Replace expensive subscriptions. No vibe coding.

Professionally built, expertly maintained software that you host yourself.

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Hone

Matte

SimpleStats

Sink

Assay

Bobbin

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.

What Scalpels keeps

Your team roster

Who is on your team, so everyone signs in to one dashboard.
The connections you grant

The GitHub App install and scoped Laravel Cloud and Forge keys, so we can fork, deploy and update for you.

What Scalpels never stores

Application data
Logs
Captured mail
Telemetry
Files and uploads
Your Cloud bill

Leave whenever you like. The repositories, the deployments and the data stay exactly where they are.

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.

App	Connects to	License	Links
Matte MCP A background-removal image API you host yourself on Laravel Cloud.	Any stack	MIT licensed	Repository
SimpleStats Marketplace Website analytics you host in your own Laravel Cloud account.	Any stack	AGPL-3.0-only licensed	Repository
Sink MCP A self-hosted mail trap for Laravel staging and CI — capture outbound email instead of sending it.	Any stack	MIT licensed	Repository
Bobbin MCP Catch third-party webhooks, inspect exactly what arrived, and replay them onward.	Any stack	MIT licensed	Repository
Crate MCP A self-hosted, unmetered private Composer registry for Laravel, on Laravel Cloud.	Any stack	MIT licensed	Repository
Muster MCP Self-hosted heartbeat and cron monitoring for scheduled tasks and background services.	Any stack	MIT licensed	Repository
Sesame MCP A simulated Amazon SES for staging load runs, with signed SNS feedback you can reconcile.	Any stack	MIT licensed	Repository
Slate MCP Self-hosted video rendering on Laravel Cloud, with nobody metering your output.	Any stack	MIT licensed	Repository

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

These agencies and freelancers are standing by and ready to help you get everything set up.

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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Projekt Gopher Mutimedia

Vancouver, BC

ProjektGopher specializes in media production pipelines and processes.

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Freelancers

An extra pair of expert hands.

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Scott Keck-Warren

Michigan

PHP and Laravel developer with 13 years of experience building and maintaining production apps. US Eastern, English.

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Supporters

Scalpels wouldn't exist without our supporters

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Fawnfox Fables

Create and publish your own children's books. Stories built around the people you love.

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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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Wicked Viral

Earth

Connecting builders with promoters who can help them take their products to market. Get your product listed today!

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Chill Vibes

A curated collection of fun and interesting experiments and projects built with AI to entertain and educate.

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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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