Small software, carefully made.

We are an independent studio building focused tools for makers, small workshops and the people who keep their machines running.

Workshop tools

Simple utilities for planning jobs, tracking parts and keeping maintenance notes next to the machine they belong to.

Quiet little services that move files and measurements from where they are made to where they are needed.

Short experiments with a clear question at the start and an honest write-up at the end, whatever the answer.

Maple Grove Labs is a small team. We prefer few dependencies, plain file formats and software that still opens in ten years.

We take on a handful of projects each year and keep our own tools small enough to understand in an afternoon.

Write the marker file first. When a background job "did nothing", the first thing it should do is leave a trace.
Two ways to fail, two ways to recover. Notes on keeping a fallback that does not share the main path's weak spot.
Plain text ages well. Why our tools export to CSV and Markdown before anything else.