol that lets any AI agent discover, search and buy across any participating store — the missing transaction layer for the agent-led internet.
Live · Property · 2026
"the managing agent that finally reads the legislation"
Most managing agents charge between eight and twenty percent of monthly rent to answer questions a textbook could answer. Holt Agent is the textbook — and the clerk, and the compliance diary, and the forensic accountant who reads the bank statement properly.
Live · Hospitality · 2025
"a kitchen running on receipt paper and conviction"
There is a small Chinese takeaway in Weymouth where every order — phone, website, Deliveroo, Just Eat — lands on the same thermal printer in the same order. The printer never asks where the ticket came from. That is BentoPOS, doing its job.
Live · Heritage · 2026
"twenty-six years of habit, finally on the right website"
Queenie ran Weymouth's premier Chinese restaurant, Ming Wah, for twenty-six years before moving her chefs into the Mayflower takeaway down the road. The food carried over. The website did not. We rebuilt it for the shop that exists today.
Live · Wellbeing · 2025
"an app that refuses to ask anything of you"
Download on the App StoreMost apps that promise calm sell you a subscription, a streak and a daily push notification at 7:42 in the morning. Overstimulated does none of that. It opens. You use it. You close it. Nothing is counted.
MVP · Trades · 2026
"the price a tradesperson actually pays, not the one on the shelf"
An electrician on a Tuesday morning needs a junction box, a roll of cable and an answer to the question of whether the merchant up the road is cheaper than the one she usually uses. Reckon is the tool in the van that answers it without three browser tabs and a phone call.
In dev · Bookkeeping · 2026
"bookkeeping that speaks the language of the person doing it"
Most small-business owners do not need accounting software. They need somewhere to put the receipt before it falls out of the wallet, and a way to know if the side business is making any money. Neatbooks is that — without the jargon and without a chart of accounts.
About · Studio · 2026
"operator and builder, immigrant founders, skin in the game"
Bento Labs is two people. Matthew Góralczyk builds the products. Nam Tang runs the room around them. The work that follows is what happens when an operator and a builder agree, in writing, to keep going.