ARGA | CoreTM
Vol. II · October 2026The ARGA | Core Studio JournalIssue №024
2026 —A studio's manifesto

Software,
made slowly.

Asmall, independent software company working across Wyoming, California, and Utah. We build practical business, infrastructure, and AI tools, and answer to the people who pay for them — nobody else.

An ivory ARGA Core interface prototype on drafting paper beside a yellow pencil.
Plate I—The Studio at Rest
ARGA | TMS✦ARGA | Task✦ARGA | Book✦ARGA | DIW✦ARGA | AetherVoice✦ARGA | DS✦ARGA | Mail✦ARGA | CIS✦ARGA | Secure✦ARGA | DNS✦ARGA | Pass✦ARGA | TMS✦ARGA | Task✦ARGA | Book✦ARGA | DIW✦ARGA | AetherVoice✦ARGA | DS✦ARGA | Mail✦ARGA | CIS✦ARGA | Secure✦ARGA | DNS✦ARGA | Pass✦

The ARGA | Core portfolio

Work tools.
Built with purpose.

From freight and finance to infrastructure, security, and AI: a collection of focused projects built around the work people actually do.

11 projects4 areas of workBeta & RC
Transportation01

ARGA | TMS

The freight lifecycle, connected.

A multi-portal transportation management system for freight brokerage: quoting, complex shipments, carrier capacity, fraud defense, documents, accounting, and billing in one operational workspace.

  • Quoting and shipment planning
  • Carrier and capacity operations
  • Role-specific portals
Task management02

ARGA | Task

Capture ideas. Coordinate the work.

An AI-powered task workspace for individuals and teams, combining natural-language and voice capture, scheduling, shared projects, calendar workflows, and multiple views of the work ahead.

  • Natural-language task capture
  • Voice task entry
  • Calendar and email workflows
Release candidateExplore
Accounting & finance03

ARGA | Book

Connect the financial side of your business.

An integrated accounting, payroll, and tax platform for small businesses, with Core, Freight, and Contractor workflows tailored to the way each business operates.

  • Core business accounting
  • Freight financial workflows
  • Contractor project finance
Document integrity04

ARGA | DIW

Inspect the text. Preserve the evidence.

The document integrity platform combines document forensics, reviewable cleanup, and constrained prose revision: inspect hidden Unicode signals, recover supported payloads, and protect important text while editing.

  • Hidden-text inspection
  • Supported payload recovery
  • Provenance and residue review
Speech & listening05

ARGA | AetherVoice

Give documents a voice.

A self-hosted listening and voice workspace bringing document reading, synchronized highlighting, grounded questions, dictation, podcast, and meeting workflows together.

  • Read with synchronized highlighting
  • Document-grounded questions
  • Broad document ingestion
Document signing06

ARGA | DS

From a PDF to a signing workflow.

A custom e-signature platform for building PDF forms and coordinating multi-party signing, with documented timestamped signatures, verification, embedded signing, APIs, and team controls.

  • Visual PDF form builder
  • Multi-party signing
  • Signatures and verification
Email platform07

ARGA | Mail

Mail infrastructure you can host.

A self-hosted email platform for organizations managing one or many domains, combining mail delivery and access, webmail, calendars and contacts, spam filtering, administration, and encrypted backups.

  • Mail delivery and access
  • Webmail, calendars, and contacts
  • Spam filtering
Release candidateExplore
Core identity08

ARGA | CIS

A shared identity foundation.

Arga's product-agnostic core identity service provides shared authentication and token issuance, with documented passkeys, OAuth/OpenID Connect, federation, provisioning, and audit controls.

  • Standards-based token services
  • Passkey authentication
  • Federation and provisioning
Infrastructure hardening09

ARGA | Secure

Inspect first. Change with control.

An infrastructure security auditor and remediator combining policy validation, selectable controls, structured reports, and bounded remediation with preview and recovery mechanisms.

  • Platform and policy checks
  • Structured audit reports
  • Infrastructure control families
Authoritative DNS10

ARGA | DNS

Authoritative DNS under your control.

A self-hosted authoritative DNS platform for operators hosting customer zones, covering DNSSEC, controlled publishing, traffic steering, scoped administration, and automation.

  • Authoritative DNS architecture
  • DNSSEC workflows
  • Staged publish and rollback
Password management11

ARGA | Pass

A vault designed around your devices.

A password manager built around encrypted vault storage, local-first synchronization, autofill, and hardware-assisted authentication across web, desktop, mobile, and browser experiences.

  • Encrypted vault architecture
  • Local-first synchronization
  • Autofill and integrations
Release candidateExplore

What we build

Useful on their own.
Stronger as a portfolio.

Eleven products across four areas of work. ARGA | Mail, ARGA | Task, and ARGA | Pass are in final RC stages; the rest of the portfolio is in Beta and moving toward RC.

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Infrastructure

Run the services behind the work: organizational email with ARGA | Mail and authoritative zone management with ARGA | DNS.

How we work

Four articles of faith.

These are the things we wrote down on a wall in our first office, then carried with us when there stopped being an office. We re-read them on bad days.

I.

Independence over scale.

We are funded by our customers, not investors. Which means we can take our time, say no, and build for decades — not quarters. We've turned down acquisition offers four times.

II.

Async, by default.

A couple dozen people, working remotely across the US with almost no meetings. We write things down, work in long focused stretches, and trust each other to ship when it's ready.

III.

Quiet software.

We don't fight for your attention. No streaks, no badges, no notification-as-engagement. Our products try to be useful, then get out of your way.

IV.

Built to outlast us.

We obsess over data ownership, exportability, and longevity. The work you put into our products belongs to you, forever. If we ever close, the doors stay unlocked.

Coda

Pick where to start.

Eleven products in Beta and RC, one small studio. Whichever one is most useful to you today is the right place to begin.

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