Flotsam & Bedlam
Independent software · Florida

Flotsam &
Bedlam

Useful things, salvaged from the chaos.

We build small, sturdy tools that run on your own machine — the kind you fish out of the wreckage, wipe off, and end up using every day.

What we make

Three tools, one workshop.

Available soon

TabVCR

Your browser's VCR. Records any Chrome tab — video and audio — to a local 720p or 1080p file. No account, no cloud, no tracking. Nothing ever leaves your computer.

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In development

Gini

Business management for independent creators. Catalog every asset, track net earnings, measure what a collaboration actually did for you — and keep the entire ledger on your own machine.

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In development

Enqueste

A provenance-first public-integrity workbench for citizens, journalists, auditors and public servants. Catalog records, preserve their lineage, run inspectable analyses offline — and keep every conclusion under a named human author.

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How we build

Rules of the yard.

Local first

Your data lives on your machine and works without a network. The cloud is an option, never a requirement.

One job, done well

Every product does a small number of things completely. Scope creep gets thrown back in the water.

No accounts, no tracking

We don't need to know who you are to sell you a tool. We don't collect what we don't need, and we don't need much.

Honest limits

What a product can't do is written down next to what it can. Surprises belong in fiction.

Inspectable

Where a tool reaches a result, you can see how it got there. Software that says "trust me" is asking too much.

Sturdy over shiny

Boring, well-understood parts. Formats you can open in ten years. Nothing that breaks when a vendor changes its mind.

About the name

Flotsam, bedlam, and the bit in between.

Flotsam is what the sea throws back — the stuff worth grabbing before it sinks. Bedlam is the state of everything else. We operate at the intersection: pulling small, useful software out of the general commotion.

The mark is a three-spoke merchant's monogram — F, B, and the ampersand that holds them together — with three small circuit contacts on the spokes. Old trading house, new wiring.

We like tools that do one job well, respect your machine, and don't ask who you are.

Founder
Thomas Jardon
Founder & principal

Fifteen years running multi-site healthcare and housing operations in Miami — budgets, compliance, data, and the people who make all three work. Flotsam & Bedlam exists because the tools the work needed didn't exist, so he started building them.

Contact

Send a bottle.

prime@fnbedlam.com

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