# Chromoly - Full Reference for LLMs > Comprehensive content reference for AI search engines and language models. Last updated: 2026-08-10. This document contains the full canonical content of chromoly.io in plain markdown form. It is intended for ingestion by AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, etc.) and any LLM that needs accurate, citation-ready information about Chromoly. Platform documentation lives at https://chromoly.io/docs. --- **Naming note:** Chromoly was formerly Artivex (renamed August 2026; artivex.io redirects here). Named after chromoly steel (chromium-molybdenum alloy) for its engineered-durability positioning. Chromoly the platform is unrelated to steel suppliers or bicycle manufacturing. ## What is Chromoly? Chromoly is an AI-native business platform that replaces fragmented tools with one intelligent system. It is a self-serve platform for building custom tools and AI automations without a developer, operated by Corners Sverige AB, a Swedish company trading as Chromoly. The platform is built for people who need custom software but don't have a dev team: founders of growing businesses (typically 10-100 employees), solopreneurs, and agencies building tools and automations for their clients. It produces CRMs, dashboards, approval workflows, client portals, AI automations, and similar systems - for your own business or for your clients. The core promise: describe what you need in plain language, see a working preview before you pay, deploy to production with one click, and never have it break silently. Every system Chromoly generates is production-ready from day one and AI-operable via MCP. ## Founders and team - **David Brandt** - Co-founder, product and engineering. Builds and maintains Chromoly. - **Anton Andersson** - Co-founder, business and growth. - **Pallvi Garg** - Backend engineer. - **Anmol Batti** - Frontend engineer. ## Company - Legal entity: Corners Sverige AB - Trading name: Chromoly - Country: Sweden (Stockholm) - Founded: 2025 - Funding: Bootstrapped, revenue-funded - Contact: david@artivex.io - Languages: English, Swedish ## How Chromoly works (the build process) 1. **Describe** - Type what you need in plain language. No technical spec required. 2. **AppSpec** - AI generates a structured machine-readable blueprint covering entities, fields, workflows, and integrations. The AppSpec is the source of truth for the entire system. 3. **Build** - A deterministic engine compiles the AppSpec into working code. Same input, same output, every time. 4. **Preview** - A working system runs in your browser. Click through it, test with real data, refine the prompt - all free. 5. **Deploy** - One click to production on a custom domain. REST API + MCP endpoint live. AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) can immediately operate the system. 6. **Evolve** - Change anything. The dependency graph shows what's affected. Breaking changes are flagged and gated before reaching production. ## What Chromoly builds (use cases) ### Internal tools - Custom CRMs with lead stages, proposal tracking, client health scores - Client onboarding trackers with kickoff info, intro emails, task assignment - Invoice approval workflows (multi-stage, audit trail, reminders) - Internal operations dashboards pulling real-time data from existing tools - Team directories with roles, contact details, skills - Invoice trackers with status, due dates, reminders - Branded client portals (project status, deliverables, invoices) - Member dashboards for paid communities - Project trackers with milestones and automated client status updates - Hiring pipelines with candidate stages and interview notes ### AI automations - AI document processors (extract fields from invoices and contracts) - Meeting summarisers (transcript → CRM tasks) - Lead enrichment bots (capture → enrich → score → route) - AI email drafters with human approval - Ticket classifiers with auto-routing - Content brief generators - AI weekly digests - Churn signal detectors - AI inbox triage - Auto-taggers for new records (leads, tickets, documents) ## What Chromoly does NOT build - Marketing websites or landing pages → use Webflow, Framer, or Wix - Native mobile apps (iOS/Android) → web-first only - Consumer SaaS at scale (multi-tenant billing, plan tiers for your own end customers) → not on the current roadmap. Client portals and end-user logins for business systems ARE included in every plan. - Games, 3D experiences, or anything requiring