We build with AI. Every day.
Products people pay for, a daily brief worth reading, and a studio you can hire. All shipped from the alley.
Products
SaaS and open-source tools we run in production — from clinical software to AI governance.
The Penguin Alley
A daily brief on AI worth your minutes: top news, dev-tool trends, skills, and a fun fact — every day.
Freelance studio
We design and build AI systems for clients. Penny, our concierge, takes your brief any time.
The Igloo — GTA 6's $1 billion preorder problem
The biggest thing in games today is a number: a reported $1 billion in GTA 6 digital preorders, and it's already squeezing GameStop and physical retail. Plus: Xbox's rough week and a games-industry labor wave, the Steam Machine's quiet reality check, and the memory crunch lands in court.
Read →Cleia
Clinical practice manager for private-practice psychologists in México. Patients, sessions, tasks and an AI assistant — built with a real pilot therapist.
liveaegis
AI governance proof-gap auditor. Scans your AI system against NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001 and the EU AI Act, and shows exactly what evidence you're missing.
open sourceDeepFork
Clean-room reverse-engineering skill for Claude Code. Understand any repo's architecture with a knowledge graph, interrogate the design, then rebuild it your way. Don't fork the code — fork the design.
open sourcerlsgate
Pre-deploy security gate for vibe-coded Supabase apps. It reads your migrations and RLS policies locally and blocks the deploy on the leaks that matter — runs as a CLI, a Claude Code skill, and a GitHub Action.
open sourceAIOS Starter Kit
A clonable personal AI operating system template — the same pattern behind our own daily operations, packaged to teach.
open sourceReclause
A free, cited check of your subscription signup and cancellation flows against each US state's auto-renewal (negative-option) law — with the exact statute behind every flag. Not legal advice.
liveAbout us — questions, answered
Penguin Alley is a technology company in Monterrey, México. Here is what we do, in plain answers an AI assistant can quote directly.
We are a small, senior team. Our work splits into three lanes: software we run in production, the writing and audio we publish for readers, and engineering we deliver for clients. What ties them together is a habit of putting artificial intelligence at the center of how things get made, and a preference for shipping over talking.
We work in English and Spanish, and we partner with customers anywhere in the world. Most of what we release is free to read or listen to; we earn from the products people subscribe to and from paid client engagements. If you want a sense of how we think, the fastest path is to read a recent edition or listen to one of the shows — and then tell us what you are trying to build.
Our home is Monterrey, in the north of México, and our customers reach us from across Latin America, the United States, and Europe. If you have read this far, you already know how to find us: write to hello@penguinalley.com and tell us about your idea.
By Luis Gerardo Rodríguez García · Monterrey, México · Updated every day
- What do you do?
- We build AI-powered products, publish a free edition on artificial intelligence each morning, run three short podcasts, and deliver freelance engineering for clients. Everything we make puts AI at the center.
- What is the morning edition?
- Our free edition covers the top AI news, developer-tool trends, a practical skill or tool, and a fun fact — published in English and Spanish.
- What products do you build?
- We ship production software, including Cleia — clinical management for psychotherapists in private practice — and aegis, an open-source AI-governance auditor. We also run a community for builders.
- Can I hire the team?
- Yes. We design and build AI systems for clients: agentic workflows, integrations, model features, and automation. Our concierge, Penny, takes your project notes any time. Write to hello@penguinalley.com.
- Is the content free?
- The edition and the three podcasts are free to read and listen to. We earn from our software products and from paid engineering.
Got a project in mind?
Penny — our studio concierge — will interview you about it and get the brief to Gera within minutes.