Licrat designs, builds, and runs its own focused products — sharp APIs and tools, engineered by senior hands, with no fluff. Our first is Winnow.
Most tools are bloated because incentives reward features, not focus. We don't sell seats or chase roadmaps — we build small, sharp products and operate them ourselves. That changes what we ship: only what earns its place.
Every Licrat product is deterministic where it matters, private by default, and fast enough to forget. No AI black boxes where plain rules will do, no data hoarding, no dashboards you'll never open.
We pick narrow problems with a clear right answer and solve them properly — the kind of infrastructure you wire in once and stop thinking about.
Where a problem has a correct answer, we use explicit rules — not a model that guesses. Same input, same output, every time, explainable down to the line.
One endpoint, clear contracts, honest errors. Drop it into your pipeline in an afternoon, not a quarter.
We run what we build in production. The people who wrote it keep it fast, correct, and online.
A data-quality and fraud API for survey responses. One call scores each response for bots, speeders, straight-liners, duplicates, gibberish and uniform timing — with deterministic rules, in milliseconds. No AI, no per-call model cost, no raw PII.
Meet Winnow →We're building the next focused tool in the same spirit. Want early access, or to suggest one? Get in touch.
One job, done exceptionally. If it doesn't earn its place, it doesn't ship.
Plain rules before models — predictable, explainable, debuggable.
We keep only what we must. Your data is never our product.
Less to learn, less to break, less to pay for.
We build and operate our own products. No hand-offs, no finger-pointing.
Milliseconds, not seconds. Speed is a feature, not an upgrade.
Every product is designed, built, and operated by engineers with 15+ years shipping production software. No hand-offs, no juniors learning on your problem — the people who write the code own the outcome. We'd rather ship one tool we're proud of than ten we're not.
We're an independent software studio. We build and operate our own focused products — currently Winnow, a data-quality and fraud API for surveys — with more in the works.
No — we build our own products rather than take client projects. The fastest way to work with us today is to use Winnow. For anything else, get in touch and we'll be honest about whether we can help.
Only when it's the right tool. Where a problem has a correct answer, we use deterministic rules instead — they're faster, cheaper, explainable, and they don't hallucinate.
Private by default. We keep only what a product needs to work, never sell data, and prefer hashed or minimized inputs wherever possible. Your data isn't our business model.
An HTTP API that scores a single survey response for quality and fraud — speeders, straight-lining, duplicates, gibberish and more — and returns a score, a recommendation, and the exact flags. See winnow.licrat.com.
Email hello@licrat.com. We read everything and reply to what we can help with.
Our first product is live and ready to use. Everything the studio ships is held to the same standard.