Organic Software built in Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
Organic Software grows from the real need.
HTC is a research and development company based in Ireland.
We study the how: how people, places and operations actually work. Then we build software around what is genuinely needed. The software solution grows out of the desired outcome. That is what we mean by Organic Software.
Traditional software often digitises the old manual process: workflows, spreadsheets, forms, websites, dashboards, portals. Copy-and-paste with a nicer interface. In your organisation that creates technical debt, operational drag and complexity where there should be clarity.
HTC starts earlier.
HTC research the real situation, the desired outcome, and the human behaviour around it. Then we design the solution you want from there. Technology should work for you and do most of the work.
Everything is developed right here in Ireland. We use modern AI leverage for efficiency — delivering within budget, without waste. This makes Organic Software far more economical than the traditional path.
Products
Mapclick
MAP: Memory Awareness Point. Mapclick turns ordinary data that relates to a physical point or object into a rich, evolving, multi-layered data structure that is much more like an organism than a spreadsheet. Points become self-aware using agentic abilities to understand themselves. It's much easier to understand something like traffic or a tree when you can simply talk to it.
Swords Live
The first live local public research environment built on Mapclick, applying live maps, local data and civic context to Swords, Co. Dublin. Swords Live continuously collects public data streams like transport, weather, air quality, trees, litter, planning, house sales, to name a few, and builds stories about each thing. You can actually talk to the trees in Swords.
Fieldnotes
An early AI research product for turning writing, notes and accumulated thinking into usable memory. Fieldnotes uses AI embedding to extract meaning from original content. It then uses the same process to extract meaning from the user's query and uses a semantic search to surface original blog articles that might be relevant to the user.
Navigator
An operational clarity product for owner-operators. A documented process developed over 20+ years of operating a global business.
Workshop
A custom software build product for practical systems, apps, and AI-enabled tools. We use modern AI leverage to remove waste from the build process — faster research, faster prototyping, faster iteration, and less time spent recreating standard software plumbing.
The harder XYZs.
HTC are less interested in the everyday ABCs of software.
We are interested in the harder XYZs: the strange, specific, unresolved problems where the real value is still hidden.