The public website for Openly Useful, an independent studio making thoughtful products and open-source tools.
Useful things, openly made.
This is a dependency-free static site deployed on one Vercel project with a host-aware two-domain architecture:
| Domain | Brand expression | Role |
|---|---|---|
openlyuseful.com |
Openly Useful Studio | Products, partnerships, capabilities, and experiments |
openlyuseful.org |
Openly Useful Open Source | Public projects, documentation, contribution, and the shared design system |
Both domains use the same canonical Open Monitor identity, Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and IBM Plex Mono type system, and Shell / Unix Ink / Terminal / Process foundations. The Studio page is the Ink-dominant inverse expression of that system; it does not introduce a second mark or palette.
Vercel conditionally rewrites the .com root, robots file, and sitemap to their Studio documents, then falls back to the corresponding Open Source documents for .org. The internal documents intentionally do not occupy index.html, robots.txt, or sitemap.xml, because Vercel gives the filesystem precedence over rewrites. www hosts permanently redirect to their matching apex domain.
Openly Useful has one canonical publisher record across both domains and all provider artifacts:
- Display name: Openly Useful
- Planned legal entity: Openly Useful LLC
- Legal-entity status:
formation-pending - Current operator: Founder of Openly Useful, operating as Openly Useful
- Publication authorization:
founder-owner-direct - Human-readable record:
/publisher - Published authority endpoint:
publisher/manifest.json - Anonymous support URL: OpenlyUseful.org/support
- Canonical policies: Privacy, Terms, and Security
The planned entity is not represented as formed, active, or the current operator. Openly Useful is founder-operated while formation is pending, and source, package, registry, and provider publication is directly authorized by the founder-owner. Provider authentication, namespace verification, and review remain independent requirements. RunGlance remains founder-created and personally owned, with no ownership transfer required; any later LLC role is publisher, operator, and licensee.
The public manifest is projected from the governed editable publisher source; it is the published authority endpoint, not a separately edited second source of truth. Provider-specific skills, MCP manifests, packages, and marketplace listings must derive identity, domains, contacts, policy URLs, and namespaces from that endpoint; adapters may change packaging but not publisher identity.
design-system/README.mddocuments strategy, tokens, components, patterns, accessibility, voice, and governance.design-system/tokens.cssis the canonical implementation token source.design-system/brand.cssis the only supported sizing layer for the approved outlined lockup assets.design-system/ARCHITECTURE.mddocuments boundaries, validation flow, reliability, and trade-offs.brand/README.mddocuments the Open Monitor O/U identity, Monitorfolk character language, asset rules, and approved brand-kit board.brand/manifest.jsonis the machine-readable identity and asset contract.brand/media-kit.htmlis the public download index for social, press, and template assets.brand/studio/open-graph.htmlis the additive Studio social-card source; it embeds the unchanged approved reverse lockup.brand/open-source/open-graph.htmlis the additive Open Source social-card source; it embeds the unchanged approved primary lockup.brand/social/manifest.jsonrecords exact platform dimensions, safe areas, upload mappings, and generated-file hashes.scripts/build_brand_vectors.pyreproducibly converts the licensed source fonts into the canonical outlined wordmark, tagline, and lockups.scripts/build_brand_exports.pyreproducibly assembles and rasterizes the complete social, press, document, presentation, and email export kit.brand/ou-profile-mark-v1.svgis the single institutional source for the GitHub organization avatar, browser favicon, touch icon, and installed-app icons.- The live public specimen is available at
/design-system; approved downloads are available at/brand/media-kit.html. These open-source identity resources remain canonical on.org.
Serve this directory with any static web server, for example python3 -m http.server 3000, then open /open-source.html, /studio.html, /publisher/, /support.html, /legal/privacy.html, /legal/terms.html, or /security.html directly. The public root/robots/sitemap split and .com policy redirects depend on Vercel host matching and must be verified on a deployed preview; Vercel does not evaluate has conditions in vercel dev.
Website content and code are released under the MIT License unless otherwise noted.