Building Aurekai and Bonfÿre
Business software, native systems, websites and connected products
Aurekai Work · Life · Live · Shop · Bonfÿre
I'm building Aurekai, an operating business that develops products and works with existing businesses, creators, publishers and communities. Underneath it is Bonfÿre, the native software platform I'm building to handle the parts those businesses have in common.
I've spent a lot of time around existing websites, PHP and SQL systems, business applications and integrations. A company might need to move an old site, keep its reporting intact, connect its customers to a CRM and improve the way staff work. A publisher may need a home for articles, recordings and contributors. A retailer may need product records that work in a catalogue, procurement system and room planner.
Those seem like unrelated projects until you start building them. They need many of the same things: identity, accounts, records, data access, publishing, communications, finance and useful automation.
That's what Aurekai is built around. AI has made it possible to create software much faster, and I want that development work to accumulate into a business that can support more than one product. The company can share the technology while each business or creator keeps its own name, customers and work.
Aurekai has four public areas. They're places for different kinds of work, not four separate applications.
| Destination | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Work | Organizations, jobs, opportunities, business relationships and account applications |
| Life | People, profiles, communities, collections and publishing |
| Live | Creators, recordings, channels, media and events |
| Shop | Products, suppliers, catalogues, sourcing and commerce |
An independent retailer can also have its own website and customer experience. The white-label site examples show what that means for branding, content and access.
The market signals are part of why I'm pursuing this approach. The U.S. Chamber's 2026 small-business research found 41% of respondents using at least six technology platforms. W3Techs' November 2026 survey still puts WordPress on 39.4% of measured sites. I want to work with the software and business knowledge people have already built, while developing the new applications they need. I keep a source-linked research page for the other markets Aurekai is entering.
Bonfÿre is the technical foundation behind those products. It brings together Matrix identity and addressing, Source Library, WorkGraph, native commands, Frappe-based application grammars, local models, media tooling, finance and connected web experiences.
The native development estate currently includes 93 command families, 1,840 Frappe-derived DocTypes across 51 modules, and a WorkGraph with 20,487 nodes. Those systems cover much more than the public demos in the GitHub Pages collection.
For a concrete example of how the architecture is intended to work: an external job posting can be retained once, shown in discovery and continued into a CRM or narrated update through the applications an account actually uses. Or a supplier's product can move from a catalogue into a 3D room plan without becoming an unrelated item in each tool.
| Start here | What you'll see |
|---|---|
| Aurekai product guide | The operating business, product families, account work and public network |
| Bonfÿre technical guide | Native architecture, applications, source systems, WorkGraph, models and compute |
| Bonfÿre source | The public repository, developer tools, implementations and architecture |
| Applications and studios | Browser workspaces for design, sourcing, media, documents and more |
| Federated source atlas | Standalone tools, pinned dependencies, integrations and source lineages |
| Aurekai and Bonfÿre | How the business and technology fit together, with actual examples |
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