The Archilles workshop · MMXXVI

More heroes.

Small, sharp, free. Companion tools from the same workshop as Archilles — built for the same kind of scholar, against the same industry defaults.

Each tool here is a single-purpose response to a specific frustration. None of them want your data. None of them charge per seat. All of them stay close to the disk and far from the cloud.

Hero Iα
ARCHILLATOR
Translate entire books — without surrendering the text.

Translate whole books or proofread OCR output in the browser — your keys, your text, your machine. A companion for scholars whose primary sources are not in their working language.

Browser Bring your own key MIT
Hero IIβ
DICTATEUR
Push to talk. Speak. Released — transcribed, locally.

Hold a hotkey, speak, release — transcribed locally with faster-whisper. Works in every application, entirely offline. Nothing upstream.

Windows Offline MIT
Hero IIIγ
HUMANIZER
An AI-bloat de-bloater for the open web.

A browser plugin that strips the LLM-generated prose padding out of social media and journalism — leaving the actual signal underneath. Explicitly not for scientific or academic texts — just a small act of self-defense against the deluge of in-human content flooding the open web. In planning · forthcoming.

Browser plugin Social & journalism only Not for scholarship MIT (planned)