AI Companion Apps
AI companion products for nonprofits working in health, parenting, care, and support. Built around chat, onboarding, memory, and trusted content.
Niall
Forrest.
I design and build software.
Across AI, products, systems, and interfaces.
I make useful digital things, from the interface down to the systems underneath.
Most software is forgettable. I'm interested in the kind that isn't — useful, clear, and made with purpose.
Work Selected
Selected
work.
A mix of AI products, nonprofit platforms, cultural websites, and digital systems. Built for organisations with real audiences, real constraints, and things that need to work.
Whitelabel AI Platform
An AI platform for nonprofits, combining retrieval, configurable product flows, and embedded donation and membership experiences.
Banana Block
A fast, events-led website for one of Belfast's leading cultural venues, built around live programming, venue hire, tenants, and mobile discovery.
Cronlet.dev
Scheduling infrastructure for AI agents, giving them the ability to wait, resume, repeat, and act over time.
Comkit
An empathic communication toolkit for families, communities, agencies, and representatives responding to heightened suicide concern.
Net Impact
A redesigned website for a 100,000+ member nonprofit network, improving structure, clarity, and digital presence.
Boundary London
A clean, editorial website for an independent boutique model agency, designed to keep the talent front and centre.
About
I build product,
I build product,
end to end.
I'm a software engineer and designer.
My work moves between code, interface, product thinking, and AI. I like building things that are useful, clear, and a little opinionated.
Most projects start loose: an idea, a problem, a messy workflow, a half-formed product. I help shape them into something real.
- Working with
- Founders, studios, and product teams
- Focus
- Product, design, engineering, AI
- Stack
- Astro, Lit, TypeScript, Swift, Python, React Native — and whatever fits the job
- Location
- Ireland / UK / Remote
Capabilities.
Things I can help with. Most projects pull on a few of these at once — the interesting work usually sits between them.
- 01
AI products
Assistants, RAG, workflows, prototypes, and model-powered features.
- 02
Full-stack builds
Web apps, APIs, databases, integrations, and production systems.
- 03
Mobile apps
React Native and Expo apps, from onboarding to release.
- 04
Product design
Flows, interfaces, prototypes, and the shape of the thing.
- 05
Design systems
Components, patterns, standards, and documentation.
- 06
Brand & web
Websites, landing pages, visual systems, and digital identities.
Contact
Send the
Send the
messy bit.
The half-formed ideas, the workflows nobody's untangled yet, the product that almost works but doesn't quite. Open to good projects with decent people.