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Crate

Hone

Matte

Sink

Assay

Bobbin

Capstan

Where everything lives

Your GitHub Organization: Each app is open-source. Scalpels will fork it into your GitHub org for you.
Your Laravel Cloud Account: Compute, database, queues, cache and object storage are provisioned under your own account.
Your Data: Never leaves your infrastructure. Scalpels has no copy of it to lose.

Expertly crafted and diligently maintained

Each of our apps aims directly at one hard problem and solves it well. Scalpels gives you a unified dashboard and MCP to control them all.

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Crate

Any stack

A self-hosted, unmetered private Composer registry for Laravel, on Laravel Cloud.

MIT licensed

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Hone

Laravel

Self-hosted application telemetry for Laravel — your data, your infrastructure.

MIT licensed

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Matte

Any stack

A background-removal image API you host yourself on Laravel Cloud.

MIT licensed

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Sink

Any stack

A self-hosted mail trap for Laravel staging and CI — capture outbound email instead of sending it.

MIT licensed

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Assay

Laravel

Self-hosted AI telemetry and dataset curation for Laravel applications using laravel/ai.

MIT licensed

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Bobbin

Any stack

Catch third-party webhooks, inspect exactly what arrived, and replay them onward.

MIT licensed

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Capstan

Any stack

A fork-and-deploy AI ecosystem server one organisation runs for itself.

MIT licensed

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Muster

Any stack

Self-hosted heartbeat and cron monitoring for scheduled tasks and background services.

MIT licensed

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Reel

Laravel

Customer-owned browser session replay for debugging Laravel applications.

MIT licensed

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Slate

Any stack

Self-hosted video rendering on Laravel Cloud, with nobody metering your output.

MIT licensed

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Telltale

Laravel

Self-hosted product analytics and PHP error reporting for NativePHP desktop and mobile apps.

MIT licensed

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Wake

Laravel

A self-hosted central log sink for every Laravel app your organisation runs.

MIT licensed

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Witness

Laravel

Self-hosted simple e-signatures for PDFs, with verification codes, audit trails and completion certificates.

MIT licensed

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How it works

Three steps to replace your subscriptions

Connect your accounts

Once

Install the GitHub App and add a scoped Laravel Cloud key. Forks land in the organization you pick, and everything Scalpels provisions from here lands in that account, on your bill. Add a Forge key too if some of your apps run there.

Install a tool

Included

Pick a product, review what it will provision, and Scalpels forks it into your organization and deploys it to your Cloud account. You keep the repository in your GitHub account. Opt in to automatic updates or manage updates yourself.

Integrate with your projects

Included

For tools like Hone and Matte that are used by your own projects, integration is a couple of clicks if your project is on Laravel Cloud or Forge. If not, we make it easy for you and your coding agent to integrate any project anywhere.

Need a little help?

We partner with these top agencies and freelancers

Every new customer gets a one-hour onboarding call to help get everything set up. When you are ready to schedule it, we will help to match you with an an agency or freelancer in your timezone, fluent in your language. The provider bills us for the call, and there is no cost to you.

Agencies

A whole crew of helping hands.

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Artisan Build

USA

We run Scalpels, as well as a suite of other tools for developers and development teams.

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Freelancers

An extra pair of expert hands.

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Sputnik Intelligence

Spain

We transcribe the podcasts and read the newsletters, and make them searchable. Set up alerts, or hand it all to your AI agent over MCP or API.

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Questions worth asking

Do I have to pay to use these apps?

No. Every Built for Cloud app is open source and public on GitHub. Fork it, deploy it, and run it without a Scalpels account.

Where do my apps actually run?

On your own Laravel Cloud account. We fork the application into your GitHub organization and install it on your Laravel Cloud account. Everything we host is pass-thru. A unified dashboard to jump between your deployed apps and an MCP server that routes your agent to your apps' own MCP servers.

Does Scalpels store my application data?

No. The only data we store is your team roster so that we can provide the unified dashboard and pass-thru MCP server. None of your application data exists on or transits through Scalpels.

What does Laravel Cloud cost?

Whatever Laravel charges you, on your own account. Scalpels never sits between you and that bill. By default, we provision resources that are set to scale to zero, so low-use apps could cost pennies.

Is Scalpels really free?

Yes. Installing apps, connecting your projects, the dashboard and the MCP server are all free. Supporters keep it that way, and they get the Experimental apps before those launch for everyone.

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