Ran Craycraft

Making

Things I’ve built, cooked, written, and wired together, at home and for my team, with the story of how each one came to be.

Illustration of Qualifier in use Tools for my team Qualifier, moving a sales lead forward with one emoji A Slack app that turns a checkmark on an inbound opportunity into an enriched, qualified deal in our CRM, with a brief on the people involved. Illustration of Meeting Prep in use Tools for my team Meeting Prep, a brief waiting before every sales call A calendar service that books a prep block before each outside meeting and fills it with a brief on who you're about to meet. The jukebox on an iPad playing Heaven by Warrant, with cream title cards, red selection codes and a queue of power ballads September 27, 2026 A 1989 jukebox for my gym A tabletop jukebox like the one I loved at Pizza Hut as a kid, built as a kiosk in my home gym so anyone can play the power ballads and hair metal I grew up on. A foil-wrapped sugar packet sliding toward a phone lying on a wooden table Pocket Cornhole Can a phone tell where a sugar packet landed? Yes, if you wrap the packet in foil. How a tabletop game idea turned into a question about touchscreens. Illustration of Pipeline Health in use Tools for my team Pipeline Health, a grade for the sales pipeline that matches how it feels A bar in our CRM that forecasts what the pipeline you're looking at will deliver against budget, and names the deals to work on. Illustration of Is it AI in use Tools for my team Is it AI? Looking for evidence instead of guessing A browser extension that looks for forensic evidence of AI in a website's code, design, copy and stack, and shows its work. The cover of Like Grandma Made, a red gingham book with a cream title panel Home Like Grandma Made, a cookbook of my grandmother’s recipes A printed cookbook of my grandmother’s recipes, designed to feel like sitting at her table, with the stories that made each dish hers. Illustration of Delivery Copilot in use Tools for my team Delivery Copilot, an AI assistant that stays beside the work A side panel that brings our internal delivery copilot next to the project you're looking at, with suggestions drawn from the record in front of you. Illustration of thoughtbot analytics in use Tools for my team thoughtbot analytics, one useful suggestion for every page A side panel on thoughtbot.com that says what's happening with the page you're on and the most valuable thing to improve. Illustration of Handbook Helper in use Tools for my team Handbook Helper, a better way to read our company handbook A reading layer over thoughtbot's handbook with a path for new people, handbook-only search, and a clear line between policies and guides. Illustration of Hub Helper in use Tools for my team Hub Helper, small fixes for the reports we read every week Sorting, filters, color bands and a one-click weekly review for the utilization and delivery reports in our internal app. Illustration of Pocket Cornhole in use Pocket Cornhole Pocket Cornhole, a bar game played on your phone Cornhole played by tossing a foil-wrapped sugar packet at a phone lying flat on the table. Illustration of Experiments in use Tools for my team Experiments, a home for what thoughtbot people build A catalog where thoughtbot people share the tools they make, try each other’s work, leave feedback, and vote on what’s ready for production. Illustration of Client Onboarding in use Tools for my team Client Onboarding, learning how a client works before kickoff A short intake wizard that asks new clients how they like to work, so we can match them with the right people. Illustration of Schedule Helper in use Tools for my team Schedule Helper, seeing who's free at a glance A resource-planning timeline for thoughtbot's team schedule, with one row per person and the filters we actually use. Illustration of Blog Helper in use Tools for my team Blog Helper, an editor that knows our style guide A panel beside our blog editor that reviews drafts against thoughtbot's editorial guidelines, suggests internal links and writes first drafts from notes. Illustration of Meeting Helper in use Tools for my team Meeting Helper, logging client meetings without thinking about it An extension that logs finished meetings to our CRM automatically and handles notes and follow-up right on Google Meet's goodbye screen. Illustration of Freshsales for thoughtbot in use Tools for my team Freshsales for thoughtbot, our CRM inside the inbox A sidebar in Gmail that shows who someone is in our CRM, the deal tied to a thread, and the people worth reconnecting with this week. Illustration of Hub Search in use Tools for my team Hub Search, Cmd+K for our internal app A fast search palette for thoughtbot's internal app that re-ranks results locally and never sends what you type anywhere new. Illustration of Rainbow Tabs in use July 25, 2026 Rainbow Tabs, sorting browser tabs by color A small Chrome extension that sorts the tabs in a window into rainbow order by the color of each site's icon. Illustration of Email Zenmaster in use Tools for my team Email Zenmaster, AI help in Gmail that still sounds like me Subject lines, one-click rewrites, a pre-send review and drafted replies inside Gmail, tuned so the result reads like a person wrote it. The NextScore home page, with an address search over a view of Los Angeles at sunset March 8, 2026 NextScore, finding the next neighborhood before the market does A tool for real estate investors that scores any Los Angeles address on early signals of change, down to the block. The ShareCheck home page, a single box to paste a link, text or screenshot February 22, 2026 ShareCheck, a quick check before you share A simple tool that helps people I love tell whether a link, a screenshot or a forwarded post is credible before they pass it on.