Resonate Works
Careful software.
Tools that show their working, and stop where the evidence stops.
What we make
Small tools, built to be checked.
Resonate Works is a two-person studio. We build software for people who need to trust what it tells them — where every claim can be traced back to a source, and where the honest answer to a hard question is sometimes that the source does not say.
That constraint is the whole design. It rules out a lot of features, and it is the reason the ones that ship can be relied on.
How we work
Four things we hold to.
These are constraints, not aspirations. Each one has cost us a feature we wanted.
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Show the source
Nothing is asserted without the material it came from, in a form you can open and read yourself. If we cannot show you where something came from, we do not say it.
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Say when you don’t know
A tool that answers everything is a tool that invents. Ours are built to say plainly when they have not found an answer, rather than filling the gap with something that reads well.
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Take nothing you don’t need
No third-party analytics, no advertising trackers, no selling of anyone’s data. What people do inside our software is theirs, and they can take it with them or delete it outright.
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Know where the line is
Software can gather, arrange and cite. It cannot tell anyone what to believe or what to do, and we build ours to step back at that line rather than across it.
Contact
Get in touch.
We read everything that arrives, and we answer the ones we can be useful to.