Our mission

Better questions lead to better decisions.

Pygar helps people widen their view, challenge familiar thinking and make decisions they can understand and own.

Built in Britain. Designed for individuals and organisations.

Origin story

Pygar began with a problem Murray kept seeing.

Important decisions were being narrowed by pressure, hierarchy and familiar thinking before the real work had even begun.

AI could make that problem worse by delivering a polished answer too quickly. Murray built Pygar to slow down the right part of the process. It examines a question from several independent perspectives before bringing the thinking together.

Pygar does not make the decision for you. It helps you see what may be missing, understand the reasoning and decide what to do next.

Why the name Pygar?

A name about perspective and movement.

Pygar is named after the blind angel in Barbarella. He has lost the will to fly, but his connection with Barbarella gives him new purpose and helps lift them both out of danger.

Just as the mythic Pygar found new purpose through connection, Pygar.AI bridges structured machine logic and expansive human creativity. It lifts thinking from the ground level towards wider potential. Like Pygar lifting Barbarella out of chaos, it helps users rise above constrained patterns they may not yet recognise, while keeping responsibility for the next move firmly human.

The angel wing

The wing recalls Pygar and the human ability to rise beyond present limitations.

The human face

The face keeps people at the centre of AI progress and represents a balanced relationship between human judgement and machine intelligence.

The compass

The compass stands for clear direction and personal responsibility. Pygar.AI can help people navigate, but it does not choose their future for them.

Murray Hewitt-Coleman, founder and product owner of Pygar

Murray Hewitt-Coleman

Founder and product owner

The human element

Judgement stays human.

Murray’s career has run through leadership, people, operational and organisational change work; from high-risk specialist policing connected with Search and Rescue operations in South Africa, to working with international defence clients including Rolls-Royce and Babcock International, to commercial construction, logistics and retail with clients such as Interserve Construction, The Very Group and Nestlé. Very different environments, the same recurring tensions; a decision can be commercially urgent, organisationally complex and deeply human all at once.

Pygar AI Technologies is his response to that tension. As sole founder and product owner, he sets the product’s purpose, language and boundaries. It has been built in close collaboration with AI and engineering tools, but the test it has to pass stays inherently human; does this help someone see more clearly, ask a better question when it matters most, and take clearer responsibility for the next move?

Complex organisationsOperational changePeople and performanceDecision design

Core values

What Pygar protects.

1

Broaden the question

Look beyond the first answer before narrowing the decision.

2

Keep perspectives independent

Different ways of thinking stay separate until the final response is formed.

3

Show the reasoning

People should be able to understand and challenge what they are given.

4

Protect private thinking

Personal questions stay private unless the individual chooses otherwise.

5

Keep responsibility human

The decision, the action and the consequences stay with a person.

Next step

Bring a real question.

Use Pygar to examine it from more than one angle and decide your next move with greater clarity.

Pygar.AI — The human response to algorithmic efficiency