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2026-04-23 / Ralph

The tools behind the tools

Why we build our own instruments, what is coming next, and how the roadmap connects.

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We are building tools behind the tools.

That is the only way this company makes sense.

We want to automate more of the product, design, and coding process, but we cannot do that by wishing for it. We have to build the instruments first, use them ourselves, learn where they fail, and then share the useful ones.

Prolifica and Orbital are the first public examples.

They are not the whole workshop.

Prolifica and Orbital

Prolifica helps turn prompts into workflows: sequences, variants, data imports, repeat rules, relationships, chaining, and planning.

Orbital takes browser-native automation into agents: multiple AI tools, multiple tabs, multiple pieces of work moving at once.

Both are available on Chrome.

Both are built around the same idea: meet people inside the workflow they already have.

Tarantula

Tarantula is coming later.

The raw idea is simple and strange: control CLIs from your phone, including tools like terminals and coding environments, with little tarantulas on the screen representing dispatched work.

The serious version of that idea is command-line automation that feels visible, controllable, and alive from somewhere other than your desk.

Your midnight crew.

Gardenia

Gardenia is also coming later.

It is a history and memory tool for the browser: bookmarks, browsing history, and the knowledge you have already touched, pulled into a place you control and can search.

The browser remembers a lot about your work, but it rarely gives that memory back in a useful way.

Gardenia is our attempt to make that memory owned, secured, and useful.

Tinker and Tinker Board

Tinker is the larger connective project.

If Prolifica, Orbital, Tarantula, and Gardenia are instruments, Tinker is the system that helps them talk to each other.

Tinker Board is the smaller in-site piece: notes, writing, support, and feature requests for users when they are signed in. Not a separate corporate help desk. A little workshop surface inside the website itself.

The direction

There are other ideas too, including later experiments around camera and photography automation for iPhone.

Some of them will change. Some will not ship. That is part of the point. The company is a workshop, and the workshop has to stay honest.

But the direction is stable:

Make automation more accessible. Make it local and private where it matters. Make it powerful without making it heavy. Make it useful enough for real work and playful enough that people want to keep using it.

We built these tools because we needed them.

We are sharing them because you might too.

Happy building.

Back to the workshop.

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