Simquat is a technology studio that builds digital tools with no frills.
Inspired by Kigumi, the art of wood joinery, what is taken away is just as important as what is kept. Having a landfill of features is distracting, and in the long term destroys the product itself. Software should be lightweight, fast, and built to last.
Design and engineering happen together, directly in the tools used to build. No heavy frameworks, no endless third-party dependencies, and no LLM-generated code. The whole product is crafted from start to finish.
AL0 is a smartphone environment for Android.
Built to remove all digital noise – notifications, popups, social media, blobs of colors and sounds – the interface is based on a small number of utilitarian text-first black and white UI elements, combined to implement the essential features of a mobile phone: telephone, calendar, clock, camera, torch, calculator.
Qualifier is a quality assurance tool for BIM – building industry models –.
The software was rebuilt from scratch to implement a precise, performant rule-checking engine paired with an intuitive user interface. Users can write tests and view results in real-time, directly on the 3D model. The backend was moved from a slow, bug-prone microservices architecture to a faster, reliable monolith on a modest machine.
I’m Simone Quattrocchi. I build tools independently, and I’ve engineered software for startups and agencies across Europe. I partner with focused entrepreneurs who know exactly what they want to build, with zero frills. In person in Zürich, or remotely worldwide.
Tell me at mail@simquat.com.