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For freelancers

We built Scalpels to help you close more deals

Shedding monthly subscriptions is on the mind of the clients you want to work with. Our freelancer plans help you make that easy for them to do well.

Freelancer listings start at $20 a month.

Your clients
Client
Northgate Dental northgate-dental · their Cloud account
Vale Freight vale-freight · their Cloud account
Harlow Legal harlow-legal · their Cloud account
Sunbelt Rentals Co. sunbelt-rentals-co. · their Cloud account

Our freelancer offering

Lead Generation
We put your name in front of prospective clients in your timezone.
Priority Support
Direct access to us to fast-track bug reports and feature requests.
Extended Catalog
Access to our newest applications for yourself and your clients from day one.

The catalog

What you install for clients

Every Built for Cloud app is open source, public on GitHub, and runs in the owner’s own infrastructure.

Draw

Laravel

Draw gives each person private boards and lets them share a board with one teammate or the whole team, with view or edit access. It uses the excellent Excalidraw editor, adds read-only signed links and live WebSocket updates, and gives agents an MCP door for sketching.

MIT licensed
Read about Draw Repository
Read more about Draw

Hone

Laravel

Self-hosted application telemetry: slow requests, slow queries, job durations, exceptions, rolled into daily aggregates you can query across deploys. It also exposes an MCP server, so an agent can answer "what's my slowest query?" from your own data.

MIT licensed
Read about Hone Repository
Read more about Hone

Matte

Any stack

Background removal as an API you own: submit an image, poll the job, fetch a transparent PNG, on your compute and your storage instead of a per-image invoice. Classical and ML modes are both built in, and anything that can speak HTTP can call it.

MIT licensed
Read about Matte Repository
Read more about Matte

SimpleStats

Marketplace
Any stack

Install SimpleStats for free into your own GitHub and Laravel Cloud accounts. You run the app independently after installation and pay Laravel Cloud for the infrastructure.

AGPL-3.0-only licensed
Read about SimpleStats Repository
Read more about SimpleStats

Sink

Any stack

A mail trap for staging and CI: outbound mail is captured to an inbox your team can read instead of being delivered. Laravel apps get a drop-in mail transport; anything else posts to the ingest endpoint, and a body-blind MCP server lets agents assert on mail without reading it.

MIT licensed
Read about Sink Repository
Read more about Sink

Assay

Laravel

See which providers and models your Laravel AI applications call, how many tokens they use, which runs fail, and what happened inside each tree. Assay keeps that telemetry on infrastructure you control and turns selected production traffic into curated JSONL datasets.

MIT licensed
Read about Assay Repository
Read more about Assay

Bobbin

Any stack

A simple webhook gateway that captures incoming webhooks and passes them on to a single destination.

MIT licensed
Read about Bobbin Repository
Read more about Bobbin

Capstan

Capstan is a self-hosted Laravel application an organisation forks, deploys to its own infrastructure, and runs for itself. It ships two capabilities: artifact hosting for privately stored HTML served through signed, expiring links from an isolated origin, and Postmaster, a signed message bus command-line agents poll to hand work to each other. One deployment belongs to one organisation, which owns the server, database, and data.

MIT licensed
Read about Capstan Repository
Read more about Capstan

Crate

Any stack

Crate is a fork-and-deploy Satis wrapper behind a credential gate: register the private repositories you want to serve, build Composer metadata and mirrored dist archives, then point your own applications at your Crate host. Each deployment is single-tenant by construction and lives in your own Laravel Cloud account, with no per-seat bill and no third party holding your private packages. It is headless in this release: access is credential-level rather than per-package.

MIT licensed
Read about Crate Repository
Read more about Crate

Muster

Any stack

A scheduled task that silently stops running is the failure nothing complains about. Muster is the thing that complains: every task gets a monitor with an expected rhythm, and a run that does not report in on time goes late, then missed, and raises an email or a webhook. Connect a Laravel app and each of its scheduled commands registers itself on its first run — with no per-monitor billing.

