Cast Net Technology

Independent product lab / Hickory, North Carolina

Good software.
Connected
thinking.

We’re a small software and product development lab.
Exploring ideas, building products, and connecting the pieces.

Explore our work Explore our approach
Animated memory silk: interwoven sage threads moving within a steady ring.
Separate pieces. Shared purpose.
Software engineeringConnected systemsApplied AI

The practice

Make the complex
feel considered.

Useful software takes more than a clever feature. Architecture, interfaces, and the systems around them have to work together.

Design the foundation

Software
with structure.

Clear boundaries, understandable behavior, and interfaces that make the next step obvious. We care about how a system is built and how it feels to use.

Connect the pieces

Systems
that work together.

Applications, services, and physical devices each have a part to play. The work is in making their connections purposeful and their behavior visible.

Give intelligence a role

AI with
a useful purpose.

Relevant context, deliberate tool use, and human control. We explore AI as part of a larger system, shaped around what people need to accomplish.

Connected thinking / Shared context

Context changes
what comes next.

A useful system connects what it knows with who it serves and what it can do. For a household, a product, or a team, those connections turn isolated information into a helpful next step.

Draw a connection. See what it makes possible. Then follow your ideas into a fictional household in the VIMNORA living demo.

Let’s think together
Try it / Connect two ideasYour connection

Your connection can become someone else’s starting point.

Completed connections are shared automatically for the next visitor. Only the chosen ideas and simplified line are saved, with no name or message. How it works

Touch a circle. Draw to another. See what changes.

Draw between ideas, or tap them in sequence. Start a new line in an empty space. Keyboard: Tab, then Enter.

Choose your starting point

What could become more useful?

Connect People and Memory to explore an assistant that remembers preferences. Or find your own combination.

From an idea to everyday life

A changed mind. A memory that keeps up.

Follow a remembered preference into VIMNORA’s fictional household.

Try this connection in VIMNORA Interactive household simulation · No account needed

Enable JavaScript to explore and share connections.

How we think

Understand the need.
Build the thing.
Learn from use.

Start with a real problem. Make the decisions explicit. Put a working version in front of the people who will use it.

Our own product development keeps that loop close: architecture meets implementation, and implementation meets everyday use.

Meet Cast Net Technology

From the workshop

Ideas made
inspectable.

Product experiments, public source, and the engineering decisions behind the work.

Open-source context engine

The right context.
Less noise.

Mnemosyne retrieves and compresses local code and documents for language models. Its public repository makes the implementation available to inspect and build on.

Explore the public code Read about the engine

Product in development / VIMNORA™

See the working prototype

VIMNORA™ for households / Living demo

A whole life.
Connected.

Follow connected thinking into everyday life. Explore a fictional family’s day, trace the memories behind an answer, and try a change that waits for your approval.

Enter the living demo Fictional household · Interactive simulation · No account

Engineering, in the open

The thinking
behind the build.

All engineering notes
01 / Software integration

From a retrieval engine
to the tools developers use.

02 / Product engineering

Building both sides
of a compliance conversation.

03 / Retrieval & measurement

What useful context
actually costs.

Start a conversation

Small lab.
Shared curiosity.

We develop software products, explore connected systems, and share what we learn. We welcome conversations with people who want to use the products, collaborate on the work, or help shape what comes next.

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