Independent minds. Intelligent technology. Ideas worth building.
Soul Surfer builds intelligent software for real-world problems, giving independent businesses and individuals access to technology traditionally reserved for larger organizations.
Our philosophy
A soul surfer rides for the love of the wave, not the trophy. We build software the same way: choose problems worth solving, enjoy the work, and leave people better off.
We think for ourselves, choose our own projects and stand with the independents.
The problem comes first. Profit keeps us building, but it is not the point.
Big-company tools in small-business hands. Technology made for the people who use it.
Our platforms
Enter once. Publish everywhere.
A grassroots publishing and communications network that connects independent businesses and community organizations with the residents and visitors around them.
Meet Little Lion →
Smarter shifts. Fairer tips. Better operations.
Integrated software for independent restaurants, bars and cafés. Less administration, fairer tips and a tighter shift.
Meet LOLO → Financial Intelligence PlatformResearch into financial markets and machine learning for individual investors. On hold pending resources and funding.
About Small Axe →The Laboratory
Our Machine Learning Laboratory develops the intelligence and the reusable engines underneath every platform. Build a block once, then use it wherever it helps.
A two-year research initiative into practical AI for small businesses.
Approved business knowledge, made easy to find and use through AI-assisted retrieval.
Publishing, fair allocation, payments and more, each designed to serve many applications.
Research into building, training and evaluating models, and software that adapts.
The Incubator
Research produces reusable engines. Each engine can grow in more than one direction, depending on where it proves useful.
Our story
Founder Scott McArthur spent 26 years as an entrepreneur in hospitality. Our first software came from problems he met running restaurants: a tip-distribution app that grew into LOLO. The hospitality tradition of welcoming and connecting people inspired Little Lion.
Connect
Partners, researchers, developers and independent businesses: if you have a problem worth solving, we would like to hear about it.
Visitors to the lab
We are a fiercely independent software innovation company on Vancouver's North Shore, British Columbia, founded in 2024. We build intelligent software platforms, carry out applied research and create reusable technology engines for independent businesses and individuals.
Little Lion is a Community Intelligence Platform for local businesses, community organizations, residents and visitors. LOLO is a Hospitality Intelligence Platform for independent restaurants, bars and cafés. Small Axe is a financial technology initiative for individual investors.
Not yet. Little Lion and LOLO are in development, and Small Axe is on hold pending resources and funding. Get in touch if you would like to hear when that changes.
Our Machine Learning Laboratory develops the intelligence and the reusable engines underneath every platform: AI tools research, the Knowledge Vault and applied machine learning.
Email soulsurfersoftware@gmail.com and a real person will get back to you. Partners already working with us can use the Partner Center.