- Are these really free?
- Three of the six are, with no account, no trial, no card, no usage limit and no ads. Two do all their work inside your browser, so serving them costs us almost nothing; Redline runs on our machines and we pay for it because it earns us more attention than an ad would. What's This Letter, Revive and EXHIBIT B are the exceptions: the reference pages and your first read, the free preview of your first photo, or checking that every source in a report exists, cost nothing; after that a letter pass is $5, a photo pack starts at $9 and a sealed receipt is $9 a report, one payment each, because every render and every signed record costs us real money.
- Do I need to sign up?
- No. There is nothing to register for and nothing to install. Every tool opens straight into a working state, and where a tool has state to keep, that state lives in the URL — copy the link and you have saved your work.
- What happens to what I put in?
- Overlap and Cost Of never send your inputs anywhere: the board and the receipt are encoded in the address bar and computed by your own browser. Redline, What's This Letter, Revive and EXHIBIT B have to work on what you upload on a server. Redline keeps your report behind its own link; What's This Letter discards the letter the moment your answer exists — it is never stored and never used for training; Revive keeps your photos for up to 30 days after purchase to make the pack and its redos, then deletes them — sooner if you ask — and never uses them for training; EXHIBIT B discards the report itself seconds after upload and seals only hashes, counts and times — never the text. Either way, treat them the way you would treat any online tool and do not paste material you are not allowed to share.
- Do you track me?
- We count page views with a cookieless, privacy-preserving analytics setup that stores no personal data and follows nobody across sites. That is the whole of it — no advertising pixels, no session replay, no profiles.
- Can I use them at work?
- Yes, including commercially. Teams use the meeting planner for standups across continents and the calculators to argue a budget. Redline is a first read of a contract and What's This Letter an explanation of an official letter — neither is legal or tax advice, so treat their output as a checklist for your lawyer rather than a substitute for one.
- Why does a studio give tools away?
- Two honest reasons. They are proving grounds: the adversarial verification in Redline and the build-time data gates in our larger platforms are the same doctrine at different scales. And they introduce the studio to people better than a portfolio page does — you can see how we build before you ever talk to us.
- Will they still be here next year?
- That is the intent. They are static or near-static by design, which is exactly why they are cheap to keep alive: there is no database to migrate, no subscription to fund, no runtime to babysit. If a tool ever does shut down, its page will say so instead of quietly disappearing.
- Can I suggest a tool?
- Please do. The best ideas so far have come from someone describing a spreadsheet they rebuild every month. Write to info@autofract.com and tell us what you keep doing by hand.