B-Maker
An application for planning, writing, editing, and preparing books for publication. The manuscript, versions, characters, and plot stay in one portable project.
Projects
Projects
Products, free tools, and new ideas — from architecture and decision support to working software.
Products
Working products
Independent software products, from idea and architecture to implementation.
MEnglish
Beginner English and basic maths through an A0 course, flashcards, speaking practice, visual novels, and standalone games.
CallPub
A browser-based room for audio and video calls, screen sharing, and real-time collaboration on a shared whiteboard.
CV Boost
A local-first workspace for CVs, cover letters, and interviews, with ATS checks and PDF and Word export.
Free tools
Free Tools
Small browser-based tools for technical and business decisions. No signup; calculations run locally in the browser.
Technical Debt Cost Calculator
Turns lost engineering time, incidents, and delivery friction into an estimated annual cost.
Build vs Buy Calculator
Compares the total cost of building internally versus buying an existing solution, including implementation, maintenance, infrastructure, and opportunity cost.
AI ROI Calculator
Estimates the real return of workplace AI using adoption, time savings, output quality, licenses, implementation, and ongoing governance costs.
Architecture Review
A 24-question review of system boundaries, reliability, data, security, operations, and cost of change, with an architecture score and critical gaps.
Vendor Risk Check
A quick IT vendor assessment with a risk score, dependency level, critical red flags, and a ready-to-share summary.
SaaS Waste Calculator
Estimates potential savings from unused and underused licenses, oversized plans, and overlapping SaaS tools.
Bus Factor Check
Finds critical knowledge that depends on one person, calculates a bus factor proxy, and shows knowledge redundancy.
SLO Calculator
Turns an SLO into an error budget in time and events, then shows budget consumption, remaining budget, and burn rate.
Postmortem Builder
Build a blameless incident postmortem with impact, timeline, root cause, contributing factors, lessons learned, and accountable action items.
SafePrompt
Locally checks prompts and working context for potential secrets, credentials, and personal data, then creates a redacted copy.
Tech Due Diligence Lite
A 30-question technical health check with an overall score, six category scores, and critical gaps.
Incident Cost Calculator
Estimates the real cost of a production incident through lost revenue, engineering and support time, compensation, and recovery spend.
Less serious tools
Scientifically Questionable Tools
A little workplace and management self-irony. The results are not scientific, but they can be uncomfortably recognizable.
Corporate Bullshit Index
12 questions about meetings, approvals, ownership, reporting, and priorities. See how much organizational energy disappears into friction.
Work Happiness Index
10 questions about focus, autonomy, meaning, support and work pace. Get a 0–100 score, a workplace archetype and your biggest work tax.
Meeting Tax Calculator
See the annual cost of one recurring meeting in money, person-hours, workdays, and the equivalent cost of one employee.
Micromanagement Index
12 questions about autonomy, approvals, reporting, monitoring and trust. See how much management has become a separate layer of work.
Context Switching Tax
See how much of the workday survives meetings, reactive communication and rebuilding context — in hours, days and money.
Friday Deployment Risk Index
12 questions about rollback, observability, blast radius, release process and support. See how brave your Friday deployment really is.
Startup Chaos Index
12 questions about priorities, ownership, planning, interruptions and information flow. See where startup speed is turning into operational noise.
Busyness Index
12 questions about meetings, messaging, reporting, urgency, switching and actual progress. See when visible busyness starts becoming the product.
Decision Latency Index
12 questions about ownership, approvals, context, escalation and reversibility. See how many days your company needs for a decision that should take 30 minutes.
Management Layers Tax
12 questions about layers, handoffs, escalation and context loss. See how much organizational tax a decision pays on the way through the structure.
Priority Inflation Index
12 questions about priority count, churn, work protection, trade-offs and ownership. See when everything becomes priority number one.
In development
Next products
Projects that are still in development or concept exploration.
HR Dream
A workspace for independent recruiters to manage candidate pipelines and keep a complete history of client interactions.
In development
Proj4Us
A project management system for planning work, tracking progress, and keeping teams coordinated.
In development
DB Plan
A database design tool with preliminary storage capacity and resource requirement estimates.
In development
DrawIt
A visual editor for creating diagrams, processes, connections, and other structured schemes.
In development
MindS
A mind-mapping workspace for structuring ideas, knowledge, and plans.
In development
ArchPlan
A high-level IT architecture design system for mapping components, systems, and integrations.
In development