Making things
a little bit better
RoundBear builds apps and services that take messy data, AI and automation and turn them into something anyone can pick up and use.
Products
Fairly Sorted
Get it all out of your head. Sort it together.
One shared list for household jobs, family belongings, moves or trips. Everyone chooses privately, then you agree who does or gets what.
TimeWalk
Turn your walk into a narrated journey.
Hear the stories behind the places around you, or walk through the history of any subject with your steps pacing the story. Android, with 15 minutes of narration free.
ChallengeMyRates
Check whether your business rates are too high.
Helps UK businesses find out if their rateable value is out of line with similar properties, then challenge it. Built on an automated Valuation Office data pipeline.
Pothole Payback
Hit a pothole? Your council could owe you.
Helps drivers claim compensation for pothole damage by finding earlier public reports that prove the council already knew about the defect.
OpenGroupMap
Collaborative maps for groups.
Create maps your group can add to, for community projects, event planning and collecting location data. Contributors don’t need an account.
Got a knotty problem?
RoundBear is Ed Dowding’s studio, and is available for interesting work: products, prototypes and practical AI.
Get in touchClient websites
Smaller builds for businesses and events.
Earlier ventures
Companies Ed founded and ran.
Represent
2014–2018 · Founder & CEO
A digital democracy platform. People voted on individual policies rather than whole party packages, and could see how closely their MP agreed with them on the issues they cared about. Featured in The Times as “plotting a revolution in the way voters engage with politics”.
FoodTrade
2011–2015 · Founder & CEO
Mapped and reconnected local food supply chains, so farmers could find buyers and restaurants and shops could source locally. Fast Company called it “LinkedIn for local food and farmers”, and WIRED named it one of Europe’s top 100 startups.
Experiments
Prototypes and side projects.
CoDraft
2024
A collaborative editor for policy and scenario planning. Every paragraph can be voted on, discussed and versioned on its own, so the strongest ideas rise to the top without forcing early consensus.
Climate Life in Weeks
2024
Enter your birth date and see your lifetime laid out week by week against the UK’s warming stripes, past and projected.
Contextual Feedback
2025 · Open source
A drop-in React library that lets users click the exact part of a page they’re giving feedback about. An AI agent can then triage each item, act on it and mark it resolved.
Yoto card kit
2026 · Open source
Two scripts for making your own Yoto cards: one transcribes long audio into timestamped chapters, the other makes card art that stays readable on the player.