Company / 01

Built from real-world
technical experience.

Southbound Software is an independent product company. We build focused tools for people who work with modern AI systems and native software for everyday desktop work.

Tyler South, founder of Southbound Software Tyler South / Founder

The builder

Practical tools, direct support, and engineering that holds up beyond the demo.

I’m Tyler South. I’ve spent more than 15 years in IT service environments, working across cybersecurity, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, email authentication, firewalls, cloud systems, and the business workflows around them.

That background shapes every Southbound product: secure defaults, useful before flashy, local-first where it fits, signed installers where people download software, and open source when the product should be.

02 / Working principles

A small company
with clear standards.

01

Accountability stays close

The person making the product decisions is the same person reading support and shipping the release.

02

Security is product work

Credentials, storage, installers, and failure states are designed deliberately rather than treated as launch cleanup.

03

Status should be honest

Live, beta, and coming-soon mean different things. The site says what is available without pretending a roadmap is a release.

03 / What we ship

Infrastructure and
desktop software.

ToolportOpen-source local MCP gateway, with Teams for organization policy and shared configuration.

Toolport StudioMulti-provider desktop workspace in beta.

Cubby and CeilingLocal-first Windows tools for clipboard history and AI capacity.

MatteshotPremium Windows capture and recording approaching commercial launch.

See what Southbound is building now.

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