What we're building: the Stacklumen product suite
What we're building: the Stacklumen product suite
For centuries, Ancient Egypt's mysteries remained hidden in hieroglyphs—a lost language—until the Rosetta Stone unlocked its secrets, revolutionizing history.
In 1799, during Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign, French soldiers discovered a large black basalt slab in Rosetta (now Rashid). Standing 44 inches tall and weighing 1,600 pounds, this artifact later became the key to decoding hieroglyphs.
Deciphering the Code: For decades, scholars worked to crack the linguistic puzzle. It was Jean-François Champollion, a French linguist, who made the breakthrough in 1822.
By comparing the Greek text to the hieroglyphs, he identified phonetic symbols corresponding to royal names like Ptolemy and Cleopatra.
From studio to software
Stacklumen started the way a lot of good software companies do: as a studio that builds websites and applications for other people. Along the way, we kept building tools to make our own work faster and more reliable — and those tools kept turning out to be useful beyond us. The product suite is what happens when you stop treating internal tooling as a byproduct and start treating it as the point.
Here's how the pieces fit together today, and where each one is headed.
Toolumen — live
The front door. Toolumen is a growing suite of free, no-login web tools for people who ship: an embed minifier, an SEO audit, an Open Graph preview, image and HEIC conversion, a contrast checker, and more on the way. Everything runs in the browser, nothing hides behind a sign-up. It's the most public expression of how we think — small, sharp tools that delete friction. Find it at toolumen.com.
Baselumen — beta
Baselumen is a component library application: production-ready Webflow embeds and React components, copy-paste ready, accessibility-checked, and dark-mode aware. It's the same library of patterns we use on client work, documented and made dependable so other builders can move as fast as we do. It's in beta now with free early access.
Hublumen — coming soon
Hublumen is the biggest piece, and the one we're heads-down on: a client portal for agencies and the teams they serve. Project status, async approvals, file delivery, and billing in one workspace — built for the way modern studios actually work, instead of the way project-management software assumes they do. It's coming soon.
One through-line
Three products, one idea: take the things that make good work faster — the tools, the components, the workflows — and put them in everyone's hands. We build them for ourselves first, harden them on real projects, then open them up.
We'll keep documenting the journey here as each piece ships. If you want to follow along or get early access, start wherever you are in the stack — grab a tool at toolumen.com, try Baselumen, or watch this space for Hublumen.
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“Browsing ancient artifacts and uncovering the historical context of the stories on each relic was a timeless experience”
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