Merely LLC · Ashland, Kentucky

Tools for people who are their own infrastructure.

We build local-first software, graph-shaped web tools, and community-owned radio systems. The work is open, inspectable, and made to keep working on your own terms.

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community radio

Retinue · field status

Radios that work when the towers do not.

Small LoRa radios relay encrypted messages device to device without cell towers, internet service, or a monthly bill. Three units are exchanging data on the workbench today. The next field target is a ten-site FIVCO pilot.

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radios on air: 3
mesh standards: 3
unit cost: ~ a tank of gas
monthly bill: none

software in view

A few current surfaces from the same public repository family. Each profile names the working boundary, its state, and the projects around it.

Graphshell displaying a local Mere graph arranged as a grid beside search, arrangement, and transfer controls.

Mere · platform · active

One graph model, carried between applications.

Mere gives Merely applications portable contracts for content, arrangement, memory, identity, and trusted exchange. Graphshell proves those projection contracts in a small reference host, and Pelt, the thin reference browser, has been a Mere port over Genet since the Cambium user-interface family moved here on 2026-09-03.

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Pelt showing two tiled panes under a single-row chrome carrying its own window controls: the Merely home page in the left pane with a second tab behind it, and the Floodgap Gopher menu set in monospace on the right.

Genet · platform · active

Web content as an embeddable engine.

Genet separates documents, layout, scripting, and realization so a host can take the browser profile it needs. Its own reference host is ortet: one chrome-free binary that drives a session directly and proves the engine runs without the application framework above it. Pelt, the browser in these captures, moved to Mere on 2026-09-03.

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Turnstone showing a graph canvas beside two tiled web documents for IANA and Example Domain.

Turnstone · product · prototype

Browse a web of things, not a stack of tabs.

Turnstone keeps pages, media, and notes as graph nodes that can be related, arranged, and opened together. Its current workbench is an early host for Mere and Genet rather than a finished browser shell.

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Woodshed Stage showing an A dominant seventh sharp five chord across a fretboard with related musical material below.

Woodshed · product · active

Practice material that knows how it relates.

Woodshed stages scales, chords, arpeggios, progressions, exercises, and sets through a typed musical graph. Related material remains visible while the musician chooses what to hear, draw, or practice next.

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Isocosm: VTT displaying a painted isometric battlemap with terrain, four tokens, editing tools, and turn order.

Isocosm · product · prototype

One simulated world, played three ways.

Isocosm is a simulator, a configurable world, history and entity generator that runs whether or not anyone is playing, and three games over it: Isocosm: VTT, a pixel-art battlemap with campaign records, turn order, adjudication and peer-to-peer play; Isocosm: Mesocosm, an ecological roguelike of lineages; and Isocosm: Eponym, a second-person action RPG. The battlemap shown is one projection of the shared world.

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working principle

Your tools should explain themselves, preserve your data, and remain useful when somebody else's service is unavailable.