Free tools

Things we built, given away

We build software for clients. Sometimes we build something small for ourselves, and if it turns out to be useful we put it here for anyone to use. No account, no email, no trial.

Once

Available

Show it once. Never do it again.

You have a folder of invoices, receipts, statements or forms, and every month you open each one, copy the same few details into a spreadsheet, and file it. Once watches you do the first one, then does the rest of the folder.

How it works

  1. 1Point it at a folder of PDFs, photos or Word files.
  2. 2It shows you the first document. Drag across the bits you want, like the invoice number and the total.
  3. 3It writes down what it learned in plain sentences you can correct.
  4. 4It reads every other document, writes a spreadsheet, and if you ask, renames and files them too.
  5. 5Next month you click the saved job instead of teaching it again.
Download Once for Windows

Windows will warn you that it does not recognise the publisher, because the file is not code signed yet. Click More info, then Run anyway.

Price
Free
Runs on
Windows 10 and 11
Install
One file, no admin rights
Your files
Stay on your computer
AI cost
About 40c per 60 documents, billed to you

What it will not do

  • Windows only. There is no Mac build yet.
  • It needs a free Anthropic account and your own API key. The app walks you through getting one, and it takes about three minutes.
  • PDFs, photos and Word files. Not Excel, not email.
  • It is no good for a job you do once, because teaching it takes as long as doing it. It pays off from the second time.
  • Built and used by us. Nobody else has used it yet, so you would be early and something will annoy you. Tell us and we will fix it.

Why we give these away

Most of what Solven builds is for one client and nobody else ever sees it. These are the pieces that turned out to be useful to more than one business, so there is no reason to keep them. If one of them saves you an afternoon, that tells you more about how we work than a case study would.

If you have a job like this that no tool fits, that is the work we actually do.

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