An Irish studio. Named after a river.
Leeside Labs Limited is an Irish-registered, tax-resident company based in Cork. The name comes from the River Lee, which runs through the city and gives Cork people their name — we’re “Leesiders”.
Why we exist
Software for people who can’t afford to get it wrong.
The software available to specialists splits roughly in two. On one side, enterprise platforms built for firms with dedicated IT teams and six-figure budgets. On the other, generic productivity tools that treat every profession the same.
Solo practitioners and small teams sit in the middle — underserved by both. They work long days, carry the administrative load themselves, and pay a real cost when the tools they rely on don’t understand the shape of their work.
We started Leeside Labs to build software for that middle. Tools that understand the specifics. Tools that are quiet, careful, and made to last.
Team
Two people, two views of the same problem.
We pair deep engineering with someone who actually does the job our software is for. That pairing shapes every decision — from which features we build to which ones we deliberately leave out.
James Harnedy
Co-founder · Engineering
Software engineer from Cork with three decades of experience, including VP Engineering roles at AI platforms and industrial companies.
Cindy Zoons
Co-founder · Practice
Legal assistant based in Cork. Brings the practical insight into documentation workflows and clerk-room operations that the software is built around.
How we work
A few quiet principles.
- 01
Specialist before general
We build for a specific profession, not a vague market segment. Generic tools are someone else’s job.
- 02
EU-only by default
Customer data stays in the EU. Standard Contractual Clauses where transfers are unavoidable. The Data Protection Commission (Ireland) is our supervisory authority.
- 03
Owned, not flipped
We’re here to operate the products we make. We’re not a venture vehicle. We’re a studio with customers we plan to keep.
- 04
Small surface, careful edges
We’d rather do five things well than fifty things weakly. We’re comfortable saying no to features.
Want to see what we’ve been working on?
clerk&is our first product — currently in closed testing with a small group of Irish legal professionals.