# Catalyst Forge

> A two-person shop that builds AI products and publishes the practice. Tools we built, then gave away.

The tools shelf is a master-detail page. Read the markdown directory for the full catalog.

## Tools

- [Tools directory](https://catalystforge.com/tools.md): Name, tagline, description, facts, and links for every public tool
- [Tools as JSON](https://catalystforge.com/tools.json): Same catalog, machine-readable
- [Tools shelf](https://catalystforge.com/tools/): Human browse page

## Practice & standards

- [ForgeTrail](https://forgetrail.dev): Keep the next session from starting from zero.
- [Smell Check](https://smellcheck.dev): Editorial rules for prose that has earned its wording.
- [Detangler](https://detangler.dev): Find broken references, contradictions, and flows that no longer connect.
- [Misemphasis](https://misemphasis.com): Find the other reading a sentence already allows.
- [Cold-eye](https://coldeye.dev): Check whether a newcomer can use what you are about to ship.
- [TemperPass](https://temperpass.dev): Name consequential assumptions before hard-to-undo work.
- [Gap Last](https://gaplast.dev): Name what is still unknown before you propose a cause.

## Research & briefings

- [EmberDossier](https://emberdossier.com): A briefing that starts with what is true now.

## Nutrition labels

- [xFacts](https://xfacts.dev): Structured labels for apps, models, tools, agents, and skills.

## Publishing

- [FilePress](https://getfilepress.com): Turns a folder of Markdown into a static site.

## Local inference

- [ollanet](https://ollanet.dev): Find, manage, and use Ollama hosts you choose.
- [Finetuna](https://finetuna.net): An Ollama runtime tuner. Weights are not trained.

## Capture & preserve

- [DictaWhisper](https://dictawhisper.com): A local voice journal. Audio stays on your computer.
- [HaulOut](https://haulout.dev): Pull the open AI chat off the site as Markdown or JSON.
- [MediaTuna](https://mediatuna.dev): Old files, still playable.
- [IngotVault](https://ingotvault.dev): Back up covered local branches and tags to a drive you control.

## Document editing

- [DocuPuncture](https://docupuncture.dev): Targeted Apps Script edits on the Google file you already have.

## Local development

- [LocalSlip](https://localslip.dev): A named registry for local development ports.
- [LocalHelm](https://localhelm.dev): A status board for the local repos you choose to track.
- [gui4cli](https://gui4cli.dev): A desktop form for a Node CLI.

## Personal finance

- [ForeBalance](https://forebalance.app): See when entered cash flows cross your thresholds.

## Writing

- [Blog](https://catalystforge.com/blog/): Essays on agents, practice, and shipping

## Optional

- [Exec Foundry](https://execfoundry.com): Job search tools for senior professionals. The AI carries the volume. You keep the judgment.
- [ForgeTrail](https://forgetrail.dev): A persistent development system for AI coding agents. The next session picks up the trail.