Production-grade creative tools for people making books.

Catalpas Atelier began with a problem the three of us kept meeting from different sides: a manuscript or creative project can be written, revised, and nearly ready for publication, yet still get held up by device limits, platform assumptions, budget pressure, and a complicated production chain.

Oscar writes fiction on his own server and once used a handheld device to format and print a long manuscript. Joanna saw design students lose access to the software and hardware they had relied on as soon as they left school. Josephine saw small publishing and creative teams spend too much energy on costs, file versions, and industry software barriers.

We are building Catalpas Atelier to make production-grade creative tools more accessible to authors, designers, editors, and small publishing teams. Our first public product, Scribe, is a desktop workspace for Windows, macOS, and Linux that brings Markdown writing, preview, layout, and publishing export into one local workflow. We believe people who take books seriously should be able to move their work forward on their own devices, with their own files, and with a clear process they can trust.