Software that thinks, and hardware that answers back.
Damon Dynamics is an AI and software engineering studio in West Yorkshire. We build assistants grounded in your own documents, web apps that install like native ones, and the occasional robot.
WAITWELL · LIVEBENEFITS ASSISTANT · IN DEVPROJECT TARS · BUILDING
Based in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Working with clients across the UK.
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>Retrieval engine
>Language model routing
>Edge functions · 6 deployed
>WaitWell PWA · serving
>Benefits retrieval index [ 211 chunks ]
>TARS voice stack [ phase 1 ]
>Awaiting brief
What we build
Four kinds of work, all of it shipped as software you can run, not slide decks.
AI assistants and retrieval
Assistants that answer from your documents, policies or website and show where each answer came from. Vector search keeps answers grounded in what you actually wrote.
AI-powered web apps
Progressive web apps that install on any phone or desktop straight from the browser. React front ends, Supabase backends, FastAPI services where the AI work needs them.
Automation and pipelines
Multi-step workflows that research, draft, wait for someone to approve, then publish or report. Built on open tools and plain APIs so nothing locks you in.
Data, dashboards and models
Turn spreadsheets and databases into live dashboards, reports and classification models people can act on, with the numbers explained.
Our own products, built on the same stack we use for client work. One is live, two are in the open.
LIVE · IN PUBLIC BETAHEALTH · PWA · SUPABASE
WaitWell
A companion app for anyone stuck on an NHS waiting list. It turns a long, silent wait into something you can track and prepare for, instead of something that just happens to you.
Daily tracking for pain, mobility, mood and sleep, with trends you can show a clinician
An AI coach that reads your own logs and writes a summary for your appointment
Photograph a hospital letter and get it explained in plain English
Verified NHS guidance links, and installs to your home screen like a native app
IN DEVELOPMENT · RETRIEVAL BUILTGOV.UK · RAG · FASTAPI
Benefits assistant
Ask a plain question about PIP or Universal Credit and get a plain answer, with the exact gov.uk paragraph it came from sitting underneath it. It points you at the official guidance rather than pretending to be an adviser, and it says so when the guidance does not cover your question.
Fifty three sections of gov.uk guidance, pulled through the official Content API
Vector search over the guidance, so questions match meaning rather than keywords
Every answer carries its source, and refuses to guess when there is no source
Python and FastAPI behind it, with a web front end to follow
COMING SOON · PHASE 1 IN BUILDRASPBERRY PI 5 · VOICE · OPEN BUILD
Project TARS
A companion robot built in the open, one evening at a time. Phase one has a single goal: give him a voice. A Raspberry Pi 5, a microphone, a speaker and a small display, running a speech stack that listens, thinks and answers out loud with a personality of his own.
Everything after that is earned. Eyes come next, then motors, then the part where he moves under his own power. The whole build is filmed and posted as it happens, mistakes included.
Raspberry Pi 5 with active cooling and the official 27W supply
USB speakerphone for far-field listening and clean playback
Pimoroni Display HAT Mini over the 40-pin header for his face
Speech in, language model in the middle, speech out, with a voice tuned to sound like him
Phase 1 · Voice. He listens, answers and holds a conversation
Phase 2 · Vision. A camera, so he can see who he is talking to
Phase 3 · Motion. Motors, a body, and the first steps
Phase 4 · Out of the workshop, into the world
The build is documented day by day on Instagram, from the first box opening to the first thing he says. No edits that hide the failures.
BCM2712 Quad-core Cortex-A76 at 2.4GHz, the part doing the thinking
LPDDR4X 2GB of system memory
RP1 The input output controller, handling USB, ethernet and GPIO
PMIC Power management, fed by the 27W supply
40-pin GPIO Where the Display HAT Mini sits
How a project runs
Small steps with something working at the end of each one.
Scope
A short, free call to pin down the problem, who will use the result, and what done looks like.
Prototype
A working version in one to two weeks, with your data, so you react to something real instead of a document.
Build
The production version: tests, hosting, monitoring and a handover written in plain English.
Run
Launch, then monthly support if you want it. Everything is documented so you're never stuck with us.
Who's behind it
Damon Dynamics is run by Damon Chandio, an AI engineer with an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science from the University of Hull and a BSc in Information Technology. The work is retrieval systems, large language model applications, vector databases, FastAPI and deployment.
He builds every project himself, from the retrieval pipeline to the deployment. You talk to the person writing the code.