A venture studio for the entrepreneur of one.
The Fractary is a venture studio built on one premise: a single person, working with AI agents and a stack they control, can build and run real ventures. The studio publishes the tools it uses, runs a community for founders doing the same, and builds its own ventures with all of it.
Our name, Fractary, represents the fractal nature of modern entrepreneurship—individuals creating outsized impact through the intelligent leverage of AI and automation. Master your systems. Own your future.
Discover
A community-sourced index of agents, skills, MCP servers, hooks, and more for building with AI.
Learn · Live
A one-semester program that takes a teen from an idea to a paying business, with an AI cofounder and the Make First Academy curriculum. Founding cohort forming.
Community
A free, invite-only community for solo founders with a $100K+ business. Founding cohort forming.
What we have built
What the studio has built with all of the above, from live products to early prototypes.
Founder
Founder & Principal, The Fractary
Founded by Josh McWilliam, who builds with the same stack the studio publishes.
joshmcwilliam.com →No affiliate links, no paid placements, no sponsored listings. The Foundry is free. The studio's business is building ventures and publishing open-source tools.
Everything here is built for solo founders and very small teams, not enterprise IT departments. If it needs a team to run, it doesn't fit.
The platform tools on this site are the ones the studio builds its own ventures with. Stockyard listings are indexed from public sources, and we say so. We don't claim to have tested what we haven't.
We prioritize tools that give you control and avoid vendor lock-in whenever possible. Open source when we can, exportable data always.
Members keep their companies. We don't take equity from members. We build our own ventures.
Browse the Stockyard, build on the platform, or request an invite to The Foundry.