Tools
Free tools for people who think out loud, write under their own name, and run on AI that respects them — built by Paul Welty
A growing collection of free tools — most useful in under a minute, no signup required. Each one is also a small bet about what the underlying product can become.
For research and intelligence
Competitor tracking template
A focused watchlist for the competitors actually moving in your space. Drop in three names plus a sentence about what matters to you, and the template builds a tracking sheet — disambiguators (so “Apple” doesn’t return fruit-pricing news), search terms tuned to your “what matters,” and the source set most likely to surface signal.
Built on top of Eclectis, the daily intelligence-briefing engine. The same primitives that score 200 articles a day in private feeds are exposed here as a public template.
Use the competitor tracking template →
For writers and publishers
Markdown frontmatter → CSV
Point it at a folder of Hugo, Jekyll, or Eleventy posts. It walks the directory, parses the frontmatter, and hands you a clean CSV with one row per post. Useful for editorial audits, content inventories, and the kind of “what do we actually have published?” question that ends with a senior person staring at a sidebar tree for forty minutes.
Built into Textorium, the native Mac editor for static-site projects.
Shipping today — link will be live once Tex deploys.
More on the way
The full free-tools shelf is being built out one tool per product:
- Authexis — a voice-first thought-leadership analyzer. Talk for two minutes; get a structured read on what you actually think.
- Diktura — a customer-feedback cost forecaster. Stop guessing what Canny is going to charge you next quarter.
- Eclectis — competitor tracking template (above). More research utilities to follow.
- Textorium — frontmatter → CSV (above). More small editorial utilities to follow.
Each free tool is built from the same primitives as its parent product. If a tool helps, the product probably will too.
The products behind the tools
If the tools earn a place in your workflow, the products that fund them are at /products.