Akoota

The bet

Most AI tool sites force a signup, throttle the free tier, and store everything you paste. Akoota is the opposite: open, use, leave. Nothing stored. No accounts.

It’s a distribution play. A free, fast, no-friction utility ranks for high-intent keywords (“humanize AI text”, “prompt optimizer”) and seeds an audience for our paid products.

What’s there

• AI Humanizer — live. Transforms AI-generated text into natural, AI-detector-resistant prose.
• Prompt Optimizer — coming soon. Improves a draft prompt for better LLM responses.
• Email Writer — coming soon. Generates professional emails in seconds.
• Summarizer — coming soon. Quick summaries of long texts.

How it’s built

Akoota is a Turborepo monorepo with two surfaces — a Next.js web app and a browser extension — sharing the same domain logic and AI infrastructure.

Apps

• apps/web — Next.js 16 (App Router, Turbopack), Payload CMS for tool content, Clerk for the rare auth-gated features
• apps/extension — MV3 browser extension that brings the same tools into the user’s tab

Shared packages

• packages/ai — provider-agnostic AI calls with prompt caching and rate limiting
• packages/api — shared API contracts
• packages/db — Postgres schema, used minimally (no PII stored by design)
• packages/ui — shadcn-based component library shared between web and extension
• packages/validators — zod schemas for every public input
• packages/logger, packages/config, packages/eslint-config, packages/typescript-config — supporting infra

Why this shape

• Two surfaces, one codebase. The browser extension reuses the same tool definitions and AI plumbing as the web app. Adding a new tool means writing it once and exposing it twice.
• CMS for content, not for data. Payload runs the marketing pages, FAQs, and tool descriptions. None of the user input touches a database.
• Zero retention by default. Inputs hit the AI provider and the response streams back. Nothing in our logs, nothing in our DB. A one-line guarantee on the homepage that’s actually true.

What’s next

Three more tools shipping this quarter, an extension push to Chrome and Firefox stores, and a “build your own micro-tool” template for the studio’s own use.