MIT licensed
Read about Muster Repository
Read more about Muster

Reel

Laravel

Session replay you host yourself, recorded with rrweb, so recordings of your users stay on your own infrastructure. It captures sanitised DOM events rather than video, and correlates a session with the Laravel request behind it, so an error you are chasing arrives with the recording of the person who hit it.

MIT licensed
Read about Reel Repository
Read more about Reel

Sesame

Any stack

Sesame answers SES v2 SendEmail calls, draws a seeded outcome for every recipient, and posts SNS notifications signed in the real format back to your webhook. It keeps the ground truth, so a staging load run checks correctness as well as speed. It is an experimental proof of concept: an install does not yet run the data plane, so it is not ready for real use.

MIT licensed
Read about Sesame Repository
Read more about Sesame

Slate

Any stack

Offload your ffmpeg video rendering to wake-on-demand workers

MIT licensed
Read about Slate Repository
Read more about Slate

Telltale

Laravel

See which screens your NativePHP app's users reach, how sessions and releases behave, and which PHP errors they hit — without shipping device telemetry to somebody else's analytics account. The server runs in your own Laravel Cloud account and your agents read it over MCP.

MIT licensed
Read about Telltale Repository
Read more about Telltale

Wake

Laravel

Every Laravel application you run ships its log lines to one Wake installation, which keeps them as Parquet on your own bucket and a small query plane in your own Postgres. There is no human log viewer: agents read across all of your apps through one MCP server, so "which apps are throwing this exception?" is a question you can ask rather than a morning of tab-switching.

Read about Wake Repository
Read more about Wake

Witness

Prepare one PDF, send it to parallel signers, collect typed or drawn signatures, and deliver a completed copy with an audit trail and Certificate of Completion. Witness runs in your own Laravel Cloud account and stays deliberately on the simple-signature side of the line.

MIT licensed
Read about Witness Repository
Read more about Witness

Freelancers pricing

A no-brainer for an independent practice.

Every rung includes a directory listing, premium support, and up to 10 client teams. Each client team gets the Experimental apps for life.

Every app for every client

All of your clients get our entire current and future catalog at no cost to you or them.

Influence the roadmap

Help us choose which incumbent SaaS to help your clients replace next.

Premium support

Your clients' bug reports and feature requests at the top of the list, and a direct line to us.

Lifetime

One payment. Lifetime listing.

Pay once for a listing that never lapses, instead of paying monthly.

Standard

Directory listing

Listed in the partner directory.

$20 / month

Your price is locked in for as long as you stay

  • Listed in the partner directory
  • Shown on product pages to visitors near you
  • Up to 10 client teams
See everything included

Front Page

Front page + shows

On the Scalpels front page, and in the shows.

$250 / month

Your price is locked in for as long as you stay

  • On the Scalpels front page
  • First among freelancers near each visitor
  • In the show notes of every episode of our shows
  • Up to 10 client teams
See everything included

Every Built for Cloud app remains open-source licensed and public. You can always fork it yourself.

Browse the repositories

How it works

Three steps, then repeat

01

Connect the client’s accounts

Connect GitHub and Laravel Cloud once.

02

Install what is needed

Pick from the catalog and deploy into the account that owns the work.

03

Wire applications to it

Credentials land in the consuming application’s environment.

Questions

The practical details

What happens if I stop paying?

Nothing changes for any of your clients. Everything you set up for them is theirs to keep forever.

Whose account does the work land in?

Scalpels makes it easy for you to fork apps into your clients' GitHub organizations and deploy to your clients' Laravel Cloud accounts. Your client stays in control of everything from day one.

Can we just use these apps without paying you?

Yes. Every Built for Cloud app is open source and public on GitHub. You are free to do whatever you wish with them.

Start with Standard

Move up when the additional placement is worth it.

See the rungs