We needed a writing app. Then we needed a faster way to build it. So we wrote a framework, and then a platform on top of it that turns a description of an application into a working one — database, admin, page composer, theme and hosting included.
Everything below was built with it. Our own publishing imprint writes with one of these products; another runs its own marketing. We use what we sell, which is how we find out what is actually wrong with it.
The MIT-licensed PHP framework everything here runs on. Modular, no build step and no heavyweight toolchain — the parts you need and nothing you don't.
Describe the application you need and the platform builds it — schema, admin, page composer, theme editor, hosting and a custom domain. Fifty-eight optional modules cover the things most applications end up needing anyway.
claudephpbuilder.com →
In provisional beta — usable today, and we're taking early users.
Marketing planning and execution for people who can build things and dread marketing them. Define the market, find the channels that actually fit, and get a plan and a calendar you can follow. Built with ClaudePHPBuilder.
One writing studio for the whole life of a book — plan it, write it, revise it with an AI that only suggests, typeset print and ebook editions, then publish, promote and track it. Built with ClaudePHPBuilder, and used by our own publishing imprint on a real book.
storiesden.com →
Free plan, no card. Author plan $18 a month.
Now live
Most authors stitch a book together from six tools that never talk to each other — a drafting app, a spreadsheet of characters, a formatter for one kind of computer, a launch checklist spread across browser tabs. StoriesDen keeps every stage on the same book.
Contract work we take on →
Integrations, legacy maintenance, internal tools, client portals, booking systems
and data-driven applications — deployed to your own hosting.
We make sure our clients are using technology to their advantage rather than working around it — whether that means building out infrastructure, streamlining an existing application, or working out where AI genuinely helps and where it does not.
We specialise in new ideas and technical innovation, using experience across many industries to find solutions and synergies that are easy to miss from inside one of them.
With decades of application development and support behind us, we can help you take an existing product further — or decide honestly whether it is worth taking further at all.
Rock Court Media is our publishing imprint — books and audio. It is also StoriesDen's first real user: the same company that builds the writing software uses it to publish its own fiction. If a feature doesn't survive a real manuscript, it doesn't survive.
