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Serious tools for people who go deep.

Prodigal Panda is an independent software studio building powerful tools for enthusiasts — the people who want more than a generic app can offer. We pick hard, specific problems and build software that actually solves them.

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Who we are

Built for the people who want to dig in.

Most apps are built for the average user and stop there. Prodigal Panda builds for the enthusiast — the person who wants to understand the problem, not just get a tidy answer. We pick narrow, meaningful problems and go deep: real data, real depth, and the kind of control that power users actually want. We are a U.S.-registered limited liability company and we ship our own products end to end.

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Depth over defaults

Generic apps give you a number. We give you the inputs, the assumptions, and the controls to explore the whole problem yourself.

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Grounded in real data

Our tools are built on real, verifiable data with full attribution — so you can trust what's under the hood and check our work.

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One problem, done right

We don't chase broad markets. Each product takes on a specific, hard problem and solves it better than anything else out there.

What we build

Our work

Tools for enthusiasts who've outgrown the one-size-fits-all app and want to go deeper. Swipe to explore what we're building.

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fuegoCalc

Stress-test your retirement.

Built for people who want to truly understand their retirement, not just plug numbers into a black box. fuegoCalc tests your plan against every historical U.S. market window since 1871 — the Great Depression, 1970s stagflation, the dot-com bust, 2008. Instead of randomized projections, it uses the real stock returns, bond returns, T-bill yields, and inflation that actually occurred in each period, and hands you the controls to explore every assumption.

Real historical data, not Monte Carlo guesswork
Deep control over savings, spending, Social Security, and allocation
See your success rate across every market window in history
Sensitivity analysis to pressure-test what really moves the outcome

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In development

Mekiki

Find the restaurant you'd never have found.

For the diner who refuses to settle for the same four spots the generic apps surface. Ask Mekiki in plain language — "a quiet room for a serious business dinner," "the best omakase under $150" — and its research pipeline pulls candidates from multiple sources, enriches them with awards and parsed menus, and reasons over the details to hand you a short, genuinely considered shortlist.

Natural-language queries, not rigid filters
Pulls from multiple sources, not a single listing site
Reads awards and menus to understand what a place actually is
A curated top handful, not an endless scroll of results

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Say hello

Let's talk.

Questions, support, partnerships, or press — we read every message.

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