Singular Systems

What Singular Systems does

Singular Systems is a Canadian-domiciled sole proprietorship founded in 2002 by Nathan Funk that develops and sells commercial software libraries for parsing and evaluating mathematical expressions. Its product line consists of Jep Java (the core Java library), Jep Extensions (an add-on module providing symbolic operations, matrices, rational numbers, and structured programming), Jep.Net (a hand-crafted .NET port), GWTJep (a JavaScript version cross-compiled via Google Web Toolkit), and AutoAbacus (an equation solving library). The underlying technology uses an operator precedence parser (shunting yard algorithm) with a configurable tokenizer and grammar, supporting arbitrary-precision arithmetic via BigDecimal, complex numbers, vectors, matrices, and symbolic differentiation. Across all products, the company has accumulated over 20 years of refinement and a test suite of 1,400+ unit tests.

The company monetizes exclusively through one-time perpetual software licenses, with prices ranging from $190 (upgrade binary) to $1,640 (Jep + Extensions source + binary bundle), and offers consulting services for customizations and integration. Distribution is direct via website downloads with PayPal or purchase order payment, supplemented by a reseller channel. Marketing is product-led: free trial downloads, interactive web demos, Google Groups community forums (jep-users, jepnet-users), and email update notifications. The customer base spans enterprise technology buyers across aerospace (NASA JPL), healthcare (Siemens Medical), networking (Cisco, Nortel), databases (MySQL AB), insurance (Bajaj Allianz), and motorsports engineering (Lions Racing Team), among others. The business has been bootstrapped since inception, with no external funding or institutional investors, and has operated in a part-time capacity since the founder took external full-time employment in November 2007.

Name

Singular Systems

Legal name

Singular Systems

Website

https://singularsys.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Singular Systems is a bootstrapped sole proprietorship founded in 2002 that sells commercial software libraries (Jep Java, Jep.Net, GWTJep, Jep Extensions, AutoAbacus) for parsing and evaluating mathematical expressions, serving enterprise developers across Java, .NET, and JavaScript platforms via perpetual one-time licenses.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Mathematical Expression Parsing Libraries

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Business Rules & Decision Management Platforms (BRMS/DMN) (HDAEAKAG)

Keywords

• Math expression parser
• Equation solving library
• Symbolic computation sdk
• Java formula evaluator
• Developer math library

Headquarters

HQ city

Edmonton

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software Licenses: One-time perpetual licenses for Jep Java, Jep.Net, Jep Extensions, and AutoAbacus. Available in binary-only or source code + binary formats. Upgrade pricing available for existing license holders.
2. Consulting Services: Customizations, extensions, integration assistance, and debugging services. Provided as billable consulting engagements.
3. Reseller Partnerships: Reseller pricing and terms offered to channel partners who resell Singular Systems products.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Singular Systems develops and sells commercial software libraries that allow developers to parse and evaluate user-supplied mathematical expressions inside their own applications. The flagship Jep library is offered for Java, .NET (Jep.Net), and JavaScript (GWTJep), and is supplemented by Jep Extensions (symbolic operations, advanced types, fast evaluation) and AutoAbacus (equation-set solver). Products are licensed as one-time perpetual binary or source-plus-binary downloads.

Product overview

Singular Systems is a software component company offering a suite of mathematical expression parsing and evaluation libraries. The core product line consists of Jep (available for Java, .NET, and JavaScript via GWTJep), Jep Extensions (a modular add-on for Java adding symbolic operations, advanced type system, and structured programming), and AutoAbacus (an equation solving library). Jep Java and Jep.Net serve as the primary parser/evaluator libraries for their respective platforms, while GWTJep extends this capability to web browsers through JavaScript. Jep Extensions is a layered add-on that builds on Jep Java to provide advanced mathematical features. All products are commercial libraries distributed with binary and source code licensing options.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Jep Java: Java library for parsing and evaluating mathematical expressions with support for variables, constants, functions, and complex numbers.
• Jep Extensions
• Jep.Net
• GWTJep
• AutoAbacus

