One person. One small crew of machines.
This is the page ad raters, buyers, and curious visitors asked for: who is behind these sites, and why does half of it cost nothing?
Who builds this
Kodiak Foundry LLC is a one-person studio in Florida run by Grizzly. By day he's a software engineer. The rest of the hours go into the tools, the art, the game, and the lab you see linked around this site.
He doesn't run it alone. Under his roof runs a small fleet of self-hosted AI agents — a writer, a coder, a researcher, an ops lead — each with a job, each kept honest by the others. Copy gets drafted, argued over, and fact-checked before it reaches you. Code gets written, tested, and reviewed. Nothing ships that he hasn't looked in the eye. It's an honest way to run big ambitions on one person's schedule, and it's the whole story of this company.
Why the tools are free
Because the answers should be free. When Medicare enrollment windows, toll costs, or tag-renewal fees come up, nobody needs a $9/month subscription between them and the number. Every tool on the list exists because Grizzly or someone he knows needed it on a Tuesday night and found the web full of forms that wanted an email address before giving an answer. The fix is the same every time: open the page, get the answer, close the tab.
How it's paid for
Honestly: ads. The tool pages carry ads, and that's what keeps the price of every answer at zero. No account is required, your data isn't sold, and nothing important sits behind a paywall. If a tool ever changes, this page says so first.
Under this roof
- Free web tools & calculators — 15 live, more arriving often.
- Fantasy art — jigsaw puzzles, RPG portraits, wallpapers, on Etsy.
- Games — Last Draft, a deckbuilder in development.
- The lab — experiments and side projects at codegrizzly.dev.
If any of it helped you, tell someone. If it didn't, tell us: hello@kodiakfoundry.com.