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Vol. IV The index

Ventures.

A directory of what Inspire Synergy has built. We list current ventures with the detail you would expect, and we treat the eighteen years of prior work as chapters — read them as context, not as a sales pitch.

Active

In the studio now.

  • Quantitative Research

    A multi-year research partnership with an institutional asset manager. Systematic signal generation and engineering at scale. Bilateral, governed by NDA.

    2021 — Active

  • Stealth venture

    A new software venture in early build. We announce it the day it can take a customer.

    2026 — Building

Chapters

What came before.

  1. Vol. I
    2008 — 2013

    Digital marketing & e-commerce

    Inspire Synergy began as a Google AdWords Certified Partner running paid-media campaigns and SEM training for Hong Kong businesses. The company was admitted to Hong Kong Science Park’s incubation programme — the incubation project itself became Cartforge, our hosted e-commerce platform — and later remained at the park as a tenant. Over the next five years it shipped a small portfolio of software products under the umbrella, including Cartforge, Inspiroid (an analytics SaaS for online merchants), RailsAnt (a Rails consulting practice), CubicApp, and several smaller experiments.

  2. Vol. II
    2014 — 2020

    Enterprise content management

    The company pivoted to enterprise software, becoming a reseller and systems integrator for document management and OCR products — ABBYY, Hyland OnBase, SharePoint, Topaz. The customer list was small and institutional; the work was profitable and never publicly marketed.

  3. Vol. III
    2021 — 2025

    The quiet years

    Public-facing operations wound down. Inspire Synergy continued to exist as the legal vehicle for a multi-year quantitative research engagement with an institutional asset manager. Nothing was advertised; almost nothing was said.

A note on this list

We list current ventures by name; we summarise prior work by era. A full enumeration of every product Inspire Synergy has shipped over eighteen years would be longer than it would be useful — and a few of those products are no longer ours to talk about in detail.

Where a past venture matters to a current conversation, we are happy to share more privately. Email below.

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