Commonplace

Keep every version of your work safe — and easy to share.

Commonplace makes tools for everyday creatives. Under each one is a memory that never forgets a save, lets you return to any moment, and makes sharing effortless — without ever showing you the word commit.

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Creative work forgets

Every creative works in files, and files have no memory. You save over yesterday. A crash takes the last hour. The version you loved is lost under a dozen saves named final, final2, final_real. So we invent coping rituals — duplicate the folder, append the date, email a zip to ourselves — and those rituals fail exactly when the work matters most.

Engineers solved this thirty years ago with version control. But it was built by engineers for engineers, and it shows: commit, branch, merge, rebase, conflict. Ask a songwriter, an illustrator, or a model-maker to “resolve a merge conflict” and you have lost them. The tools that could save their work are the tools they will never use.

The bet: make versioning transparent

The answer isn't a better version-control app. It's to push version control beneath the surface of the tools people already think in — so the machinery disappears and only the good parts remain.

  • Never lose your work

    Every save, kept automatically. No duplicate folders, no mix_final_v3_real.

  • Always go back

    Yesterday's version is one tap away. Try the wild idea — the safe version is always there.

  • Share without the hassle

    Send a version for feedback, hand a project off cleanly, get comments back — without anyone touching a “repository.”

  • Your files stay yours

    Works offline. You own your work. The machinery stays invisible.

One foundation, many tools

Build the transparent foundation once and the economics change. Each new tool inherits perfect memory, safe collaboration, identity, and storage for nearly free — and every tool contributes to one shared creative history.

A musician scoring a film in Auxin who builds its title sequence in Modeler, sketches the staging in Drafter, and keeps the treatment in Idea Garden is one person, one account, one timeline — not four logins and four silos.

AuxinMusic
Modeler3D
Idea GardenNotes
SimulatorSimulation
Drafter2D drafting
Transparent VCS invisible history · safe collaboration · your files, yours
one identity · one account · one timeline

The family

Each tool is best-in-class at one everyday craft and stands on the same foundation. Status below is honest — some tools ship today; some are still coming onto the platform.

Auxin

Music

Never lose a session, collaborate on a track without overwriting each other, and let the artist press play and leave feedback.

Shipping macOS, CLI & web — the mature reference tool, fully on Transparent VCS.

Modeler

3D

Model in 3D in the browser, zero install, with full history and one-click sharing for review.

Real app For the SketchUp crowd. The next tool to come fully onto the platform.

Idea Garden

Notes

Capture and connect ideas, and keep a personal history of how your thinking evolved.

Real app Markdown, wiki-links, a graph view. The gentlest on-ramp to “go back in time.”

Simulator

Simulation

Build and run multi-agent and artificial-life simulations in the browser, and version the model and its runs.

Experimental For creative coders, educators, and generative artists.

Drafter

2D drafting

Precise 2D drawing, drafting, and layout — the flat-work companion to Modeler's 3D.

Planned Earliest stage. Listed for the shape of the family.

More tools join the family as they earn a craft and a place on the platform — one everyday craft, versioning hidden entirely behind it.

Why now, and why us

Three currents meet. Creatives are tired of renting access to their own work inside someone else's cloud. Creative files — multi-gigabyte sessions, models, raw libraries — have outgrown generic sync and bloat Git, so format-aware versioning is now a real, defensible edge. And the everyday creative is underserved: the pro tier has Perforce, the consumer tier has folders and luck, and the enormous middle has nothing built for it.

We have done this exact move before. The hardest thing here is making powerful, engineer-shaped capability feel ordinary and safe for people who aren't engineers — which is precisely what SketchUp did for 3D modeling: it took CAD, a discipline reserved for specialists, and made it something anyone could pick up in an afternoon. Commonplace is that same democratization, aimed at versioning — “3D for everyone,” applied to creative memory.

Win the everyday creative one tool at a time —

and let a transparent, shared memory quietly keep their whole creative history in one place.