Build tools that keep the work — and the proof of it — in the hands of the person who did it.
Precision tools for creative and knowledge work. Local-first. Provenance-native. Built by a practitioner for practitioners.
Products
commonFrame
A local-first AI platform. Visual framework editor, fact-checking, provenance tracking. Every workflow is visible and forkable.
ANVIL
A mixing tool that makes you faster — and captures the richest structured AI training data in the audio industry as a byproduct.
Values
Sovereignty
The person doing the work decides. Tools default protective. The person grants whatever autonomy they choose, and the tool respects that choice without nagging or second-guessing.
Integrity
The record is honest and complete. Who did what, when, and with what — always traceable, never fabricated.
Transparency
No black boxes. Everything the tool does is inspectable. "Why did it do that?" always has an answer.
Autonomy
No lock-in. Use your own tools, run on your own hardware, own your own data. Leaving is always free.
Origin
Ironwork Studio was founded by a 20-year audio engineer who always had ideas but never had the tools to build them. AI changed that.
ANVIL is the mixing plugin he always wanted to make. commonFrame is the platform that makes that same empowerment available to everyone else — a local-first AI system where the person doing the work owns the proof and controls the tools.
Not Big Tech. Not VC-backed. Audio-engineer precision and a firsthand understanding of what it means when someone else controls your platform.