Melanie Kertley
Operator · Builder · Est. 2025
The product line

Things I've built.

SanctumTools LLC is the software company behind the products below — a live line, not a list of prototypes. Each one was directed through an AI build process, end to end.

The SanctumTools LLC product line
Founder · 2026Live · a SanctumTools product

Tablespread

Premium menu planning for people who have a full kitchen and still don't know what to make. Scan what you've got, let the AI sous chef design the week around it, and walk out with one organized shopping list — your pantry keeps itself current as you cook. Built to make dinner stop being a daily decision. Live and public, with full legal docs and payments processing — my most complete product to date, designed and shipped by directing the AI team.

Live and public · full legal docs · payments processing.
Status
Live & public
Entity
A SanctumTools product
My role
Founder & build director
Founder · 2025–presentPrivate beta

The SanctumTools wellness app

A life coach for people managing serious mental illness — an AI companion that tracks mood, meds, sleep, and more through conversation, surfaces your patterns, and helps you get through the day. The first product of SanctumTools LLC. Dogfooded daily on my own rapid-cycling bipolar I; built by directing an AI team.

A SanctumTools LLC product
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Founder · 2026Live

The Poor Man's Budget Tool

A budgeting app for people living paycheck to paycheck — built on the only question that matters when money's tight: what do I pay first? No AI, no bank connection, no account numbers. Free, with login + cloud sync, and an optional Household tier for couples and caregivers.

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Also built — guides, writing & open source
01
AI Cover Letter Guide
A step-by-step workflow for using AI to write targeted job-application cover letters in two minutes. Built from 70+ real applications.
Guide · CC BY 4.0
Live
02
ChameleonGeneration.com
A Generation X publishing platform on technological adaptation and the cost of constant reinvention. Co-founded; voice and concept under the byline Angel Eyes '73.
Co-founded · 2026
Live
03
Sanctum Patterns
Battle-tested design patterns for stateful, time-aware AI assistants — extracted from real production work. Documentation-first, framework-agnostic, free to use anywhere.
Open source · MIT
Live
04
How to Shape Claude Into Your Personal Life Coach
A free, step-by-step guide to turning Claude into an assistant that actually knows you and helps you run your life — written for regular people, not engineers. I run my own life on mine, so this isn't a demo; it's the load-bearing version, handed over.
Guide · CC BY 4.0
Live
05
Baseline — A Bipolar Life in Real Time
Long-form memoir of thirty-five years of undiagnosed rapid-cycling bipolar disorder and the AI-assisted self-discovery that finally named the pattern.
Memoir · In progress
In progress
06
Building My Sanctum
The build-in-public blog: making a mental-health life coach while living with the brain it's designed for. The build in real time, mood shifts and all — unsanitized.
Blog · 2026–
Live
07
melaniekertley.com
This site. Custom email-link auth via DWD impersonation, a Claude-powered chat layer, a tag-gated post feed. Built in 6 hours with the AI team. Runs on a website-context-aware AI framework I helped develop. Repo available on request.
This site · 2026
Live