AI & product engineering studio

We build software, AI and connected products for ambitious companies.

Ragondin Dev is a senior product and engineering studio. We take products from idea to production: strategy, design, software, AI, infrastructure and hardware, with one team accountable for the whole thing.

Discuss a project See client work ↓

We also build our own technology. Ragondin Code and Ragondin AI are built, owned and operated by Ragondin Dev, by the same team that works with our clients.

We build things worth owning.

Educational robot: a 12-servo companion robot built to teach in classrooms
Client work · Educational robot 12 servos · AI running fully on-device · built to teach in classrooms

01 One studio, two sides

We build for clients. We build for ourselves.

For clients

We design and engineer products for companies that need senior technical execution without building an entire product team internally.

Consumer apps, marketplaces, platforms, data products, robots. Usually with responsibility from product definition through engineering and deployment.

See client work ↓

Our products

We also develop our own software and AI technology. Ragondin Code and Ragondin AI are built, owned and operated by Ragondin Dev.

We are not consultants who describe software. We build and run it ourselves, and that capability is what clients hire.

See our products ↓

02 Proof

Proven in production.

Across products built by the Ragondin team for clients, ventures and our own portfolio.

30+
Products designed, built and shipped
250k+
Registered users across those products
50,000
Concurrent users, infrastructure load-tested
500+
Businesses and individuals paid through live payment rails

Apps shipped on the App Store, Google Play and WeChat. AI running on-device in production. Hardware deployed in the real world. 24k+ blockchain transactions processed.

03 Client work

What we've built for companies.

fan dance: verified 1-on-1 video call with ID and QR fan dance: numbered collectible cards dropping

01 / 05

fan dance

Built for Trinket Inc.

A consumer platform where fans buy a verified two-minute video call with an artist, and walk away with a numbered collectible card from it.

The problem
Trinket needed a consumer product that could sell live access to artists at scale: paid, identity-verified, shareable, and turned into something fans could own.
What Ragondin built
The platform end to end: iOS and Android apps, payments, identity verification, live video, a provable numbering system for the cards, the live-drop mechanics that turn a fanbase into a marketplace, and the production infrastructure behind it.

Outcome20k+ downloads · 500+ drops · live on both stores

Our roleProduct · Engineering · Payments · Infrastructure

fan.dance ↗
Zero Food Waste: discovery feed of nearby surprise bags Zero Food Waste: store page with surprise box food gallery

02 / 05

Zero Food Waste 八点以后

Built for ZFW

A marketplace, built as a WeChat mini-program, connecting people with discounted restaurant inventory after 8PM instead of letting it go in the bin.

The problem
A two-sided marketplace had to launch inside WeChat, work for restaurants with no technical staff, and hold up under a Chinese consumer launch.
What Ragondin built
The whole product inside the WeChat platform: merchant onboarding, geo-based discovery, WeChat Pay, order flow, and infrastructure sized for the launch.

Outcome200k+ users · 600+ restaurants · 40k+ meals sold

Our roleProduct · WeChat · Payments · Infrastructure

Founders Lair: FLAIR opportunity explore feed Founders Lair: dealflow scouting dashboard

03 / 05

Founders Lair

Built for Founders Lair

A cross-border innovation platform where investors, governments and startups run programmes and dealflow against each other.

The problem
Three very different kinds of user, applications at volume, and a permissions model that had to keep them all in one system without leaking data between them.
What Ragondin built
The platform behind it: open calls and applications at volume, scouting and dealflow dashboards, and the multi-sided permissions model that holds it together.

Outcome300+ projects · 25k applications processed

Our roleProduct · Engineering · Multi-tenant platform · Web

founderslair.com ↗
Educational Robot: Spark curiosity · Inspire creativity · Grow minds

04 / 05

Educational Robot

Built for an art & science creativity school

A companion robot for classrooms: twelve servos, a face, and a conversation, built to hold the attention of a room full of children.

The problem
A physical robot that teaches has to work with no network, in two languages, in front of children, with nothing leaving the room.
What Ragondin built
Hardware and software as one product: servo motion and expression, plus a bilingual AI stack running entirely on the device.

Outcome12 servos · AI fully on-device · deployed in classrooms

Our roleHardware · Robotics · On-device AI · Product

Heart Homes: Dubai city-wide median price per square foot and sales volume

05 / 05

Heart Homes

Built for Heart Homes, Dubai

Data-driven real estate advisory for Dubai: every registered sale in the city, community by community, with the market pulse in one place.

The problem
An advisory firm needed the full public transaction record turned into something an advisor can put in front of a buyer, and kept current.
What Ragondin built
A data product more than a website: ingestion and normalisation of the full transaction record, then pricing, volume and trend views by community.

Outcome182k+ sales tracked · 264 communities · AED 571B covered

Our roleData engineering · Analytics · Web · Product

heart.homes ↗

More client work

KovataLiveteam training platform with attention verification · App Store
Smart Gout CareIn buildhealth tracking and AI meal analysis
TrinketIn buildauctions and provenance for collectibles, for Trinket Inc.

Plus equity tokenization, language-learning novels, computer vision for cancer detection, people detection and tracking, and earlier work. Ask about the archive ↗

04 Services

What you can hire us to do.

