About the studio

We make software
worth keeping.

Stoneward is an independent software venture studio. We don't chase trends or quick exits — we build products people pay for, operate them like real businesses, and hold them for the long term.

Most software gets built to be sold. Ours gets built to be kept.

That one difference shapes everything else.

We're not chasing an acquisition or a funding headline. We find industries still running on spreadsheets and WhatsApp, build the software they've been missing, and stick around to run it.

LocaSign is our SaaS platform for car-rental agencies in Morocco and France. Orion is our credit-decisioning product for lending brokers. Dyafa is a property-management system for riads. Cadence is our cashflow app for running the business itself — with AI forecasting built in.

Three different industries, one obsession: get the details right, then stay long enough for them to compound.

How we work

From idea to operating business.

01 — VALIDATE

Find a real problem

We look for industries running on spreadsheets, paper and WhatsApp — where good software is a step change, not a nice-to-have.

02 — BUILD

Ship the product

One team designs and engineers the whole stack — web, mobile and infrastructure — with AI built into the products from the start.

03 — OPERATE

Run the company

Onboarding, support, billing, compliance and growth. We treat each product as the business it is, not a side project.

04 — COMPOUND

Own it for years

We reinvest, refine and hold. Long-term ownership keeps incentives honest and quality high.

Principles

What we won't bend on.

01

Own for the long term

We build companies we intend to keep. Long-term ownership improves every decision — what we ship, how we spend, and who we serve.

02

Revenue, not vanity

We measure progress in paying customers and durable margins. A business that pays for itself can be built honestly and run forever.

03

Build the boring infrastructure

Contracts, signatures, billing, audit trails, compliance. The unglamorous parts are where trust is earned — with customers, banks and partners.

04

AI with judgement

We use AI where it genuinely helps — scoring, automation, copilots — and we keep humans accountable for the decisions that matter.

Built with AI

AI that does real work.

It scores credit in Orion, handles documents in LocaSign, and powers the forecasts in Cadence — practical intelligence our customers actually feel.

See it in the products

AI scoring & decisioning

Models that turn documents and data into explainable scores and recommendations.

Document intelligence

Extraction, generation and verification — so paperwork stops being the bottleneck.

Operator copilots

Assistants that help our teams and customers move faster, with the right context.

Modern, secure stack

Built on infrastructure that's ready for production, audits and scale from day one.