Senior judgment, multiplied.

Loam is a founder-led software house in Bratislava. We pair twenty years of shipping software with AI agents, so a small team can build what used to take a large one.

Why Loam

Loam is the soil gardeners hope for: a balanced mix of sand, silt and clay that holds water without getting waterlogged and lets roots go deep. Nothing in it is exotic. It works because the proportions are right.

That's how we think about software teams. Product sense, design and engineering in the right balance, on top of a deep layer of experience. AI agents are the newest ingredient. They make everything grow faster, but only in good ground.

Michal Ferák

Founder & principal engineer

Michal has designed and built software for more than twenty years: storefronts for publishers, platforms for composers, clinical data systems, tools for the authorities and, more recently, a design system and accessibility practice for Slovakia's largest bookseller.

He works across the whole stack, from database design to Figma, and from PHP and TypeScript to Swift and SwiftUI. Loam is where that range meets AI: the workflow he uses to build and run six apps of his own is the one he brings to client projects.

  1. Before 2013

    Independent design and development

    Web and mobile projects for agencies across the EU and the US. The start of a 70+ project track record.

  2. 2013 – 2015

    Full-stack development, Sven Creative

    A multi-tenant restaurant ordering platform with loyalty, geo-verification and POS integrations.

  3. 2015 – 2020

    Development and project management, Altamira Softworks

    Universal Edition's global storefront, the Scodo publishing platform, healthcare and public-sector systems.

  4. 2020 – now

    Full-stack engineering and design, Martinus

    Company-wide design system, accessibility, conversion work and an in-store kiosk.

  5. 2025 – now

    Loam s. r. o.

    Our own apps on the App Store, client work, and an AI-native way of delivering both.

How we work

  • People decide, agents execute

    AI writes a lot of our code. A person with context reviews every change and owns every decision.

  • Ship real things

    A working prototype beats a perfect plan. We get software into hands early and improve it from there.

  • Private by default

    Our apps collect as little as possible and run AI on the device when they can. We bring the same instinct to client work.

  • Accessible by default

    Keyboard, screen reader, contrast and zoom are part of done, not a later phase.

What we run

  • journeybot

    iPhone, iPad, Mac

    A trip planner for iPhone, iPad and Mac that builds a packing list for the real destination, dates and plans, generated on-device with Apple Intelligence.

  • Tama

    iPhone, iPad

    A matcha tracker for iPhone and iPad that keeps your tins, recipes, brewing history and tasting notes together, so you learn what you like.

  • Dami

    iPhone

    A fast currency converter for iPhone that keeps working offline, understands quick sums and puts a full calculator in a Home Screen widget.

  • Timo

    iPhone

    A world clock and time zone app for iPhone that pairs cities side by side, works out the difference for you and colours each card by time of day.

  • Hotspot Meter

    Mac

    A macOS menu bar app that counts every megabyte your Mac uses on every network, with live speeds, per-network history and alerts before you hit your cap.

  • Kahudo

    iPhone

    A cosmic tile strategy puzzle for iPhone, built on poker hands and dice combinations. Free to play, fully offline, no ads.

Company at a glance

For accelerators, startup programmes, partners and procurement teams. If you need something that isn't here, email hello@loam.sk.

Legal name
Loam s. r. o.
Registered office
Zhorínska 28, 841 03 Bratislava, Slovakia
Company ID (IČO)
57146454
VAT ID
SK2122582264
Commercial register
District Court Žilina, section Sro, file no. 88443/L
Founder
Michal Ferák
Business model
Client services and our own software products
Products
6 apps live on the App Store, for iPhone, iPad and Mac
Clients
Companies across the EU and the US, from publishers to national retailers
Working languages
English, Slovak, Czech

Where we're going

We're building Loam on two layers that feed each other. Client work keeps us close to real problems in e-commerce, publishing and product teams. Our own products let us test new technology, like on-device AI, in public, with real users and real App Store reviews.

The bet behind both is the same: a small, senior team working with AI agents can deliver software at a quality and pace that used to need a much larger organisation. We're growing a portfolio of focused, privacy-first products on that model, and a delivery practice that makes it available to clients.

We're open to startup programmes, pilot customers and partners who want to grow that with us. Get in touch.