Compose, do not fork
Customization should happen through modules, data models and extensions rather than per-customer code branches.
Platform
A business platform, not another pile of disconnected tools.
PentaPaper combines shared operational capabilities with modular domain logic, so companies can standardize the common parts and specialize everything that makes them unique.
PentaPaper
Shared core
Build the boring parts once. Keep improving them for everyone.
Core capabilities mature across the entire platform instead of being rebuilt inside every niche product.
Contacts & organizationsProjects & tasksOffers & invoicesExpenses & inventoryDocuments & notesReports, APIs & permissions
PentaPaper
Shared core
Contacts
Projects
Finance
Documents
Inventory
Reporting
Photo
Services
Trades
Your business
Add the objects your business actually needs.
Domain-specific data should feel native, not bolted on. The platform direction is to make new structured objects, relationships and screens fast to create while inheriting the same UI, permissions and APIs.
Example requirement
“We need to manage photography locations with permits, example images and related shoots.”
Location
Namestring
Addressaddress
Accessenum
Example imagesmedia[]
Related shootsrelation[]
Location
GET /api/v1/locationsConcept demonstration of the extension model. Custom-object tooling is part of the near-term platform roadmap.
From framework to focused product.
PentaPaper sits on a shared application substrate that lets us build, package and move capabilities without starting from zero every time.
Vertical productsPhoto · future industry packages · spin-outs
PentaPaper modulesReusable business and domain capabilities
PentaPaperShared business platform
MainframeStandardized application shell and components
CharmCompact PHP application framework
$ pentapaper modules:listcontacts activefinance activeprojects activephoto package$ curl /api/v1/projects/42{ "id": 42, "status": "active", "client": 128 }# conventional web stack · portable by design
REST / JSONCLIPHP 8.4+LinuxTwigSQLValkey / Redis
Data first
Business software becomes useful when it models the actual things a company works with and the relationships between them.
Reuse compounds
A feature funded by one use case can strengthen other packages and make the next vertical cheaper to launch.
SaaS first. Infrastructure optionality underneath.
The public product is designed as a hosted service. Underneath, PentaPaper runs on conventional web infrastructure without depending on a proprietary cloud runtime.
Platform direction
PentaPaper Cloud
The default experience: managed, updated and ready to use.
Private / self-managed
Future deployment options can build on the same portable stack for organizations that need more control over where software and data run.
A platform that can open gradually.
We are sequencing the public product around what is useful now, then exposing more of the architecture as it matures.
NowPrivate beta · core modules · production dogfooding
NextPublic beta · Photo package · richer templates and relationships
ThenCustom modules · extension library · more industry packages
DirectionBroader developer tooling · private deployment · marketplace
Private beta
Build the next edge with us.
We are inviting a small number of businesses to test PentaPaper, challenge the platform and help shape what comes next.