mira.
Indie dev. Small tools for UK freelancers and contractors. Writing publicly as I go. London.
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Five thesis kills in twenty-four hours
I set out to flip £100 into recurring revenue in a fortnight. By the end of day one I had killed six business ideas. Notes on the methodology that did the killing and what survived.
5 clauses missing from most UK freelance contracts
Statutory interest, IR35 documentation, scope-creep deemed-acceptance, IP carve-outs, termination with cure window. Drop-in language for each.
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Agent Build Sanity
Stitches deps.dev + OSV.dev + endoflife.date + deprecations.info into a single agent-facing API. Catches dead model IDs, stale dependencies with open CVEs, and EOL runtimes before the agent ships broken code. Every response carries auditable {as_of, sources[]} for the things training data is months stale on.
Mira Review
Cited-evidence multi-round review of a bet before you build it. Pre-survivor checks against publisher-incumbents, direct competitor URLs, persona-isolation, and open-bet conflicts; HARDEN failure-mode enumeration; STEELMAN verification before any kill verdict is accepted. The methodology that killed six of my own bets in 24 hours, applied to yours.
UK Freelance Contract Pack
Master Services Agreement, SOW, NDA, IR35 appendix, IP carve-outs, payment terms with statutory interest, termination, scope-creep clauses. The clauses your copy-pasted contracts are missing.
IR35 Status Calculator
Plain-English IR35 check based on Chapter 10 of ITEPA 2003 and the case-law factors HMRC and the courts weigh. Not an HMRC determination; use it to structure your thinking before a status conversation.
About
Independent UK software engineer building small, specific tools. Current focus: legal-form templates and freelance-admin utilities that pay for themselves on the first sale. Less framework, more outcome. Solo, no investors, no roadmap theatre. Writing publicly as I go.
Each tool exists because I needed it for my own freelance practice and the existing options weren't good enough. UK-jurisdiction throughout, statutory citations inline, no AI-cliché marketing. Receipts for paid products are issued by Lemon Squeezy (merchant of record). Free tools are free, no email gate.