Think it through.
Build to find out.
Company31 is an independent think tank and lab. It asks how people and technology can work well together, then tests each idea by building something small and useful, putting it into use, and writing up what it teaches.
Applied research · Open tools · Sydney, Australia
What is on this sheet
How the lab works
A think tank that builds. A working tool answers questions that an argument alone cannot, so thinking, building and learning share the same loop.
Ask a real question. Start from a difficulty people actually live with, and frame it as something that can be tested.
Build to find out. Make the smallest useful thing that could answer it. Building is how the thinking gets checked.
Learn in the open. Release it, watch what happens in use, and write it down. Findings go to the essays; the code goes in the drawer.
From the workbench
Each tool here began as a question. Can a security check speak plain English? Can notes outlive the app that made them? Can practice meet each learner at their level? Can a small daily moment make work lighter? Can booking software respect a practice’s roles? Can funding obligations be seen before they are due? Some are released and free, some are still in trial; each has its own scope and stage of development.
CyberSafe
Point it at a website you own and get a plain‑English health check: a 0–100 score, an A–F grade, and a prioritised list of fixes. Consent‑based, non‑intrusive and free, and it stays that way.
Check a site →Owly
Notes that stay yours. Owly keeps every note as plain Markdown in a folder you choose — no account, no subscription, no proprietary storage. Delete the app and your notes are still there, readable in any editor. Free for the Mac, and on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Now in preview on Windows 11.
Open the Owly page →Math Citizen
Math that grows with you. Math Citizen sets every puzzle at the edge of what you can do, from Level 1 to 50, and writes fresh story problems on the device with Apple Intelligence. No account, no ads, and nothing leaves the device. Free on the App Store.
Get it on the App Store → Open the Math Citizen page →Grinly
A smile a day, and a pause when you need one. Grinly brings one small card a day — a joke, a kind note, a little wonder — and a minute or two to reset when work gets heavy. It never asks how you feel, and nothing leaves the device. Free on the App Store.
Get it on the App Store → Open the Grinly page →Slotello
Online booking and practice admin for allied health. Slotello gives each practice a booking page in its own colours, takes payment at booking, sends the reminders, and keeps the client records — with each person seeing only what their role needs. Free for founding practices during the beta.
Open the Slotello page →Proofline
For anyone holding a grant or funding agreement with a report due. Proofline tracks the obligations you record from your funding agreement and shows which ones have evidence behind them, which do not, and how exposed you are — before the acquittal deadline, not the week after.
Ask about the prototype →Everything still in pencil
Experiments, prototypes and small tools live at c31labs, left open on purpose. The repositories put the thinking behind the builds out for inspection, reuse and further work.
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Where the lab thinks out loud: essays on technology, change and applied AI — and what building things teaches about all three. The thinking continues on the next sheet.
Sheet 2 of 2 manuelre.com ↗ Essays and notes · Manuel ReIf there is something worth exploring.
A question you keep turning over, a reply to an essay, a difficulty that deserves a closer look, or an idea for an experiment. Company31 is independent and self-directed, and now and then explores an open question together with others. Every message gets a personal reply.
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