A small lab in California. We make tools for people who play in bands and write DSP code and argue about gain staging — and increasingly, tools for anyone who cares about owning their own process.
Everything runs local. Everything ships open. We have zero interest in your data.
If it replaces the person, we're not interested. We build instruments.
| Project | What it does | |
|---|---|---|
| 🎵 | audiotree | React primitives for building audio apps — your component tree becomes your signal flow |
| 📖 | glorybook | Real-time setlist sync for bands |
| 🌳 | grove | 3D spatial audio mixer visualization — see sound in space |
| 💖 | pedalboard | Open-source Claude Code skills for independent musicians |
| 🎛️ | toneword | Semantic EQ — warmth, bite, air instead of frequency curves |
| 📻 | village-radio | Release Radar, but for your people |
| Project | What it does | |
|---|---|---|
| 👻 | caspar | The friendly Ghost CLI |
| 🔗 | chaparral | Shared Claude Code skills and config across sibling repos |
| 🐦⬛ | magpie | Opinionated agentic project management for solo devs and small teams |
| 🔥 | rxburn | macOS menubar app — see how much value you're getting from your Claude subscription |
| 📺 | tv-guide | Fuzzy finders for the tools we use |
| 🌿 | understory | Open-source skills that bridge AI chat and working code |
| Project | What it does | |
|---|---|---|
| 🏷️ | brand | Our visual identity and design tokens |
| frameworks | Mental models for thinking clearly about hard problems | |
| 🌿 | manzanita-research.github.io | Instruments for the people who make music — an independent AI lab, with love from California |
| 🎨 | SKIN | Semantic Keys for Interface Notation |
| themes | Custom themes for the tools we use, built from the Manzanita Research color palette | |
| 🧭 | wayfarer | Generative UI frameworks, explored — same components, four different roads |
Website: manzanita-research.github.io
With love from California
