Colin Wirz

01 Founder / builder / systems thinker

Frustrations
worth solving.

Software products, companies, games and trading systems. I follow curiosity until something useful exists.

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years of building15+
team across 4 countries7
startups supported20+

02 Selected work

Three things that made it out of my head.

Different problems. Same method: understand the expensive bit, build the smallest useful answer, then keep improving it.

01 / COMPANY

Software agency + AI consultancy

Pyango

My answer to expensive software frustration: one small international team that can design, build, deploy and maintain the whole product.

Open project
people7
countries4
years building15+

FROM QUESTION
TO RUNNING PRODUCT

02 / GAME

Private multiplayer word game

Word
Hearth

A browser game for 1–6 people with invite links, an authoritative game server and a board that works from phone to desktop.

Open project
WORDAHEARTH
03 / SYSTEM

Research + execution platform

Trading
platform

A full research-to-paper-trading system: strategies face walk-forward tests, real market data and live monitoring before they earn trust.

See the research
BTC-PERP / PAPERLIVE

RESEARCHBACKTESTPAPERMONITOR

03 Now

What I am working on now.

A manually updated snapshot. These are active questions and experiments, not polished product claims.

Updated August 2026
01

Pyango

Testing an AI-assisted acquisition approach built around finding expensive operational problems before proposing software.

02

Juraguard

An experiment in private, self-hostable MCP infrastructure: one gateway, server-side credentials and a compact tool surface.

03

Personal Agent

A voice-first iPhone experiment with durable context, connected tools and explicit approval before actions that change things.

04

Trading validation

Making strategies survive fees, changing market regimes and walk-forward tests before paper trading earns any trust.

05

Home Assistant MCP

Building an MCP integration so my agent can connect to Home Assistant and control my house, with safety boundaries.

04 Small things

Experiments, not a product parade.

Some became useful. Some are still questions. Failed and discarded work belongs here too.

Active experiment

Juraguard

Private MCP infrastructure without handing every service credential to every client.

Active experiment

Personal Agent

Voice, memory, tools and native approval on iOS.

Active experiment

Home Assistant MCP

A local-first agent interface for controlling my house.

Built experiment

GitLab Todo Menubar

A small native macOS app for work notifications.

Built experiment

Treadmill Controller

Bluetooth interval control for my treadmill using FTMS.

Ongoing validation

Trading / alpha research

A graveyard and proving ground for signals, including the ones that fail.

05 How I work

Start with the expensive problem.

AI makes software faster to produce. Direction, evidence and responsibility still decide whether it is worth producing.

  1. 01

    Find the cost

    Start with a concrete operational problem and the person who owns its consequence.

  2. 02

    Validate first

    Check that the pain is real and measurable before becoming attached to a solution.

  3. 03

    Build the smallest proof

    Make the cheapest useful thing that can answer the important question.

  4. 04

    Continue on evidence

    Measure what happened. Improve, stop or discard it. AI assists; people direct, review and approve.

Open the Research Bench

06 Latest article

How I connect MailMate invitations to Google Calendar

My mail and calendar live in different places. I built a small bridge for invitations, not an automatic RSVP machine.

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07 Contact

Something on your mind?

If you want to talk software, AI workflows, trading systems, or a project you are building, send me a note.

cwirz@pyango.ch

08 My Mac mail setup

MailMate, my pick for the best Mac mail app.

I use MailMate for email and BusyCal for my Google calendar. A small local bridge puts new meeting invitations on the calendar without giving Google my mail or answering invitations for me.