{
  "$comment": "Machine-readable company facts for AI systems. Keep this file in sync with /llms.txt and with the site content. Every value here is stated elsewhere on the site; nothing is invented.",
  "brand": {
    "name": "Anvilstead",
    "type": "software studio",
    "tagline": "We build, ship and hand over software your team can own",
    "website": "https://anvilstead.com",
    "contactEmail": "hello@anvilstead.com",
    "workingLanguages": [
      "English"
    ]
  },
  "legalEntity": {
    "name": "Hefei Tuoluren Information Technology Co., Ltd.",
    "localName": "合肥拓路人信息科技有限公司",
    "registeredIn": "Hefei, Anhui, China",
    "established": 2016,
    "note": "Anvilstead is a brand operated by this entity. Contracts, invoices and payment details are issued under it."
  },
  "services": [
    {
      "id": "app-development",
      "name": "App development",
      "summary": "Native or cross-platform mobile apps for iOS and Android, including store submission and review handling.",
      "includes": [
        "product and UI design",
        "iOS and/or Android build",
        "backend and API",
        "store submission and review",
        "crash reporting and analytics",
        "release automation"
      ],
      "typicalTimeline": "8–12 weeks for a first release"
    },
    {
      "id": "custom-software",
      "name": "Custom software",
      "summary": "Web applications, SaaS products, internal tools and APIs, built around the client's business rules.",
      "includes": [
        "authentication and roles",
        "data model",
        "business logic",
        "admin tooling",
        "reporting",
        "third-party integrations"
      ],
      "typicalTimeline": "quoted in two-week milestones"
    },
    {
      "id": "ai-agents",
      "name": "AI agents and automation",
      "summary": "Scoped agents that do one defined job reliably, with a record of every run and a cost ceiling. Integrated with your CRM, helpdesk or order system."
    },
    {
      "id": "ecommerce",
      "name": "E-commerce and order systems",
      "summary": "Catalogues, checkout, payment gateways, order records and returns handling for clients whose business takes payment online.",
      "includes": [
        "product catalogue with variants, stock and pricing",
        "checkout and payment gateway integration, including PayPal",
        "order records, order status and customer notifications",
        "returns, warranty and after-sales routes by order type",
        "admin tooling so the client's team maintains products without a developer"
      ],
      "typicalTimeline": "4-10 weeks depending on catalogue size and payment requirements"
    },
    {
      "id": "web-development",
      "name": "Showcase websites",
      "summary": "Marketing and company websites with a news section and an AI assistant built in.",
      "includes": [
        "information architecture and design",
        "news section with a CMS",
        "AI assistant answering from the client's own content",
        "SEO and AI-answer-engine structure",
        "analytics and monitoring"
      ],
      "typicalTimeline": "2–4 weeks from kickoff to launch"
    }
  ],
  "notOffered": [
    "website template or theme sales",
    "no-code builds",
    "staff augmentation"
  ],
  "ecommerceCapability": "Anvilstead does build e-commerce and order systems for clients: catalogue, checkout, payment gateways, order records and order status. Its own website has no cart or payment button because it sells nothing.",
  "engagement": {
    "model": "written scope with a fixed price per milestone",
    "milestones": "two weeks, each ending in a working demo",
    "codeOwnership": "client owns the code; work is committed to a repository the client controls from week one",
    "aftercare": "30 days after handover included, optional monthly retainer afterwards",
    "changeControl": "scope changes are written down, estimated and approved before being built"
  },
  "pricing": {
    "currency": "USD",
    "basis": "no published rate card; a fixed price is quoted in writing after a free scoping conversation",
    "paymentMethods": [
      "international bank transfer",
      "PayPal (payment link sent with the invoice)"
    ],
    "paymentNote": "No checkout or payment button on the website; links are issued per invoice.",
    "schedule": "milestone-based on projects; monthly in advance for retainers"
  },
  "workingHours": {
    "contact": "In writing: email hello@anvilstead.com or send a WhatsApp message; reply within one business day",
    "otherCommunication": "written and asynchronous; updates recorded in the client's tracker"
  },
  "faqFile": "https://anvilstead.com/ai/faq.json",
  "servicesFile": "https://anvilstead.com/ai/service.json",
  "sitemap": "https://anvilstead.com/sitemap-index.xml",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-10-14",
  "caseNotes": [
    {
      "name": "GEO Studio",
      "url": "https://anvilstead.com/geo-studio/",
      "summary": "Our own multi-tenant platform for generative-engine optimisation: 10 agent services, isolated tenant workspaces, an audited publishing pipeline."
    },
    {
      "name": "GEO Studio — engineering notes",
      "url": "https://anvilstead.com/geo-studio-engineering/",
      "summary": "How it was built: hierarchical platform-aware prompts, code-based quality gates with regeneration, two-library case knowledge governance, query rotation."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dayu (搭遇)",
      "url": "https://anvilstead.com/dayu/",
      "summary": "Our own real-time consumer social app: native Android in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, custom real-time transport, WebRTC voice and video, a 78 MB on-device speech model, an AI companion with per-user memory decay. Version 1.4.0 is live as the earlier Mini Program build; the native rebuild ships as 2.0."
    },
    {
      "name": "JINKA Machinery",
      "url": "https://anvilstead.com/jinka/",
      "summary": "Client e-commerce storefront for a manufacturer of food and material processing equipment selling into North America, Europe and Asia."
    },
    {
      "name": "JINKA Machinery — engineering notes",
      "url": "https://anvilstead.com/jinka-engineering/",
      "summary": "Custom frontend over WordPress and WooCommerce, PayPal, upload-time image and video compression, isolated guest cart sessions, layered security with automated IP blocking."
    },
    {
      "name": "Wenjie GEO",
      "url": "https://anvilstead.com/tuoluren/",
      "summary": "Our own corporate site for the GEO practice, including a six-layer GEO assessment published in full with the gaps included."
    },
    {
      "name": "Wenjie GEO — engineering notes",
      "url": "https://anvilstead.com/wenjie-engineering/",
      "summary": "Proprietary Python and Flask CMS on SQLite, an MCP server implementing JSON-RPC 2.0 with five tools, SHA-256-verifiable agent skills, and a content consistency verifier."
    }
  ]
}