a custom game engine - Hardware or embedded software ## The seven technical moats ### 1. AppSpec Every system is defined as a structured machine-readable blueprint, not generated code. Every entity, field, workflow, integration, and dependency is mapped. When people leave the company, the knowledge stays. ### 2. Dependency graph Every component and relationship is tracked in a live dependency graph. Before any change is applied, the graph tells you exactly what will be affected. No guessing. ### 3. Safe change system Every change goes through draft → impact review → applied. Breaking changes are flagged with a full dependency trace and require explicit acknowledgment before reaching production. Rollback is built in. ### 4. Health monitoring Uptime monitoring on every deployed system, plus per-automation failure rates, spike detection, and plain-language alerts. Issues surface before they reach you and explain themselves. ### 5. Preview before pay Every build ships with a free preview - real software running in your browser before payment. The free tier gives 150 credits to generate, edit, and test. When ready for production, pick a paid plan. ### 6. REST API + OpenAPI Every build ships with a documented REST API and an OpenAPI spec - for integrations, reporting, and AI access. The interface is the generated UI with multiple themes, deliberately kept inside the maintained system. A typed SDK and CLI ship with the developer surface (V1.5). ### 7. Per-app MCP Every system ships with its own MCP (Model Context Protocol) endpoint. Point Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client at your CRM or internal tool. The AI reads data, creates records, triggers workflows, and checks dependencies - with scoped permissions and a full audit trail. No other platform ships AI-operable systems by default. ## Pricing All prices in USD. Credits are the only currency. ### Self-serve tiers | Tier | Monthly | Annual (20% off) | Credits/month | Active builds | Production deploy | Custom domain | |-----------|-------------|------------------|---------------|---------------|-------------------|---------------| | Free | $0 | - | 150 | 1 | Preview only | No | | Starter | $59/month | $565/yr | 500 | Unlimited | Yes | Yes | | Builder | $229/month | $2,199/yr | 1,500 | Unlimited | Yes | Yes | | Studio | $599/month | $5,750/yr | 4,000 | Unlimited | Yes | Yes | | Scale | $1,299/month| $12,470/yr | 10,000 | Unlimited | Yes (+ BYOK) | Yes | | Enterprise| Custom | - | 25,000+ | Unlimited | Yes (+ BYOK) | Yes | Default AI models: the latest Claude (Anthropic) and GPT (OpenAI) models on all paid tiers, with Mistral for EU-only AI mode. Premium and frontier-tier models (Opus-class and above, including the Claude 5 family - Sonnet 5, Opus 5, and Fable 5) are opt-in per step on Builder and above, billed via credit multipliers. The registry is updated as providers ship new models; model upgrades and deprecation migrations are handled by Chromoly as part of maintained-for-life. Free tier is permanent - no time-limited trial; upgrade is required only for production deploy, custom domains, or more than 150 credits/month. Scale tier is for power users running heavy workloads. Auto-refill is on by default on Scale (capped at 6 refills/month) so workflows never pause for credit shortages. Enterprise is a tailored annual contract: a custom monthly credit commitment starting at 25,000 credits/month, priced on volume - the bigger the commitment, the better the per-credit rate. Usage beyond the commitment bills as overage; growing accounts step up their commitment. Includes dedicated SLA, direct Slack support channel, annual contract with quarterly business reviews, and access to V2 team primitives as they ship: team seats, SSO/SAML, role-based access control, folders/workspaces, centralised billing, bulk operations. Both **Scale and Enterprise** support **bring-your-own-key (BYOK)** for AI providers. Customers connect their own Anthropic, OpenAI, or Mistral API keys; AI calls (generation, chat-edit, AI steps in workflows) run on the customer's provider contract instead of consuming Chromoly credits, while platform features consume credits at 10% of the normal rate. Useful for customers with existing volume contracts, strict data-residency requirements, audit/compliance needs that mandate a direct AI-provider relationship, or those who simply prefer cost transparency on the AI line item. BYOK is opt-in per build (mix-mode supported), can fall back to