TinkerTank

TinkerTank

Build. Design. Invest.

A small product studio in Bergen, Norway. We make complicated, repetitive and boring work simple. For startups, and for ourselves.

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Build.

Software and AI that do the heavy lifting.

We help startups and growing companies go from idea to a product that works in the real world. With more than 25 years of building online services, we step in wherever it's needed: as developers, architects, technical leaders or advisors.

AI is at the core of how we work. We build with Claude Code and other agentic tools every day, which lets a small team ship in weeks what used to take months. We also help companies do the same: finding the manual, repetitive work in their business and handing it over to AI.

We like hard problems best when they end up looking easy.

  • AI developmentAssistants, agents and AI features built into real products
  • AI automationWorkflows where AI reads, sorts, writes and acts, so people don't have to
  • AI-assisted developmentClaude Code and agentic coding, in our work and in your team
  • Interim CTO and advisoryTechnical direction, hiring and architecture decisions
  • Backend and APIsNode.js, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL, NoSQL and Postgres
  • Web applicationsReact frontends, admin tools and dashboards
  • Cloud and serverlessAzure, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and IoT
  • IntegrationsAPIs, webhooks and scheduled jobs that connect your systems

Recent work for Guru Finans AS and Waive AS.

Design.

Products people understand the first time they use them.

Good software starts with the people who will use it. Our UX and design work is led by Vera Tornes, an interaction designer with a bachelor's degree in Interaction Design from the University of Bergen. She turns fuzzy requirements into clear flows and interfaces, and tests them with real users before a line of production code is written.

Having design and development in the same small team means ideas go from sketch to working product without getting lost in handovers.

  • User researchInterviews, usability testing and insight you can act on
  • Interaction designUser flows, information structure and the details in between
  • UI design and prototypesFrom sketches to clickable, shippable screens
  • Design for AI productsMaking new kinds of interfaces feel familiar and trustworthy

UX work for Everviz and Guru Finans AS.

Invest.

We put our own time and money into products and startups we believe in.

Everything we learn from building our own services makes our client work better, and the other way around. Now and then we also invest as angels in early-stage startups we find interesting, often alongside hands-on help with product and technology.

Codehooks Backend for webhooks and automations

Codehooks gives developers a complete serverless backend in one deploy: a NoSQL database, key-value store, queues, cron jobs and REST APIs, ready in under five seconds from the command line. It handles the whole webhook lifecycle, from receiving Stripe, Shopify or GitHub events to processing, storing and delivering them. It's built to work just as well for AI coding agents as for people, and it has flat pricing with no per-request fees.

  • Deploys in seconds
  • Database and queues built in
  • Made for AI agents

Snill Business systems through conversation

Snill replaces the spreadsheet that runs your business with a real system. Describe how you work in plain language, and Snill builds the database, dashboards, workflows, user roles and API for you. It's made for consultancies, agencies, clinics, property managers and other service businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets but don't want a generic no-code tool. Data and AI processing stay in the EU, and it speaks more than 12 European languages.

  • No code needed
  • Hosted in the EU
  • Built around your process

restdb.io Online NoSQL database

Our first product: a simple cloud database with automatic REST APIs, a friendly data manager and server-side JavaScript hooks, used by developers around the world for more than a decade.

Talk.

Have something complicated that should be simple? Tell us about it.

[email protected] +47 92 49 23 29

Based in Bergen, Norway. Working everywhere. Find us on LinkedIn and X.