UK engineering practice · est. 2024

Engineering
after dark.
Production-grade by morning.

Night Owl IT builds private-by-design software and bespoke systems: a workday journal that answers to no one but you, AI pipelines that work unattended, and Salesforce engineering with enterprise habits baked in.

Meet WorkRecap → Meet the company
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Night Owl IT: horned owl perched on a branch silhouetted against a full moon, etched illustration
Vigilant · Quiet · Precise
01 / FEATURED PRODUCT

The first thing we're selling.

WorkRecap

Your day, remembered.

A private, local-only workday journal for Windows. It remembers what you worked on, transcribes on your own machine, and writes a daily summary only you can read, encrypted to your login, so not even an admin can see it. Reports to you, not your boss.

Local-only Encrypted to your login Offline AI option Windows
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WorkRecap's daily feed view: a timeline of the workday with a private summary.
02 / THE COMPANY

The work behind the name.

Night Owl IT is run by Theunis Jacobs, Lead Salesforce Engineer by day, deliberate builder by night. The name is honest: this is what gets made when the day job is finished and the room is quiet, and it now has its first public product on the way.

The common thread is rigour. Threats get named before they're designed around. Plans get written down before code does. Out-of-scope is a decision, not an oversight.

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03 / SERVICES

Five pillars, one practice.

Engagements scope from single tools to multi-month builds. Everything is delivered with documentation, a clear support model, and a written scope you can hand to a finance team.

01 / SALESFORCE

Salesforce Engineering

Senior-level Apex, LWC, Flow, and integration work for mid-market orgs that need engineering depth without the cost of a full hire.

  • Apex & LWC development
  • Integration architecture
  • AI inside Salesforce
02 / AGENTIC AI

Custom Tooling & Agentic AI

Bespoke pipelines wiring Claude, Claude Code, n8n, and custom C# services into systems that actually do work for you. Built to run, not to demo.

  • n8n workflow design
  • Multi-agent pipelines
  • Claude Code SDK integrations
03 / INFRASTRUCTURE

Trading & Quant Infrastructure

Engineering for retail algorithmic systems, scoped carefully and built FCA-aware. Sold as engineering rigour; not financial advice, not signals.

  • Bot architecture & risk layers
  • Broker API integration
  • Backtesting infrastructure
04 / PRODUCT SOFTWARE

Desktop Software & Local AI

Privacy-first Windows applications in the WorkRecap mould: on-device transcription and AI, encryption bound to the user's login, licensing infrastructure included.

  • Windows desktop apps (C# / .NET)
  • On-device AI & transcription
  • Licensing & activation
05 / AUTOMATION

Home & Small-Business Automation

Home Assistant integrations, voice assistants, IoT segmentation, Raspberry Pi satellites. For people who care that it stays local-first.

  • Home Assistant deployments
  • Voice assistant builds
  • IoT network segmentation
Full services & how engagements run →
04 / SELECTED WORK

A few things built lately.

Personal and exploratory projects that show the way we think about systems. Client work is under NDA.

PRODUCT / PRIVACY

WorkRecap · private workday journal

A Windows journal that transcribes your day on your own machine and writes a summary only you can read, encrypted to your login. The first product out of the lab.

VOICE / SECURITY

JEEVES · household voice assistant

Multi-room, locally-hosted, biometric step-up auth, TPM-bound console, signed tool catalogue. A home assistant designed by someone who assumed it would be attacked.

FINTECH / RISK

GoldBot · XAU/USD trading system

Seven independent risk layers, broker-side stop-losses, FCA-aware design. The engineering went into not losing money.

AUTHOR TOOLING

Multi-agent author's studio

An editorial staff for one human author: continuity checks, per-scene git commits, and drafting support for when you can describe a scene but not find the words.

SALESFORCE / WEB

Lightning Out 2.0 on Vercel

Salesforce LWCs embedded in a Next.js app with server-side OAuth and typed React wrappers, past where the docs run out.

Read the full case studies →

Got a problem that needs thinking about properly?

Email is the best way in. Every message is read by the engineer, and work is only taken on when it's genuinely the right fit.

theunisj@nightowlit.co.uk → Contact & support