Press Kit

Press contact

For press inquiries, interview requests, partnership conversations, or anything that needs a fast human reply: [email protected]. The address routes to the founder and is checked on every business day.

For general support, see /support. For sales conversations about a specific product, the per-product site (snapmonkey.app, id.llamamonkey.com, liftmonkey.app) is the faster path.

Boilerplate — the one-paragraph description

Llama Monkey LLC is an independent software studio founded in 2025, building focused tools for creative people. The company's product family includes SnapMonkey (automatic photo and video transfer from Canon WiFi cameras to OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox — live), LMID (single sign-on across the Llama Monkey product family — private beta with a staged general-availability rollout in 2026), and LiftMonkey (paste-a-URL media extraction from social platforms — private beta). The studio is operated and engineered by founder Brett Passmore from Houston, Texas.

Approximately 95 words. Drop in verbatim or trim — the studio's name, the founder's name, the live product, the two private-beta products, and the founding year are the load-bearing facts.

Fact sheet

Legal name: Llama Monkey LLC
Display name: Llama Monkey
Pronunciation: LAH-mah MUNG-kee — rhymes with "drama" and "donkey." Two everyday English words, intentionally.
Founded: 2025
Headquarters: Houston, Texas, United States
Industry: Independent software studio (SaaS)
Headcount: One full-time operator (founder); occasional contract collaborators on specific product surfaces.
Founder: Brett Passmore — operator, founder, and engineer.
Canonical web address: https://www.llamamonkey.com
Product count (live): One live (SnapMonkey). Two in private beta (LMID, LiftMonkey). Three in scoping (QuoteLlama, LlamaLens, Vault).
Open-source surface: Platform-extraction track ships standalone Ruby gems under the llamamonkey-* namespace. See /open-source for the live list.
Stack (parent-brand site): Sinatra 4 on Ruby, PostgreSQL via Sequel, Postmark for transactional mail, deployed on Railway.

Leadership — Brett Passmore, founder

Brett Passmore is the founder of Llama Monkey LLC and the engineer behind every product the studio has shipped to date. Brett founded Llama Monkey in 2025 around a simple proposition: that small, focused tools beat sprawling platforms for the people doing creative work, and that one independent operator can ship and sustain a credible product family.

SnapMonkey — the studio's first shipped product — emerged from working photographers' need to move thousands of frames per shoot off the camera without a cabled laptop or a phone app. LMID and LiftMonkey followed as the holdco-product-family thesis took shape. The platform-extraction track (the llamamonkey-* gems) is the open-source spine that lets each product reuse the same identity, log shipping, and automation primitives.

More on the professional side: LinkedIn.

Brand kit — logos and palette

All Llama Monkey logos are available below for editorial use. Please link the logo back to https://www.llamamonkey.com when used in coverage.

Full logo — primary PNG, 300×373, transparent background Download PNG

Header logo — lockup PNG, transparent background, light-bg-safe Download PNG

Color palette — primary surfaces:

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SVG vector versions of the logos are not yet shipped; the PNG files above are the primary editorial assets today. Email [email protected] if you need a vector format and we'll send one over.

Products at a glance

SnapMonkey Live — automatic photo and video transfer from Canon WiFi cameras to OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox. Live at snapmonkey.app; product page on this site: /products/snapmonkey.
LMID Private beta — single sign-on across every Llama Monkey product. Staged GA in 2026. Provider lives at id.llamamonkey.com; product page: /products/lmid.
LiftMonkey Private beta — paste-a-URL photo and video extraction from social media, with optional cloud routing via SnapMonkey. Waitlist at liftmonkey.app; product page: /products/liftmonkey.

QuoteLlama (MSP quote-builder), LlamaLens (AI photo organization), and Vault (storage entitlement that lives inside LMID) are scoping — not yet shipped. Mention in coverage only if the story is specifically about Llama Monkey's roadmap.

Recent milestones

For the running, dated record of every notable release and infrastructure shift, see the public changelog: /changelog. The feed is also available as RSS for editorial use.

Highlights since founding:

2025 — Llama Monkey LLC founded; SnapMonkey ships to live customers.
2026 (current) — Parent-brand marketing site launches at www.llamamonkey.com; LMID + LiftMonkey enter private beta; platform-extraction track begins shipping Ruby gems.

Editorial guidance

On the name. "Llama Monkey" is two everyday English words combined into a studio name. The "llama" and "monkey" are intentional — they're not a reference to AI models, the LLaMA language model series, or any individual animal. Coverage should style the company name as "Llama Monkey LLC" on first reference and "Llama Monkey" thereafter; the studio uses neither acronym nor abbreviation.

On status. The parent brand is one shipped product (SnapMonkey) plus two private-beta products (LMID, LiftMonkey). Coverage that conflates "shipped" and "private beta" gets corrected; the press contact above is the corrections path.

On the founder-as-engineer story. The studio is currently a one-engineer operation. Coverage frames are most accurate when they treat that as a constraint Llama Monkey has chosen, not a fundraising signal — the studio is bootstrapped and intends to stay that way through at least the 2026 staged-GA cycle.

On comparisons to other products. The site carries three explicit comparison pages (/vs/zapier, /vs/okta, /vs/auth0) that lay out where each named competitor wins. Coverage that needs a "Llama Monkey vs <X>" framing is welcome to draw from those pages directly.