Software we run before you ever see it.
Apps and tools built for ourselves first. They earn their place here by running in production on our own infrastructure, on our own data, before we release them to anyone else.
The ledger
stillPUB
A free, browser-based replacement for Microsoft Publisher, which Microsoft retires in October 2026. Opens real .pub files and keeps them editable, right in your browser. No accounts, no uploads.
read more → ■ Live, freeHundred Stories
A free tower-building simulation inspired by SimTower. Build a tower from a vacant lot to a hundred-story landmark, manage tenants, and keep them happy. Runs in your browser with no accounts and no tracking.
read more → ■ Liveitworks
A Claude Code plugin for closeout audits. Each audit is posted on itworks.build with its date and the criticals still open, and the badge says so in a README.
read more → ○ in developmentParallax Recon
A security snapshot for small businesses, from an iPhone. Real DNS, TLS, and email-posture checks against your domain, summarized in plain English. Nothing to install, nothing to configure.
read more → ■ free checks livepostmortem.report
Free email and domain checks that run in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. The email check is mailautopsy, our open-source engine: every finding cites the evidence it came from, unknown is a real answer, and it never calls an email safe.
read more → ■ running in-houseMailGuard Monitor
DMARC monitoring and policy enforcement, run as a service. Aggregate reports from our own domains feed a parser, a dashboard, and an automated DMARC policy ramp on our own servers. A one-page domain checker for client conversations came out of the same work.
see the pipeline → ■ available nowCustom builds
The same team builds automation and apps for small businesses. If something above is close to what you need but not quite, tell us what would make it right.
talk to us →Field notes
Apex: the tool factory
We let an AI system build our software catalog for four months. 415 autonomous cycles, 134 tools, zero human-written code, one deliberate shutdown. Its tools still clock in daily behind our consulting work.
field note 01 → ■ archived, lessons keptGenesis: the program that rewrote itself
A binary that read its own source, decided what it was missing, and built it. 216 cycles in 18 days, five self-chosen capabilities, and two failures that taught us more than the wins.
field note 02 →More notes as experiments earn them. Stories are updated in place, with a revision line, not reposted.
House rules
We are user zero
Nothing ships that we don't run ourselves first. Every product here started as something we needed and refused to outsource.
Your data isn't the product
No ads, no brokers, no analytics SDKs. Where a server is involved, it's ours, it encrypts at rest, and it deletes what it no longer needs.
Status labels are honest
"In development" means not done. "Coming soon" means running but not public. We'd rather undersell than walk anything back.
First access
Early invites go out by email, and we don't use your address for anything else. Tell us which product you're watching.