IntelliBotique
Websites, AI tools, automation, and copy with a journalist's hand on it, for sole proprietors through midsized firms. Home of the Crucible, the Forge, SiteCrafters, and the Kiosk.
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Three studios, one workbench.
IntelliBotique takes the client work. TranquilTech makes the products. The Democracy Studio makes tools for people going up against a process. All of it runs out of eleven acres outside Nevada City, and all of it is live — every site is here.
3Studios
10Pieces in the showroom
21Years of work
TranquilTech
Software for the work of being human, together. Attuned, JobGenie, Inner Workings, Mycelial, and Kindling, an open protocol for human connection.
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The Democracy Studio
Democracy runs on paperwork, and most of it is unusable. Civic software and campaigns that make public records and legal processes something a person can use.
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The Crucible
An AI contractor that builds any web software to spec. Five questions before a line of code, six gates before delivery, and software you own at the end.
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Attuned
It asks how you actually work, then builds and hosts the business around it. TranquilTech's flagship.
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Kindling
An open spec for human connection where the introduction is the product. Apache 2.0 code, CC BY 4.0 spec.
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SiteCrafters and the Kiosk
A website refreshed in about an hour, with me or on your own at the Kiosk. The Kiosk was the studio's first build engine; the Forge grew out of it.
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Intelli.boutique
Hand-crafted software, kept in working order. Ten finished pieces from the studios, hung one at a time with the date each was added.
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NeuroSpicy Refugees
A free community for neurodivergent adults, run by consensus. I helped start it and steward it; TranquilTech covers what it costs to run.
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The Pickaxe years and the old rack
Pickaxe's first brand evangelist, Semantic Prompt Design, and thirty-five chatbots built along the way. The story of how the studio got here.
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