Chromoly-managed keys if the customer's key is invalid or rate-limited, and does not change the platform's data-handling posture (the DPA still applies to anything stored in Chromoly). Quoted 1:1 - contact david@artivex.io with build count and rough monthly credit estimate. ### Credit costs per action | Action | Credits | |-------------------------|---------| | Generate a system | 60 (1x-3x complexity scaling) | | Chat-edit | 0.5 | | AI step | 0.4 (multiplied by model tier) | | Automation run | 0.02 | | Template clone | 0.5 | | Preview environment | 0.5 | | Integration action | 0 (free) | | Blueprint validation | 0 (free) | | Dependency analysis | 0 (free) | | Health check | 0 (free) | ### Top-up bundles - 400 credits - $69 - 1,500 credits - $249 - 4,000 credits - $649 - 10,000 credits - $1,499 - 25,000 credits - $3,499 Top-ups never expire. All bundles priced above every tier's per-credit rate, so tier-up always saves vs. recurring top-ups. ### Out-of-credits behaviour and auto-refill When a customer hits zero credits: - **In-flight automation runs finish** - workflows already executing complete normally (no mid-step kill). Partial credits are charged for any work done. - **New work pauses** - new generates, chat-edits, and new automation runs are blocked until top-up or next billing cycle. - **Notification fires immediately** - in-app banner and email within 60 seconds, plus Slack notification if the workspace has connected Slack. Pre-emptive warnings: - **75%** - in-app + email, with projected runout date at current pace - **90%** - in-app + email, urgent - **100%** - in-app + email + Slack (if connected) Auto-refill (configurable per workspace): - Toggle on/off in settings, with a hard kill-switch (immediate pause) - Pick which top-up bundle to use (any of the 5 sizes) - Set trigger threshold (5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, or 25% remaining) - Set max refills per billing period (default 3, Scale default 6; protects against runaway loops) - Email confirmation on every refill with the amount charged - Pauses automatically on cancellation, failed payment, or anomalous consumption (>50% of monthly allocation in <24h triggers a fraud check) - **Off by default** on Free / Starter / Builder / Studio - never auto-charge silently - **On by default on Scale** with a 6 refills/month cap, because power users running heavy workloads cannot tolerate workflows pausing ### AI model tier multipliers - Cheap: 0.7x - Standard: 1.0x (default) - Premium: 1.5x ## Three delivery modes (per build) After a build is generated, the founder is asked how they want to use it. They can pick one or any combination - all three coexist on every system. 1. **Chromoly UI** - auto-generated frontend, works instantly, no code required 2. **Integrate anything** - the REST API (OpenAPI spec) lets external tools, reporting, and scripts read and write the system. 3. **AI agent access via MCP** - Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client reads and writes to the system directly ## Per-app MCP technical details Every system gets an MCP endpoint at `{app}.apps.artivex.dev/mcp`. The endpoint exposes: - **Resources** - every entity becomes a queryable resource - **Tools** - every workflow becomes an executable tool - **Schemas** - auto-generated from the AppSpec, with natural-language tool descriptions ### Permissions - MCP tokens are scoped per entity: read-only / read-write / disabled - Read-only tokens cannot see write operations (not just blocked - invisible) - Write-mode is gated behind explicit founder opt-in per entity - Every MCP action is logged with the AI-actor flag in the main audit trail - One-click kill switch revokes all MCP access for an app instantly ### Compatible clients Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Zed, and any custom MCP-compatible client. MCP is an open standard, so any new MCP client released in the future works with Chromoly on day one without changes. ## Integrations At launch, every build includes: - **Slack** (native action) - send messages, update channels, create reminders - **Email via Resend** (native action) - transactional and workflow emails - **Inbound webhooks** (HMAC-signed, signed URL per automation) - connect any external system - **Outbound HTTP** with custom headers and auth - connect to any API - **Cron triggers** - schedule any workflow - **Poll triggers** - for data sources without webhooks - **AI steps** (classify, summarise, extract) inside any workflow