# An engineering studio, not an agency About FunnySoft builds AI and custom software for companies that want results in production, not consulting reports. ## Forward deployed, explained The term comes from engineering teams that work inside the client's company, next to the people doing the job. It is the opposite of the vendor who gathers requirements in a meeting and disappears for three months. We embed with your team, see the real process with our own eyes, and build the solution on the ground, with you. This model was born inside the world's biggest technology companies, and it is the fastest way to get AI working in a real business: because the problem is never just technology, it is the process, the data, and the people. And you cannot understand those from a distance. We are deliberately small. Every project has the studio's lead engineer working on it directly, from the first day to the last. ## Who is behind it **João Paulo Santos** · Founder and lead engineer Software engineer with more than 7 years in the Laravel ecosystem, now focused on AI systems in production. He is the AI Lead of Voltimum's AI platform, live in 16 European markets, where he builds multi-agent assistants over real data. He previously worked at Patchstack (WordPress security, vulnerability database) and built management systems from scratch for industry in the Leiria region. - AI Lead · Voltimum's AI platform (16 markets) - 7+ years in the Laravel ecosystem - Formerly Patchstack · software security - Co-founder of Apex Scout ## Open source Code anyone can inspect. That is how you evaluate an engineer. - **laramux**: A terminal UI for managing Laravel dev processes. Distributed via Homebrew, Cargo, apt, and dnf. - **scout-postgres**: A native Postgres full-text and trigram search engine for Laravel Scout, with no separate search service. - **laravel-ai-moonshot**: A Moonshot (Kimi) provider for the Laravel AI SDK: streaming, tool-calling, and thinking mode. ## How we work - **Production first**: Success is measured by the system running and being used by your team, not by delivering a document. - **No black boxes**: We explain what the AI does, with which data, and where the limits are. The code is yours. - **Close, in every sense**: From Leiria to the whole country and across Europe. On-site when needed, and always one message away. ## Want to see how this works in your company? A 30-minute call is enough to figure out together whether we are a fit. [Book a 30-minute call](https://calendar.app.google/KrJgD853rb7e59vP6) · --- FunnySoft · Forward Deployed Engineering · Leiria, Portugal