Lindeman Technologies, a family engineering firm
In the summer of 2026 my brother and I started Lindeman Technologies AS, a family-held Norwegian firm doing applied AI and custom engineering. Client work pays for it, and two products have come out of it so far: Myntos, accounting software developed in the open, and Løynd, a private AI service running on hardware we own.
Why start one
Most of what I had built until then lived in other people's repositories, under other people's roadmaps, or in a folder on my own machine. A company is the thing that sits in between: work that has to hold up for someone who is paying for it, but where the architecture, the stack and the standard are ours to set. The firm is family-held, and the engineering is done by two brothers, my brother Nicolai and me.
The client list is deliberately short. The premise the firm is built on is that most software problems are not solved by adding more tools, they are solved by someone taking the time to understand the problem completely, and that only works if you are not spread across a dozen accounts at once.
What we do
- Artificial intelligence: LLM applications, retrieval systems, and the evaluation frameworks that tell you whether any of it actually works.
- Data and backend: pipelines, APIs and infrastructure, with sound schemas and honest error handling.
- Automation: internal tools, system integrations, and the workflow surgery that removes a manual step permanently.
- 3D modelling and production: CAD, visualisation and fabrication drawings, the part of my background that came from building 3D printers rather than training models.
- Advisory: technical due diligence, architecture review, and prototypes built to answer a specific question.
The products
Myntos is a Norwegian accounting program built on the SAF-T financial data model from the ground up, filing the skattemelding, næringsspesifikasjon and MVA-melding through Skatteetaten's APIs. The source is public, on the argument that software holding your books and your identity should be something you can read.
Løynd is a private AI service. The models are open-source ones we run ourselves, on machines we own, physically in Norway. Nothing is written to disk unless the owner asks for it, and prompts never transit a third party. Myntos uses it to read categories off an uploaded invoice, which is exactly the case that rules out sending the document to a foreign API.
How we work
Understand the problem first, then write the smallest amount of software that solves it. Working software in weeks rather than slideware in months, and the result has to be maintainable by the client's own team after we step back. That last constraint is the one that shapes the code: anything clever enough that only its author can maintain it is a liability we have handed to someone else.