Solent Labs

Software

Projects

AngelCaptain

Portfolio tracking for angel investors, from a Google Sheet in your own Drive. In private beta.

Cable Modem Monitor

Cable modem signal monitoring for Home Assistant. Supports 40 modems and runs entirely on your network.

HTTP Archive (HAR) Capture

Removes passwords, tokens and email addresses from HAR files before you share them.

AI Launcher

Start any AI coding assistant in any project with one command.

AI Journal

A local MCP server that keeps your work journal as plain markdown, indexed for full-text search, so your AI assistant can capture, search and recall it.

How We Build

These principles guide every decision and set expectations for contributors.

AI-accelerated: We use AI as a force multiplier. It's how a small team ships what used to take a large one. It comes with rules: disclose what you used, and read every diff line by line before you commit. Acceleration without inspection is just faster mistakes.

Single source of truth: Each tool reads from a record you already own, like your modem, your spreadsheet, or your journal, and shows what it says. We don't add scores, grades, or inferred health. Adding interpretation is a design decision, and it starts with a discussion, not a pull request.

Root cause: Fix the system, not the symptom. When something breaks, trace it back. Every bug is a chance to improve the system.

DRY architecture: Don't Repeat Yourself. One abstraction handles dozens of modems. Contributors extend patterns instead of duplicating logic.

Why "Solent"?

Two meanings, one name.

The solent is a sailboat's inner forestay, the line that holds under pressure. Nautical heritage runs deep here.

The Solent strait, between England and the Isle of Wight, is famous for currents that confound even experienced sailors. Our tools bring transparency to systems where complexity is invisible until something breaks.