Software with one more direction.

Baseract is the studio where I build the tools I could not buy. Twelve of them live here, real and running.

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BASERACT No. 1 · HYPERCUBE IN GLASS
TURNING IN TWO PLANES YOU CANNOT POINT AT
DRAG IT. IT DOES NOT MIND.

0 · A POINT

It starts with a point of light.

One person who kept thinking, surely this can work better than it does.

1 · A BEAM

Held long enough, a point becomes a beam.

I ship something most weeks, even when nobody is watching. Especially then.

2 · A SHEET

Beams cross and you get a surface.

Screens, mostly. The places where a tool meets an ordinary Tuesday morning.

3 · A CHAMBER

Close the surfaces and light fills a room.

Real software with real weight. Databases, logins, backups, the unglamorous load bearing walls.

4 · BASERACT

Fold the room once more and you get Baseract.

A shape with more sides than sense. You are standing in it now.

The spectrum

Pass one light through a prism and the beams keep coming. Twelve so far, every one of them made here, most of them used daily.

01 OF 12 BY INVITATION

Kestrel

the markets, watched

Kestrel reads the markets so my mornings stay calm. Charts, signals and a plan for the day, ready before the coffee cools. It is private, and a visit is by invitation.

02 OF 12 LIVE

Dawnline

the inbox, quieted

Dawnline reads an overflowing inbox and hands back one quiet page. The email feels lighter afterwards. So do I.

03 OF 12 GROWING

Lodestone

the training, kept honest

Lodestone remembers every lift and every match, so I can argue with my excuses. Progress charts, a muscle map, a sports ledger and a trainer that plans the next block.

04 OF 12 GROWING

Dosekeep

the cabinet, minded

Dosekeep minds the family medicine cabinet: what we have, what ran out, what expires next, shared by everyone at home. Not medical advice, just fewer surprises.

05 OF 12 IN THE WORKSHOP

Sotto Console

the voice, kept home

Sotto Console types what I say into any app and reads selected text back to me, in voices that run on this machine. Not one word of it ever leaves.

06 OF 12 IN THE WORKSHOP

Sotto Neural Bridge

the conversation, in my own voice

Sotto Neural Bridge is the half of Sotto I talk to. I speak or type, Claude answers, and the reply comes back in my own cloned voice while it is still being written.

07 OF 12 LIVE

Vantry

the work, watched live

Vantry is the command center over everything I build. Every project, task and decision across the workspace mirrors onto one live board, behind my own sign in.

08 OF 12 LIVE

BAP

the numbers, gathered

The analytics room for everything here. Privacy first: no cookies, nothing personal, and every Baseract site and app reports into one dashboard.

09 OF 12 LIVE

Sightvane

search, seen clearly

An SEO and AI visibility instrument. Crawls, keywords and rankings on one channel; what the answer engines say about a brand on the other.

10 OF 12 LIVE

TrueFrame

phones, on the bench

TrueFrame holds my web apps up to real iPhone and Android frames, audits what breaks, then dresses the result for the app stores at their exact sizes.

11 OF 12 LIVE

BHA

architecture, framed

The website I built for my brother’s architecture practice, Bilal Hoss Architects: Swiss minimal, editorial and calm, carrying thirteen years of built work across three regions.

12 OF 12 IN THE WORKSHOP

Pixalton

a world, in pixels

Pixalton is the game I am making: a creature RPG drawn in pixels, two titles set in one original world. Very much in the workshop.

THE VISIT

Come by anytime.

Baseract is what I make after hours. If one of these tools would make your week lighter, or you are busy building your own little machines, write to me. I answer.

BEAM 05 OF 12 · IN THE WORKSHOP

Sotto Console

the voice, kept home

Sotto is Italian for a voice kept low. Hold a key and Sotto Console types what I dictate into whatever app I am in; select some text and it reads it aloud, in a voice I picked or in my own, cloned from about twenty five seconds of me talking. The microphone listens only while the key is held, and speech never touches the network. It is still on the workbench, and I like it there.

SPEAKS
dictation in, read aloud out
VOICES
local engines, plus my own, cloned
SENDS
nothing, anywhere, ever
Not open to visitors yetsee it running

The plates

03 views of Sotto Console, as it runs.

  1. Sotto Console window showing a status strip (running, large v3 turbo engine, GPU compute, 76 millisecond last transcription) above dictation and read aloud settings, and Neural Bridge and linked devices panels.
    PLATE 01Dictation and read aloud, side by side.
  2. Sotto Console panels for Sotto Neural Bridge name, response model, personality, entrance and hotkey, an empty linked devices card, and privacy toggles.
    PLATE 02Where I set how the Bridge sounds, and what stays private.
  3. Sotto Console privacy toggles, conversation log retention, and the clone your own voice panel with a saved voice recording and Save changes and Open log buttons.
    PLATE 03My own voice, cloned and kept on this machine.