Introducing Polycorp

Creating your future favourite app

Polycorp is an after-hours product studio turning ambitious side projects into real products.

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London

After hours

After hours is where the useful ideas survive.

On method

No board deck. No growth theatre. Just careful products, built properly.

Not a VC-backed studio. Not an agency. A focused product workshop built around taste, independence, and technology that earns its place.

Log

  1. 2026 · 06Reservations open for the first batch of Arq computers.
  2. 2026 · 01Basefund is scoped and built - a shared financial surface for the household. Introducing Basefund
  3. 2025 · 11The idea for Arq lands - a home computer for the AI era. Product 01 begins.
  4. 2023 - 26Ideas developed quietly after hours. Built, tested, shelved - nothing published.
  5. 2023 · 06Polycorp Ltd registered. After hours, made official.

Product 01 · In development

Arq

Your digital life is rented. It shouldn’t be.

Arq is a home computer for the AI era - a single piece of hardware that replaces monthly subscriptions with a digital home that belongs to you.

Fig. 1 - Arq, first unit. Photographed after hours.

arq.house ↗The cloud, made personal

Rented

  • Monthly subscriptions
  • Your data on someone else’s computer
  • Gone when you stop paying

Owned

  • One device, paid once
  • Your data, at home
  • Yours to keep
StorageYour files and backups, on disks you own
CPU + memoryA home server quiet enough for the living room
Local AIIntelligence that runs in the house, not the cloud
MediaHousehold photos, video and archives in one place
AppsSelf-hosted, with no monthly subscriptions
OwnershipA digital home that belongs to you

Product 02 · Live

Basefund

Most money apps want to judge you. This one just shows you.

Basefund is a shared financial surface for your household - a clear, neutral view of income, bills and what is left, planned from one place and rolled forward month to month.

basefund.uk ↗Money, seen plainly

Months are snapshots.
The plan rolls forward. Adjust when life changes.
One household, one view.
Invite a partner. Plan from the same surface.
Income, committed, flex.
What comes in, what is fixed, and what can move.
Adjust, don’t judge.
Plans change. That is the point.
IncomeWhat comes in, aligned to payday
CommittedRent, bills and the fixed monthly load
FlexThe spending that can move month to month
Annual billsThe once-a-year hits, spread across the year
HouseholdOne shared view - invite a partner
SnapshotsEach month captured as the plan rolls forward

Operating principles

  1. Own the stack.01From silicon to interface. No rented foundations.
  2. Make it legible.02If it can’t be read, it can’t be trusted.
  3. No rented memories.03Your photos and files should outlive any company.
  4. Beautiful is a feature.04Care is visible - and it is also functional.
  5. Quiet software wins.05The best tools disappear into the work.