You have something to make real.
Just you and the work.
Your work belongs to you. We build everything to keep it that way.
The best software disappears. You stop noticing the instrument and only hear the music. That's the standard — tools so aligned with what you're trying to do that you forget they're there. Every product we ship is built on that principle: encrypted, offline-capable, and yours to leave whenever you want.
The studio
Our software ships under Off-Leash
Off-Leash is our software studio — the name on the shelf and the promise behind it. Goose, the website builder you set up once: it keeps your site current and discoverable by AI, without surveilling your visitors. Gloss, the markdown reader that opens to read and edits when you ask. Different tools, same architecture: private by design, offline-capable, yours.
When a product says "by Off-Leash," this is the company signing it. Off-Leash is a DBA of Michael Craig Group, LLC — same builder, same belief: your data belongs to you.
From the build log
What we're learning, breaking, and shipping.
Markdown Eats the Office
Microsoft shipped a markdown adapter for Word and MarkItDown crossed 91,000 GitHub stars. Markdown is no longer a developer niche — it's the lingua franca between humans, AI, and every document on your disk. Gloss is built for that world: read, edit, and search your markdown as a living knowledgebase.
The Shape-Shifter Economy
AI doesn't end the day job — health insurance makes sure of that. But it does quietly reshape it. The next decade belongs to individuals and tiny teams who shape, review, and accept work by day and run their own AI-built product on the side. The tooling I'm building is for them.
GEO Is Already Wrong
Generative Engine Optimization is making the same mistake SEO made — gaming the retrieval layer instead of earning the citation. What actually gets AI to mention your tool is simpler and harder.
Come see how we build.
The code is open. The architecture is documented. And there's a story behind all of it.