Bismarck AI is an experiment in agent orchestration and harness UI/UX presented as a Victoria II/EU5-style grand strategy game, set in a distinctly fictional world of anthropomorphic walruses fighting swarming bugs controlled by the Froggy Empire.
EXPLe Dev
Developer tools and agent infrastructure — the build-for-builders division.
Products
LLM cost intelligence with a maintained API cost calculator, calcLLM: Trace for production LLM/API costs, and calcLLM: Crew for AI coding-tool costs. The calculator estimates frontier-model token spend, history, reasoning, caching and long-context pricing. Trace remains planned; Crew is synthetic-tested and awaiting live provider qualification.
AI form-builder code and research preserved after the product was killed before deployment: crowded commodity economics and weak differentiation did not justify the compliance, integration, infrastructure, and customer-support burden.
AI coding subscription pacing app for Claude, Codex, Gemini, and future providers; Pitwall Local is in technical GitHub beta/source-install readiness, while the monorepo preserves the path to a future CalcLLM-powered connected edition with opt-in cloud sync and team cost dashboards.
Code snippet manager prototype preserved after the standalone commercial thesis was killed: a real Clerk, tRPC, semantic-search, Gist-import, billing, and VS Code extension foundation never established validated demand or enough differentiation to justify launch and ongoing support.
Config-as-code PostHog implementation and research preserved after the standalone product thesis was killed: computer-use automation absorbed most click-ops, no TrackCTL-specific demand was validated, and the remaining cross-cutting secrets problem belongs in the EnvBank experiment.
AI-powered raster-to-vector conversion for Glowforge, xTool, and Cricut fabricators; dormant because it is not currently testable and should not be treated as live revenue work.
Validation-stage resilient browser-session control plane for AI agents — one versioned JSON contract planned across CLI, HTTP API, and MCP adapters, with semantic snapshots, explicit reconnect/resume behavior, and causal replay
Block-based web terminal library — five-package TypeScript/React monorepo (core, parser, block-model, transport, react) with CI
An always-on workstation for AI coding agents, with persistent sessions and an Agent Board for monitoring and control. The MVP is implemented; VPS reliability, durable history, and Mac-to-phone continuity are undergoing validation. Our first brand rebirth: gBlockParty now names the agent workstation; its original content platform is archived.
OSS desktop front-end for local and GBlockParty-managed agent/browser workspaces.
GSkillPacks' current commercial product thesis was killed after its alignment- and interrogation-heavy workflow imposed too much ceremony. The public agentic-skills repository, published skillpacks package, domain, and reusable workflow library remain preserved as active OSS/shared infrastructure; an alignment/interrogation-less v2 has not yet been activated.
Owned domain awaiting mission assignment. No codebase, no users — held in reserve.
AI coding-tool cost intelligence for engineering leaders, with per-person and team breakdowns, budgets, and reporting. The application is implemented and tested with synthetic data. Codex, Cursor, and Claude Code adapters await live qualification; the pilot remains blocked on eligible administrator access and qualifying usage.
Production LLM and API cost intelligence for startup CTOs — answers why the bill is 3x what token pricing implies, within the calcLLM product line
Auto-generated, auto-maintained product tutorials and videos from a GitHub repo plus staging app — YAML-defined flows regenerated in CI/CD for DevRel teams
Mobile remote control for AI coding agents over SSH — Expo/React Native client with a tmux session UI for monitoring and driving Claude Code sessions from a phone
AI-powered SVG animation tool — describe an animation in text and get SMIL/CSS output, backed by Gemini
Visual review and monitoring for agent-proposed Terraform deployments. Inspect infrastructure changes and diagnostics in interactive AWS architecture diagrams, review saved plans, and follow Terraform apply progress. Agent plugin packaging and approval-workflow integration are planned.
TypeScript SDK for multi-agent AI apps — DAG task decomposition, parallel agent execution, token budgets, and streaming
NixOS-based operating system optimized for agentic coding — CLI agents, headless agent desktop, CDP browser control, and computer use from one flake building a QEMU VM, ISO, or WSL image.
Operations
Operations run company-wide today and are not yet scoped to individual business units. See the full slate on the Operations page.
Portfolio Readiness
| Product | Portfolio status | Lifecycle | Public destination |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic Coding OS | Incubating | incubating | No public URL |
| Automium | Building | active | No public URL |
| Bismarck AI | v5 Phase 1 | active | Linked |
| calcLLM | Calculator Launched | active | Linked |
| calcLLM: Crew | In Development | incubating | No public URL |
| calcLLM: Trace | Planned | incubating | No public URL |
| Chromux | Incubating | incubating | Linked |
| FormForge | Killed | killed | No public URL |
| gBlockParty | In Development | incubating | Linked |
| GSkillPacks | Killed | killed | Linked |
| lexterm.js | Dormant | sleeper | No public URL |
| Pitwall | OSS Launch Prep | active | No public URL |
| PMF Hunt | Dormant | sleeper | No public URL |
| ReWalkthrough | Incubating | incubating | No public URL |
| rssh.ai | Dormant | sleeper | No public URL |
| SnipVault | Killed | killed | No public URL |
| SVG Spawn | Dormant | sleeper | No public URL |
| tfviz | Shipped | maintenance | No public URL |
| TrackCTL | Killed | killed | No public URL |
| Two-Layer Cake | Shipped | maintenance | No public URL |
| VectorFit | Dormant | sleeper | No public URL |