About ChainSolve
Built by engineers, for engineers
ChainSolve is a product of Godfrey Engineering Ltd — a UK engineering consultancy that got tired of building spreadsheet after spreadsheet for its own clients and decided to build a better tool.
Our mission
What we are trying to do
Replace the spreadsheet for technical work
The spreadsheet is the most widely-used calculation tool in engineering. It is also the worst, once a problem is non-trivial. Dependency graphs, not cell references, are the right mental model.
Keep the computation local
Engineering calculations should not require a round trip to a cloud. They should run at sub-frame latency in the browser you already have open. Rust + WebAssembly gets us there.
Let the engineer work in the open
A ChainSolve canvas is a URL. Share it, review it, audit it, embed it in a report. A calculation chain should be as accountable as a piece of code.
Values
How we build
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Accuracy
Every block is unit-tested against a reference implementation. We will not ship a numerical primitive that is subtly wrong.
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Transparency
The computation engine is open in spirit even if not yet open source. You can inspect every intermediate value at every step, always.
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Accessibility
WCAG 2.2 AA across the marketing site and the app. Keyboard-complete canvas. RTL layout for Hebrew. Engineering tools should not gatekeep.
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Innovation
We ship new block types every release. The block library is the product; if you tell us a calculation is painful, we listen.
History
How ChainSolve got here
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Godfrey Engineering founded
Ben Godfrey registers Godfrey Engineering Ltd in England & Wales (Companies House No. 16845827).
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First internal prototype
Tired of tolerance-stack spreadsheets, Ben builds the first block-graph calculator as an internal tool.
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Open beta
ChainSolve opens to external engineers. Workspaces, real-time collaboration alpha, first 50 block types ship.
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General availability
ChainSolve 1.0. 150+ block types, Team collaboration GA, SLA-backed compute API, full documentation, 7-locale UI.
Want to work with us?
Godfrey Engineering takes on a limited number of consulting engagements each year. If you have a hard engineering problem, we would like to hear about it.