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Black Sheep Group Independent technology lab

Start with what if. End with what works.

We build things differently. Independent software, AI systems, developer tools, research, and experiments: dreamed up, tested properly, and improved by what we learn.

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Current projects

4 projects. Different problems, one way of working.

BSG / P-001 Product

Kenzy

AI / Smart Home / Voice

Whole-home AI that listens, understands, and responds wherever you are.

Accepted
A voice assistant is a cloud account plus a separate speaker in every room, none of which know about the others.
Asked
Why can't the whole house be one assistant, running on your own network, that knows which room you're in and who's talking?
BSG / P-002 Alpha

Zubifi

Finance / Research / Data

Tools for exploring markets, investments, and the data behind them.

Accepted
Market research comes as either raw numbers with no context or someone else's conclusion with no reasoning.
Asked
What if the tools explained the data, showed how each view was reached, and kept score of how those views held up?
BSG / P-003 Product

TagTheWord

Bible Study / Education / Digital Resources

Bible study resources built to make serious study easier to access.

Accepted
Serious Bible study means a shelf of reference books, or a stack of separate apps for text, audio, and commentary.
Asked
Why can't the text, the audio, and the study material sit together in one place, in more than one language, on whatever device is at hand?
BSG / P-004 Beta

QueryCommander

Developer Tools / Databases

A modern SQL workspace that lives in your browser.

Accepted
A database client is a heavy desktop install that has to be configured, secured, and kept up to date separately on every machine.
Asked
Why not one SQL workspace in the browser, hosted where your data already lives, with access controlled in one place?

Project index

How we work

The projects share no market. They share a method.

  1. Dream

    Start with what the software could be, not how it has always worked. Most of our projects begin with "what if it didn't have to be like this?"

  2. Test

    Build it and measure it: benchmarks, prototypes, pilots with real users. Until it's been tested, an idea is still a guess.

  3. Learn

    Keep what works, drop what doesn't, and write down why. What we learn goes into the next version, or the next project.

Where things stand

Not every project goes through every stage. Experiments start in Labs.

  1. ConceptAn idea with a problem statement and not much else. —
  2. LabBeing built and tested in-house. May change or disappear. —
  3. AlphaWorking, in limited hands. Rough edges expected.
  4. BetaUsable and public. Still settling.
  5. ProductReleased and maintained.

Latest research

Benchmarks, experiments, and what we learned from them.

All research