Software.
For the real world.
We build the systems behind buildings, gates, and safety. In production today, running operations businesses depend on.
A growing suite of products in the field · serving clients worldwide
Run the whole operation.
Projects, inventory, approvals, and margins. One system that knows the health of every job, live.
- Know every project's health instantly
- Approvals cleared in hours, not weeks
- Never lose a serial, warranty, or AMC date
Vertex ERP · Metro FAS
HEALTHYLive margin
24%
All approvals clear · inventory reconciled
Project healthy: margin computed live
Every alarm. One glance.
Four fire-panel vendors. Every site. A single dashboard that watches everything and can never touch your life-safety hardware.
- Alarms surface in under a second
- One view across all panel brands
- Zero risk: read-only by architecture
PyroWatch · All sites
NORMALAll sites normal: 18 zones monitored live
Your front desk, reimagined.
Face recognition checks visitors and vehicles in. Hosts know instantly. Paperwork never happens.
- Check-in in 0.8 seconds, no app installs
- Hosts notified the moment guests arrive
- Complete audit trail of everyone on site
SmartGate · Gate 2
READYAwaiting visitor…
Visitor approaches Gate 2
From gate to payday.
Attendance, wages, and advances for site workforces. Fully offline, zero IT required.
- Attendance to payout, fully automated
- Runs with zero internet on site
- Updates ship as one file any site admin can apply
LabourManager · Site A
gate open138
workers in
96%
attendance this week
No internet on site · everything stays local
Workers check in at the gate
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domains, one team
0+
years of enterprise craft
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AI vision products in the field
0/7
monitoring systems in production
And it doesn’t stop there.
More products and projects from Kaniworks, across business, learning and everyday life. Every card is a small live demo: give it a few seconds and it explains itself.
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Services
One partner, the whole need.
You would usually buy this from three suppliers: one to build the software, one to handle the brand, one to say what the market is doing. We do all of it with the same small team, design and engineering under one roof, so your product, your brand and your campaigns say the same thing.
Product engineering
Multi-tenant SaaS, real-time systems and dashboards, built for the people who stare at them all day. You get a running product, and we agree at the start what is handed over with it, code and documentation included.
Industrial integration
Fire panels, edge gateways, turnstiles, face recognition, vision AI. We work close to the hardware: four makes of alarm panel on one screen, a QR ticket engine we load-tested to 21 lanes.
Android & iOS apps
One app that works on both, or a native build for each platform. We handle the store listings, testing and the release process, so your app reaches people instead of sitting in a folder.
Web & online stores
Marketing sites, product sites and landing pages, built to load fast and to be edited by your team. An online store too, when selling is the point.
Run & evolve
Cloud deployment, monitoring and updates planned around your working hours. We stay after we ship, so the software keeps up with the way your business changes.
Branding
Name, logo, color, type and the rules for using them. You receive logo files in every format you need, a short brand guide, and templates your team can fill in without calling a designer.
Graphic design & print
Brochures, catalogs, banners, exhibition panels, packaging and stationery. You receive the editable artwork and press-ready files, so any printer can run them.
Interface design & design systems
Research, screens and a component library your developers can build straight from. This is our founder's own craft, from more than sixteen years designing enterprise software.
Social media & campaigns
A campaign plan, a posting calendar, and the posts themselves: copy, artwork and short video. We built our own campaign manager to schedule and measure the work.
Market & competitor research
Who else sells to your buyers, what they claim, how they price in public and where the gaps are. We built a research tool for this. A competitor dossier comes back with their tech stack, trackers, an SEO score and the keywords their site is built around.
Software consulting
What to build, what to buy, what to integrate and what it will take. You get a written scope, an architecture, a cost and time estimate, and a plain account of the risks.
Four of our own products run in production today, and the same team does the brand and the campaigns around them.
Extended teams
Your team, extended.
For businesses in the US and Europe with more roadmap than hands: we place dedicated specialists on your projects, from a single engineer to a full squad sized to your needs, working as part of your team and backed by our studio’s standards.
Let’s chat about your team- Hand-picked engineers and designers from our Chennai studio
- Embedded in your tools, your standups, your workflow
- Working hours overlap with US and European time zones
- One simple monthly rate per person, scaling up or down as your roadmap changes
About us
Design isn’t a department here.
