Everything I build, and how you get it.

If you ask me to build it, it costs

Being asked is what makes it paid work, and there is no exception to that. The price does not turn on what you intend to do with it. At the end you hold the source, the database and the intellectual property outright — not a licence, and not access that ends when I do.

That handover is the reason a commission costs what it costs. It is not an extra sold back to you later; it is priced in from the start, and it is the expensive part.

What I choose to release is free

Some of what I build, I built for my own reasons. Once it works, handing the same thing to everybody else costs me nothing, so I hand it over — no catch, no trial, no nag screen.

That is a decision I make about my own work rather than something anybody applies for. It is also the front door: people find the released thing, and the commissions follow from it.

HorseDex

A health journal for a horse. You write down what you did and what you saw; it keeps the record and shows it back to you over time, for one horse or for several. Built for one person to begin with, then rebuilt so anyone could use it, and released free on the App Store.

Launchdeck

Every place a startup item can hide — registry keys, startup folders, scheduled tasks, services, drivers, launch agents and daemons, login items, cron — in one window, on Windows and macOS. Task Manager shows a curated subset of two of those surfaces; I wanted the whole list, so I built it, and then released it with the code.

Bakeoff

Give three local models the same task, watch their answers stream in three columns side by side, and judge them yourself — speed, quality and the shape of the output — with no black-box scorer in between. A benchmark tells you how a model does on someone else’s work; this tells you how it does on yours, on your own machine. Windows and macOS, and it runs entirely against your own Ollama.

Made for the one occasion

Your names, your running order, your photographs, your wording. Built for that day and nothing else, which is exactly why it does not feel like a product.

• Hosted for five years, then yours to take away — it does not expire because a card did
• Your photographs stay yours, downloadable in one go
• A memorial page is �495; a wedding page from �695

Where the other one comes in

I run two businesses and keep them apart on purpose, so each one can be aimed properly. Code is what I ship myself.

Kalkman Digital is for a business that wants to grow and to keep running — a new website, complete brand design, SEO and search including AI visibility, a ground-up review of the tech behind it, and ongoing IT support.