Ian Samonte — AI, apps & softwarethat feel alive.
Design, code and AI automation for businesses in the Philippines and worldwide — and remote flooring takeoffs & BoQs for Australian projects.
Five apps, out in the wild.
Design, technology & flooring estimation
AI and software for your business. Flooring estimation for Australia.
Work directly with Ian Samonte for AI automation, AI agents, SaaS development, and web and mobile apps. Most of my AI and software clients are local businesses in the Philippines, and these services are available to clients worldwide.
My flooring estimation service focuses on Australian projects, with remote quantity takeoffs and bills of quantities. Choose a service to see the scope and what to send for a project enquiry.
Meet your remote collaborator: Ian Samonte on LinkedIn.
TradingAgents
An automated trading desk built with AI — re-centering spot grids and momentum engines that place their own orders on Hyperliquid, and a dashboard that reads every fill straight off the chain rather than from a backtest. New strategies trade on paper until they clear a promotion gate.
Open the live desk↗The live desk on a phone: a grid round-trip lands, realized P&L ticks up, and the new fill tops the trade list. Every number comes off the chain, refreshed every 30 seconds.
ThirstyPOS
A POS for shake, milk tea and coffee shops. The cashier taps the order, and a sticker prints for every cup with the drink and the customer’s name — so the right drink goes to the right person. Runs on a cheap Android phone and a Bluetooth sticker printer, and keeps selling when the internet is down.
The cashier app: tap the drink, pick size, sugar and ice, type the name, approve — and a sticker prints for every cup off the Bluetooth printer.
MeasureSquareTakeoffs
Flooring takeoffs and bills of quantity for Australian residential and commercial jobs. Every cut is allocated into the roll before anyone orders a metre — same dye lot, seams where they belong, and the offcut kept small on purpose.
Plans and specs read against the finishes schedule and the builder’s addenda, so the quantities trace back to a drawing rather than to an assumption. Material saved and hours saved are the same saving.
Send your project→Five rooms cut from one roll, one dye lot. Nesting the hall and stair side by side instead of taking two full-width drops is what turns 12.4% waste into 3.8%.
Workpass
Payroll for small Philippine businesses of 1 to 15 people. Enter the hours and Workpass does the rest — SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, withholding tax, overtime, late and holiday pay, worked out every cutoff.
Staff clock in with a selfie and their location, checked on the server. Before payroll runs it lists what is wrong and how to fix it, then releases payslips straight to each person’s phone.
See Workpass↗Clock in from the staff app — selfie, face match, then the location checked against the branch pin. The hours it records are the hours payroll pays.
SpaFlow
A spa management platform for Philippine spas — the front desk, the therapists, the money and the branches in one app. Built for and running at Thai Royale Spa Bohol, where it is exclusive today.
- —Front desk — walk-ins, bookings, service assignment
- —Checkout — split payments, gift certificates, hotel billing
- —Therapists — clock-in, commissions, incentives, payroll
- —Back office — inventory, expenses, multi-branch reports
Run a spa and want SpaFlow for your branches? Get in touch and we’ll set it up for you.
Bring SpaFlow to your spa→A guest ready to bill, paid part GCash and part cash, and the on-call therapist’s commission worked out the moment it settles — with the hot stone add-on kept out of the base.
Have a project in mind?Let’s build it.
A website, an internal tool, an AI-powered workflow, or a product that doesn’t exist yet — I work with founders and businesses to design, build and launch the thing, from the first sketch to something people can actually use.
Independent designer & developer. Available for select projects, consulting and collaborations.
Websites & web apps
Fast, modern sites and custom web applications built around how the business actually runs — not around a template.
AI & automation
Agents, workflow automation, document processing, data extraction and integrations that take the repetitive work off people.
Business & internal systems
Dashboards, POS, databases and reporting tools shaped to an existing operation instead of forcing it into someone else’s SaaS.
Product & MVP
An idea taken from concept to prototype to a working MVP that real users can put their hands on.
Flooring takeoff & BoQ — AU
MeasureSquare takeoffs and bills of quantity for Australian residential and commercial jobs — plans and specs read against the finishes schedule and addenda, and now with the help of AI.
Design + technology
One person who decides how it should look and how it should work — so the two never argue with each other.
We’re probably a good fit if…
- —You have a business problem you want solved with technology.
- —You have an idea but need someone to actually build it.
- —You want a repetitive process automated.
- —You need a custom tool rather than another off-the-shelf SaaS.
- —You’re a flooring contractor or builder who needs takeoffs and BoQs measured properly.
- —You want one person who can work across design, development, AI and business.
- ThirstyPOSCup-sticker POS for drink shops↗
- EverstreamWater delivery · Bohol
- WorkpassPayroll for small teams↗
- SpaFlowSpa management SaaS↗
- TradingAgentsAutomated trading desk · live↗
Tell me what you’re trying to build.
What you’re trying to accomplish, what isn’t working, or what you wish existed. We can figure out the solution together.
Start a conversation→No formal brief required. Currently accepting select projects and collaborations.