Products and services

• Jep Java A Java library for parsing and evaluating mathematical expressions. Allows developers to let end users enter an arbitrary formula as a string and evaluate it instantly, with support for user-defined variables, constants, functions, BigDecimal-based arbitrary-precision arithmetic, complex numbers, vectors, and a configurable parser architecture.
• Jep Extensions A modular add-on package for Jep Java that adds symbolic operations (differentiation, simplification, expansion, polynomial conversion), a field type system with unlimited-precision integers, rational numbers, vectors, and matrices, a Fast Evaluation Engine for pre-compiled expressions, structured programming constructs (for/while loops, if statements, lambda expressions), statistical functions and distributions, and MathML conversion.
• Jep.Net A .NET (C#) library for parsing and evaluating mathematical expressions. A hand-crafted port of Jep Java to the .NET framework with a small footprint (99kb DLL), fast parsing and evaluation, and support for user-defined variables, constants, functions, strings, arrays, and complex numbers.
• GWTJep A JavaScript version of Jep cross-compiled from Java using Google's Google Web Toolkit, delivering nearly all features of the standard Jep and Jep Extensions libraries for use in web applications running in the browser.
• AutoAbacus A Java equation solving library that finds solutions to sets of equations passed as text strings. Supports linear, polynomial, and arbitrary function equations with no limit on the number of variables or equations, and uses profiling to apply appropriate solution methods to subsets.

Quantifiable outcome

• 4-5x faster evaluation with Fast Evaluation components
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature12 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ResellersminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSingular Systems welcomes resellers to contact them regarding reseller pricing and terms. Resellers can obtain custom pricing arrangements for distributing Singular Systems products.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Emerging players

• SymPy: Open-source Python library for symbolic mathematics including differentiation, equation solving, and arbitrary precision. Comparable to Jep Extensions in feature set but in the Python ecosystem — a free alternative that limits Jep's pricing power in scientific Python environments.
• Apache Commons Math: Open-source Java library providing numerical analysis, statistics, and mathematical utilities. Overlaps with Jep Java for developers needing mathematical computation inside Java applications, particularly scientific and engineering workloads.

Broad incumbents

• MathWorks (MATLAB): Industry-standard platform for numerical and symbolic mathematics with deep adoption in engineering and aerospace (overlapping with Singular Systems' NASA JPL use case). Comparable on symbolic computation, equation solving, and matrix operations, but at vastly larger scale.
• Wolfram Research (Mathematica): Incumbent in symbolic and numerical mathematical computing across desktop, server, and cloud. A much broader platform than Jep but operates in overlapping symbolic-differentiation, equation-solving, and arbitrary-precision territory that Singular Systems addresses with AutoAbacus and Jep Extensions.

Direct peers

• NCalc: Open-source .NET mathematical expression parser and evaluator. Directly comparable to Jep.Net as a library that lets developers evaluate user-entered formulas at runtime, with similar feature scope (custom functions, operators) in the same runtime ecosystem.
• Flee (Fast Lightweight Expression Evaluator): .NET library for parsing and evaluating arbitrary expressions with custom functions and operators. Competes with Jep.Net in the same horizontal use cases (financial calculators, business rules, configurable formulas).
• DynamicExpresso: .NET expression parser and evaluator aimed at letting end users enter formulas as strings. Overlaps directly with Jep.Net's core value proposition of runtime formula evaluation in the .NET ecosystem.
• Math.NET Symbolics: .NET library for symbolic mathematics including arbitrary precision arithmetic and parsing — directly comparable to Jep Extensions' symbolic operations and field type system within the same .NET developer audience.
• NCalcSync / NCalcCore: Cross-platform .NET expression evaluator derived from NCalc. Directly comparable to Jep.Net for runtime formula parsing and evaluation in modern .NET (Core/5+) environments.
• Z.Expressions (Eval-Expression.NET): .NET library for dynamic expression compilation and evaluation. Competes with Jep.Net and DynamicExpresso for the same use case of letting applications accept and execute user-supplied formulas at runtime.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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