  1. 01

    Product development

    From idea to production. Product definition, UX, web and mobile development, backend, infrastructure and deployment, with one team accountable for the result.

  2. 02

    AI & automation

    Put AI into an actual business or product. Agents, local and on-device AI, RAG, computer vision, workflow automation and custom AI systems that hold up outside the demo.

  3. 03

    Complex software

    Fix or extend products that have outgrown their original stack. Architecture, integrations, scaling, major features and technical rebuilds.

  4. 04

    Hardware + software

    When the product doesn't stop at the screen. Robotics, sensors, edge computing, embedded AI and the companion applications around them.

  5. 05

    China product engineering

    Build technology that actually works inside China. WeChat mini-programs, local payments, Chinese infrastructure, hosting and localisation.

WebiOS & AndroidAI & local inferenceComputer visionBackend & infrastructurePayments & fintechBlockchainWeChat & ChinaHardware integrationProduct design

Every engagement is scoped on its own, around the actual problem. We don't sell fixed packages, and we'll tell you early if we're the wrong studio for it.

05 Products by Ragondin Dev

The same capability, applied to our own technology.

Ragondin Code and Ragondin AI are company products: built, owned and operated by the same team that works with our clients.

Ragondin Code: kanban board with cards moving from Created through Analyzing, Review, In Progress and Code Review to Done Ragondin Code: a card drawer showing the answered blocking question, the five-phase plan, and two code review findings

Product 01 Beta

Ragondin Code

AI-assisted software development platform

An AI-assisted kanban for teams who still write the code. Every card is picked up by an agent that reads the repo, plans the work, and reviews the branch when you're done.

The interesting part is where the agent runs. The harness is a local daemon on your own machine with your own keys, so source never leaves your hardware. Code review doesn't just read the diff: it drives the running app in a browser to check the change actually works. We run our own client work on it.

Developer tools · Local agents · Self-hosted · Browser-based validation · Automated release workflows

beta.ragondin.ai ↗
Ragondin Assistant: private on-device AI chat. No cloud servers, no accounts, works offline. Ragondin Recall: meeting recording and transcription running entirely on the device

Product 02 Live

Ragondin AI

Local and private AI ecosystem

A local AI runtime and a family of apps where the model runs on your own phone or computer. No cloud servers, no accounts, works offline.

Ragondin Assistant (private LLM chat), Ragondin Recall (meeting recording and transcription that never leaves the machine) and Mystic Ragondin (a BaZi companion with the model on the phone) all ship on the same runtime. It is the engineering discipline behind our on-device client work.

Local AI · On-device LLMs · Runtime · Phone & desktop apps · Privacy-first

On the App Store: Ragondin Assistant · Ragondin Recall · published by Ragondin Dev Inc.

ragondin.ai ↗ How we build on-device AI →

06 Why Ragondin

Why this is different from hiring an agency.

  1. 01

    Senior people actually build

    The people designing the architecture and writing the code are the people you talk to. Nothing gets handed down to juniors after you sign.

  2. 02

    Direct access to the technical team

    There is no account layer. The person you email is the person who scopes the project, and the people on the project are the ones engineering it.

  3. 03

    Small team, high leverage

    We stay deliberately small and take on a few projects at a time, so every engagement gets senior attention from the first conversation to production.

  4. 04

    End-to-end responsibility

    Product, engineering, infrastructure and deployment are handled together. Nothing falls into the gap between three different contractors.

  5. 05

    AI-assisted development tooling

    We build our own engineering systems, including Ragondin Code, and run our client work on them. A handful of people ship what usually takes a department.

07 How an engagement works

What happens after you contact us.

  1. 01

    Understand

    A conversation with the people who would do the work: what you're building, where it's stuck, and what has to be true for it to succeed.

  2. 02

    Scope

    We reduce the problem to what genuinely needs to exist, then plan and price around that. Most briefs get smaller. If we're the wrong studio, we say so here.

  3. 03

    Build

    Senior engineers design the architecture and write the code, in short cycles you can see running, with product, engineering and infrastructure handled together.

  4. 04

    Launch

    App stores, WeChat, cloud or on-device: we take it into production and make sure it holds under real load.

  5. 05

    Support

    We stay on for what comes after: monitoring, iteration, the next major feature, or a clean handover to your own team.

The Ragondin workshop: a team of ragondins building software and hardware
The workshop

08 About

Founder-led. Small on purpose.

Ragondin Dev is a product and engineering company. We build software, AI and connected products for other companies, usually taking responsibility from product definition through engineering and deployment.

We also build our own technology. Our two core products are Ragondin Code, our AI-assisted software development platform, and Ragondin AI, our local and private AI ecosystem.

The same team that builds our own products works directly with our clients, which makes us quite different from a traditional outsourcing agency. We stay small, senior and hands-on, and we normally work on projects where the technology itself is an important part of the business.

Senior people. Direct communication. Accountable delivery.

Have something difficult to build?

Tell us about it. If it's a fit, you'll get a real answer from the people who'd do the work. And if it isn't, we'll say so.

or email chloe@ragondin.dev