About
The company behind Dockli.
Tiny Tugboat (Pty) Ltd is an independent software company registered in South Africa. We design, build and operate our own products for organisations that run on Microsoft 365 and Azure.
Our flagship is Dockli — an AI file manager that puts SharePoint, Teams and OneDrive inside Windows File Explorer. It is published as a transactable offer on Microsoft AppSource and sold to organisations worldwide.
Why “Tiny Tugboat”
In every harbour, the largest ships are moved by the smallest boats. A tugboat doesn't try to be the ship — it applies exactly the right force, in exactly the right place.
That's our model for software: small, precise products that move the heavy workloads of much larger organisations. No sprawl, no platforms-of-everything — the right force, in the right place.
How we work
01
Craft over scale
We would rather ship one product that feels inevitable than five that feel adequate. Detail is the strategy: the empty states, the error copy, the first-run experience.
02
Security before features
Our software acts on customers’ data in their own Microsoft 365 tenants, under their own permissions. Least-privilege access, tenant-side data residency and honest privacy language are non-negotiables, not marketing.
03
Small team, serious software
Modern tooling lets a deliberately small company build and operate software that used to take departments. We stay small on purpose — it keeps quality personal.
04
Built to be kept
We operate what we build. Products get long-term roadmaps, honest changelogs and support answered by the people who wrote the code.
Company facts
- Legal name
- Tiny Tugboat (Pty) Ltd
- Registration
- 2026/382199/07
- Registered office
- South Africa
- Other locations
- Ireland
- Flagship product
- Dockli — dockli.io
- Marketplace
- Microsoft AppSource — transactable SaaS