Your Pickaxe is live and doing its job. Smelter forges a second edition you can hold: the full source, the docs, the deploy steps, one ZIP, signed over to you.
the Pickaxe you already made
The Wolf · on it
A Crucible build is not an embed or a share link. It is the tool rebuilt to stand on its own, with nothing between you and the code.
The real product, not a screenshot of one. Change a line, add a feature, or hand it to someone who will.
What got built and why, plus a DEPLOY file a person can actually follow. Give it to a developer, or run it tonight.
Your laptop, a rented server, the cloud account with your name on the invoice. Once it's yours, it answers to you, not to us.
I spent a good while as Pickaxe's evangelist, and I kept hearing the same thing from people who'd just built one: I made this Pickaxe, now what do I do with it? They were proud of it. They just didn't know what came next. IntelliBotique had answered that shape of question before. SiteCrafters was work I did by hand until we taught software to do it and called it Kiosk. Smelter is that move, aimed at Pickaxe: it takes the thing you built and forges it into a real product you can own and run anywhere. That's what comes next. Josh Wolf · IntelliBotique
The hosted Pickaxe is the easy way to put your tool in front of people, and it should stay right where it is. Smelter adds a second edition: one that lives on your disk and runs wherever you point it. Nothing moves, nothing breaks.
A raw code export can hand you a folder that won't start without a rebuild. A Crucible build runs the moment you unzip it.
Answer a few plain questions, or drop in a PDF of your Pickaxe and we read what we can: the name, the prompt, the fields it asks a user for, any knowledge it leans on. A couple of minutes, start to finish.
Say what it should ship as and start the firing. The forge burns its own hosted key, not yours. The build runs in front of you, step by step, on the screen.
When the firing lands you have three honest moves. Take the ZIP in the first hour for a flat $20, sight unseen. Or let us push it live, use it for 24 hours, and buy it for $100 any time in the first week. Or just leave it in the fire: the Smelter SaaS runs it for $10 a month plus 15 percent of its revenue, net of the API costs we carry.
Own the build outright at one of two moments, or let the forge keep running it. Real prices, no fine print doing the arguing.
For the first hour after your firing finishes, take the whole build for a flat $20: full source, docs, and deploy steps in one ZIP. Sight unseen, before any live test. The bold price for the decisive.
Let the hour pass and we push your build live for you. Use it for the first 24 hours and see it work. Then, any time in the first week after go-live, buy the download for $100 and own it outright.
Prefer not to self-host? Your build keeps running on the Smelter SaaS for $10 a month plus 15 percent of the revenue it earns, net of the API costs we carry to run it for you. Available before, during, and after both windows.
Two windows, one standing door, no tricks. $20 in the first hour if you trust the forge. $100 in the first week once you have seen it run. Miss both and nothing is lost: your build stays live, hosted, earning, right where it is.
The full Crucible starts by interrogating an idea: five plain checks, then a plan you sign, then a build measured against that plan. A Smelter firing starts from a different place: a Pickaxe that is already live and working. What never changes is the paper trail. Whatever road your firing takes, the ZIP tells you exactly what happened on the way.
The same forge, the same gates on the way out: the build proves it compiles, passes its checks, and runs for real before it reaches you. Starting from a working Pickaxe loosens nothing at the exit, and a red gate is a conversation with you, never a wall.
A firing that goes straight from your Pickaxe to the fire carries no signed plan, and the build says so itself, in a file that ships inside the ZIP. If you want the interrogation and the signed plan, the full Crucible is the front door. Same fire, longer road, more paper.
The forge burns the Crucible's own hosted key. You don't bring one, you don't paste one, and nothing you type here is an API credential.
The AI features in the build you download expect an Anthropic (Claude) key in the environment where you deploy it. Yours, on your invoice, under your control. The ZIP itself ships with no key inside.
The build is a real download you own: the source, the docs, the deploy. What you do with it next is your call.
No dark patterns, no fake countdown, no fine print doing the arguing. The Wolf and the Machine do the job, say so plainly, and get out of your way.
Tell us about your Pickaxe and start the firing. Watch the build run, then take the ZIP and go.
Turn a Pickaxe you already built into a real product you own and can run anywhere. Invitation-only for now: join the waitlist, sign in when your place opens, and bring it in.
Answer a few friendly questions. A couple of minutes.
Upload a PDF of your Pickaxe and the forge pre-fills what it can.
Tip: have your Pickaxe's System Prompt handy. In Pickaxe, open your Agent, choose Edit Agent, and copy everything under System Prompt.
Five minutes from here to a build you own, or one we host for you. Bring the Pickaxe you already made. That's the whole list.
Firings run in small batches. Leave your email and the Smelter invitation lands there when your place opens. Joining here also adds you to the Crucible waitlist; a place in Smelter is its own, separate from a place in the Crucible.
Already invited, or already a member? Sign in at the forge