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Scalpels is officially launching on October 31, 2026. Special early adopter pricing is available now.

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 $100 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

Where everything lives

Their GitHub organisation
The forked application repository, MIT licensed, theirs to keep.
Their Laravel Cloud account
Compute, database, queues, cache and object storage are provisioned under their account.
Their data
Never leaves their infrastructure. Scalpels has no copy of it to lose.

The catalog

What you install for clients

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

Crate

Any stack

A Satis-wrapper, optimized for internal distribution of composer packages backed by private GitHub repos.

MIT licensed
Read about Crate Repository
Read more about Crate

Hone

Laravel

Hone collects your Laravel app's Nightwatch telemetry and routes it to a server you control, exposing the data via REST and MCP.

MIT licensed
Read about Hone Repository
Read more about Hone

Matte

Any stack

Matte lets you run your own unmetered image background API using the same ONNX/U²-Net ML that popular background removers use.

MIT licensed
Read about Matte Repository
Read more about Matte

Sink

Any stack

Sink provides a mail driver for Laravel that sends everything to your own server so your staging environments can safely send email for you to inspect.

MIT licensed
Read about Sink Repository
Read more about Sink

Bobbin

Any stack

A stable, hard-to-guess capture URL for every integration, on infrastructure you own. Bobbin stores each request that arrives — method, query string, headers, body and the time it landed — so you can read exactly what a provider sent, and replay any capture to one destination with retries and visible delivery status. Retention and redaction are set per endpoint.

MIT licensed
Read about Bobbin Repository
Read more about Bobbin

Capstan

Any stack

AI in multiplayer mode: Gated artifact sharing, primitive handoffs, an org knowledge base, distributed event-driven workflows, and role-addressed collaboration.

MIT licensed
Read about Capstan Repository
Read more about Capstan

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

Reel is session replay you host yourself, recorded with rrweb, so recordings of your users stay on your own infrastructure.

MIT licensed
Read about Reel Repository
Read more about Reel

Slate

Any stack

Send Slate a recipe — a short JSON description of the video you want — and it renders an MP4 with a pinned ffmpeg on your own queue, then hands back one signed download URL. You never pass ffmpeg arguments: named operations with typed, validated parameters compile the command line, which is a security boundary rather than a convenience, because ffmpeg can read and write files and URLs.

MIT licensed
Read about Slate Repository
Read more about Slate

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 receives Unlimited permanently.

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.

Early access

One payment. Lifetime listing.

Basic — lifetime Standard

$1,000 once

Buy early access

Premium — lifetime Featured

$2,000 once

Buy early access

Standard

Directory listing

Listed in the partner directory.

From $100 / month

or $1,000 / year — two months on us

  • A Standard directory listing
  • Up to 10 client teams
  • Permanent Unlimited for every client team
  • Premium support

Featured

Featured listing

Placed above Standard listings in the partner directory.

From $200 / month

or $2,000 / year — two months on us

  • A Featured directory listing
  • Up to 10 client teams
  • Permanent Unlimited for every client team
  • Premium support

Founders

Front page

A fixed front-page placement when this rung becomes available.

From $500 / month

or $5,000 / year — two months on us

  • A front-page listing
  • Up to 10 client teams
  • Permanent Unlimited for every client team
  • Premium support

Not yet available

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 licensed (mostly MIT) and public on GitHub. You are free to whatever you wish with them.

Start with Standard

Move up when the additional placement is worth it.

See the rungs