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BurnCap
Catch the spike before the invoice
AI cost monitoring for small teams: attribute spend by feature, customer and model, forecast month-end, enforce budgets through opt-in checks — no proxy, no stored prompts.
Independent eastern software studio
Useful software,built at first light.
Eastbase is a small product studio shipping carefully made SaaS, AI-native tools, and launch-ready product foundations — eleven products so far, each designed, built, and supported in-house.
11 products · 07 liveBRG 090°
EastbaseDueKind — LiveCookd — LiveSmartTrips.app — LiveBurnCap — LivePodCut — Public previewAegisRail — Public previewOkayFlow — LiveLodestar — LiveLastRun — Public previewAccessExit — LiveAskScope — Coming soonEastbase Kits — kits.eastbase.studioBRG 090°
Current focus
01Live products, kept sharp
Supporting and refining the products already in users' hands — small releases, every support email answered by us.
02Tools for the AI era
Cost control, release guardrails, agent visibility — software for people putting AI features in front of real users.
03Foundations worth reusing
Turning the studio's own launch stack into Eastbase Kits, and writing the lessons down in the Lab as we go.
01Selected work
A deliberate slice of the shelf.
Not everything at once — the products that best show where Eastbase is pointed, each with its status as it really is.
/01Live
DueKind
Be kind, get paid.
DueKind tracks your overdue invoices and drafts thoughtful payment reminders you approve and send from your own Gmail or Outlook inbox.
Freelance / ReceivablesView
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SmartTrips.app
Travel plans that actually work.
An AI travel planner that turns rough ideas into editable, map-based day plans, stress-tests them with Reality Check, and exports them travel-ready.
Travel / Itinerary PlanningView
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Lodestar
Your front door for AI agents.
Lodestar gives a small service business an agent-readable presence so AI assistants can discover it, answer questions about it accurately, and send it leads.
Local Business / Agent DiscoveryView
02The wider shelf
Everything else on the chart.
All eleven products, grouped by who they serve — statuses shown exactly as they are.
For freelancers & small businesses
01DueKindFreelance / ReceivablesLive07OkayFlowFreelance / Client ApprovalsLive08LodestarLocal Business / Agent DiscoveryLive03Eastbase Kits
The launch stack,
packaged.
The foundations Eastbase uses to ship its own products, packaged as premium Next.js kits — going past the landing page into the surfaces a real launch needs.
- 01Landing, pricing, and legal/trust pages
- 02App shell with auth and settings surfaces
- 03Docs, launch checklists, and designed empty states
- 04AI-agent guidance baked into the codebase
Explore Eastbase Kits
Early days — the first kits are taking shape now.
04The Lab
Build notes, written as it happens.
What we learn shipping these products — decisions, costs, dead ends, and the occasional fix worth stealing. Notes, not marketing.
Jul 21, 2026We built offboarding software with zero AI. Here's why.AccessExit generates offboarding checklists with rules, not a model — not because AI is bad, but because the output is an audit artifact, and three places in the code exist purely to stop the product claiming more than it can prove.5 minJul 20, 2026"No accounts" is a design problem, not a shortcut"No login" sounds like less security work. It's more. Here's the token design, rate limiting, and audit trail behind a public client-approval link — and what we'd do differently.6 minJul 19, 2026The hardest competitor to beat is the one that's free and already installedWhen we looked at who we were really competing with for client approval, it wasn't Filestage or GoVisually — it was a free Slack message that says "yes." Here's how that changed the product.5 min
05How we build
A small base,
facing east.
Eastbase is an independent eastern software studio. No investors, no roadmap theater — a small team shipping carefully made products and answering every support email ourselves.
01
Useful before clever
Every product starts with a real, recurring problem — never a technology looking for an excuse.
02
Small, sharp, finished
We ship focused tools that do one job properly, then keep refining them long after launch day.
03
Calm by default
No growth hacks, no dark patterns, no noise. Software should lower the pulse, not raise it.
04
AI-assisted, human-finished
We build with AI agents every day — drafting, reviewing, testing. Everything that ships still passes a human eye and a human standard.
05
Launch-ready by habit
Docs, checklists, and readiness reviews before anything goes live. Those same foundations are becoming Eastbase Kits.
06
Supported by humans
Self-funded, no outside money — and when you write to any product, the team answers. No ticket theater.
Client work — open
Teams now ask us to build SaaS like this for them. We take on a few each year.
The studio behind
the software.
Product questions, support, collaboration, or a commissioned build — write to us and a human answers.
hello@eastbase.studio