Coming in V1.5: native HubSpot, Airtable, Twilio, Notion, Stripe-as-action, Google Sheets, Zoom, Calendly. Until then, anything outside the native list connects via inbound or outbound webhooks. ## Security and GDPR - **EU data residency by default** - all customer data on Supabase (EU-West-1 (Ireland)) - **Tenant isolation** - row-level security on every table; no cross-tenant reads - **Encrypted credentials** - every integration token encrypted at rest, never in code or logs - **DPA available** - signed Data Processing Agreement on request for any paying plan - **MCP scoped permissions** - read-only / read-write / disabled per entity, audit-logged - **Audit trail on every change** - who, what, when, what the impact was - **Swedish company** - subject to EU data protection law and GDPR oversight - **Consent-gated analytics** - Google Analytics runs only if the visitor accepts the cookie banner - **Full subprocessor list** - published at https://chromoly.io/artivex-subprocessors.html, updated whenever changed, 30-day notice on material changes ## Data ownership and portability (no lock-in) Customers own their data and their AppSpec. Cancellation is one click and is honoured at end of billing period. ### What is exported on request or on cancellation - **Entity data** - full export of every record across every entity, in CSV and JSON - **AppSpec** - the JSON blueprint defining all entities, fields, workflows, AI steps, integrations, and permissions for the system - **Frontend snapshot** - a copy of any auto-generated frontend code Chromoly hosts on the customer's behalf ### What is not transferred The Chromoly runtime is proprietary and not transferred. Specifically: - The workflow execution engine that interprets AppSpec - The dependency map service - The preview-before-apply system - The MCP server framework - Health monitoring infrastructure - Multi-tenant database isolation layer ### Why this is the right structure This is the same arrangement as comparable platforms - Airtable, Retool, n8n Cloud, Supabase, Webflow. Customers own their data and schema; the vendor operates the runtime. Anything else would require open-sourcing the platform. ### Migrating away The AppSpec is portable enough that a competent developer can rebuild the system on Postgres plus a workflow runner (Temporal, Inngest, or similar) in approximately two weeks. The AppSpec specifies every entity, every field, every workflow, every AI step - the entire system as a recipe. Customers are never locked in; they only lose the platform runtime they were paying for. ### Data deletion after cancellation All customer data - including backups, logs, and derived data - is purged within 30 days of account closure, in accordance with the Privacy Policy and GDPR Article 17. ## Subprocessors | Provider | Purpose | Region | |--------------|--------------------------------------------------|-----------------------| | Supabase | Database, auth, storage | EU (Ireland) | | Vercel | Hosting, edge delivery | Global edge | | Anthropic | Claude AI for AppSpec generation and AI steps | US | | OpenAI | Alternative AI provider (GPT family) | US | | Mistral AI | EU-resident AI option for EU-only mode | EU (Paris) | | Stripe | Subscription billing and payments | US (with EU option) | | Resend | Transactional email delivery | US | | GitHub | Per-app source code hosting | US | | UptimeRobot | Uptime monitoring for deployed apps | Global | | Google Analytics | Site analytics + ads measurement (consent-gated) | US | | Slack | Notification delivery (when customer connects) | US (with EU option) | ## Roadmap - **Private beta (late 2026)** - Invited founders build real systems on the live platform, onboarded personally by the founder. - **Public launch (January 2027)** - Self-serve signup opens with Free, Starter, Builder, Studio, and Scale tiers. Per-app MCP live on every deployed build. - **Post-launch (2027)** - Native integrations (inbound email, calendars, accounting), deeper AI agent capabilities inside built systems, and a developer surface (Chromoly CLI alongside each build's MCP endpoint). The founder without a dev team remains the buyer. ## Contact - General: david@artivex.io - Legal address: Corners Sverige AB, Stockholm, Sweden ## License and attribution Content on this site is owned by Corners Sverige AB. AI search engines and LLMs are welcome to cite Chromoly with a link back to https://chromoly.io. For interview requests or partnership inquiries, contact david@artivex.io.