It’s the founder.
Kaniworks is led by Maheswaran Manoharan, a UX lead who spent 16+ years designing enterprise IoT platforms at one of the world’s leading elevator and building-technology companies. That career earned him a Red Dot Design Award and nine design patents, and shipped software into buildings across the world. That discipline is now in every product Kaniworks builds.
Red Dot Design Award
winner · international recognition
9 design patents
granted for original product design
Founder’s recognition, earned across a global enterprise career.
His work serves users in
United States
Canada
Europe
UAE
Australia
New Zealand
Singapore
Malaysia
India
China
RussiaWho we build for
We stay for the long haul.
We would rather help a business work better year after year than deliver one project and move on. Each card below is a kind of business we build for, and how far that work has gone. Some of it runs every day, some is still being built, and we say which is which.
ELV & fire-safety contractors
In production
One contractor runs the whole job on Vertex ERP: projects, serial-linked stock, approvals and live project margins, plus a support desk where their own customers raise service requests.
Facilities & multi-site operators
In production
PyroWatch monitors fire panels in real time and brings several panel makes into one view. It is read-only by design, so it can watch a panel but never change it.
Sites with a manned gate
In production, one client site
SmartGate runs the gate: check-in by face in about 0.8 seconds, AI watching vehicles and trucks, and the access controllers already installed still in use.
Builders & site contractors
In production
LabourManager pays site workforces: attendance, wages and payouts on a desktop that keeps working when the network does not.
Fire-safety consultants
In development
We are building BOQ Builder alongside a consultancy, shaped around the estimate files their team already works in.
University venues & schools
First engagement, plus a prototype
GateXpress validates QR tickets at venue turnstiles. We load-tested it across 21 lanes and 5,000 tickets. It is not live at a venue yet: the first engagement is a university auditorium, reached through an integrator we work with. Kalvi, our school prototype, covers admissions through to report cards.
Architects & design practices
Open to a first project
Profile and portfolio management for design practices. Design is our own craft, so research, interface design and design systems can be the whole job, not just the front of a build.
Brands & small businesses
Studio work
We do web, brand and campaign work in house. For an integrator we work with: a website and a software page. For our own bakery brand: a scroll-driven 3D site. Plus campaign planning, product logos and game art.
One prototype, and who it was for.
Prototype, shown September 2026
Vazhi is our prototype of a traffic advisory and road-asset platform for the Greater Chennai Traffic Police. We showed it to the Chennai City Police Commissioner in September 2026. It publishes planned and unplanned road restrictions to people nearby, and gives the police their own map of signals, one-ways, no-parking and time-based restrictions. There is no contract and no deployment behind it. It is a prototype we built and demonstrated, and we are proud of the problem it takes on.
We name sectors, not companies. The traffic prototype above is the one exception, named so we can describe that work honestly. If you would like to speak to a customer, ask us and we will check with them first.
Partnership
We plan to stay.
Our job is to leave your business earning more than when we arrived. The software we are proudest of grew inside a working business, shaped by what we saw there. Here is how we like to work.
Understand
We learn your business.
We sit with the people doing the work: the site engineer, the storekeeper, the person who signs off. Before we propose anything, we want to see how materials, money and decisions move through your day.
Start small
One problem worth solving.
We pick the thing costing you the most time or money and start there. The first build is deliberately narrow, so you can judge us on something you can use instead of on a proposal.
Go live
Into daily use.
We ship it to your team and stay beside them through the first messy weeks: training, fixes, and the small changes that only surface once work is flowing through the system.
Run it
We run it, you gain from it.
Deployment and updates stay on our side, so nobody on your team is left maintaining it. We watch how the software is used, show you what your own numbers say, and tune it where the money is: hours saved, leaks closed, quotes out faster.
Grow
The next thing worth fixing.
Once one part is steady, we go looking for the next place value is leaking or waiting: another operation, campaigns that bring in enquiries, a website that converts, or a product you can sell. By now we know your business well enough to spot it.
We would rather be judged by what your business earns with the software than by how fast we shipped it.
We’d love to hear from you.
Tell us what you’re running: a site, a fleet, a front desk. Share a little about it and we’ll happily show you what it could look like as software. No pressure, no jargon.
Chennai, India · Working with people worldwide · We reply within a day, always