About
A software engineer who plays guitar
Binturong Audio is a small software company with one goal: build genuinely useful tools for the problems musicians actually run into, and treat the people who buy them right.
Who I am
I'm Sean. By day I'm a professional software engineer, mostly building member portals for healthcare, where security and privacy aren't optional and one codebase has to serve many differently branded apps. That work taught me to care about the parts of software nobody sees: careful design, clean boundaries, and code that's still easy to change years later.
The rest of the time, I play guitar. Binturong Audio is where those two halves meet. I'd rather point real engineering at the problems I run into every time I pick up an instrument than at another app competing for your attention.
What I'm working on
My first product, Binturong R.E.D, turns a recording of your guitar into notes, tab, and a score. Accurate transcription is a hard, unsolved problem, and the research field behind it, music information retrieval (MIR), moves fast. I follow that research closely, and I plan to turn the best of it into practical tools for players. The devlog is where I share that work as it happens.
How I do business
I don't like renting software, so I won't make you rent mine. I want to show that a company can do well by building things that deserve to be paid for, then standing behind them.
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Buy it once
No subscriptions. You pay a fair price once, and the software is yours.
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Maintained for life
If you bought it, it keeps working: bug fixes and operating system updates for the whole life of the product.
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Honest about what works
Accuracy is measured against published research datasets, and every feature is labeled as working today or still planned.
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Your music stays yours
Results are saved in open formats that other tools read. Nothing is locked inside an app.
Why "binturong"?
A binturong, sometimes called a bearcat, is a shaggy, unhurried tree-dweller from Southeast Asia. It's neither a bear nor a cat, and it famously smells like buttered popcorn. A little odd, takes its time, impossible to mistake for anything else: a good spirit for a company that plans to get things right rather than get them out fast.