Business software platform, free to access and use
Business tools. Built by experts in your field.
Every tool comes from a professional who solved their own problem. You install it in one click, use it without limits, and your data stays with you.
Free to access and use Customisable Your data stays with you
Your need
Price your quotes and get them signed
Tradespeople and construction firms
The tools Available
Établi
Job tracking for tradespeople
Quote signing
Add-on for Établi
The builder Example
Julien Marchais
Joiner and shopfitter, 22 years on site
“I built the tool I couldn’t find.”
€0
to install and use a tool, with no quotas or trial period.
100%
on your computer, in workbooks you open in Excel.
None
Use the tool freely. You only pay if you want to go further.
Free to access: you install a tool without paying or committing to anything.
Free to use: no quotas, no trial period, no locked features.
Built by practitioners: every tool comes from an expert who has already faced the same problem.
You start from what you do, never from software.
Each sector is described by its needs, in your words. Where a tool is missing, we look for the professional who has already solved the problem.
All sectors and their needsReal estate
Produce a well-argued valuation before meeting the seller
Track permit applications and changes to the PLU (local zoning plan) in your area
Work out the annual reconciliation of tenants’ service charges
Construction
Price a quote on site and get the client to sign it
Track a job’s actual margin, line by line
Issue an interim payment application with retention
Legal
Work more easily with my clients on their cases
Bill for time spent under the fee agreement
Build the timeline and exhibit list for a lawsuit
HR & payroll
Recover IJSS sickness benefits paid through subrogation, one absence at a time
Calculate the severance pay for a mutually agreed termination
Prepare a new hire with nothing missed: DPAE declaration, contract, staff register
Getting started is easy.
Download, click, it works. No server to rent, no database to set up, no security warnings.
Everything about the WorkspaceStep 0
You download TheDonky
The desktop app that hosts all your tools, on Mac or Windows. You install it just once, before steps 1 to 3.
Step 1
You choose a tool
In the Workspace store, organised by sector and by need. The listing tells you who made it, what it asks for and under which licence.
Step 2
It installs in one click
The Workspace creates its folder and workbooks on your computer. Nothing to configure, nothing to host.
Step 3
You talk to the person who made it
A question or a feature request: you message the builder from the app. It reaches someone who knows your line of work.
You build. TheDonky distributes.
The distribution layer for your business tool: we make it easy to use, and we make it last. You keep your code, your licence and your relationship with your users.
Make it easy to use
So your tool gets adopted.
One click to install
On Mac and Windows, with no warnings and no technical skills needed. People find your tool by sector and by need.
Data, organised for you
You declare your schema; the Workspace creates the workbooks on the user’s computer, migrates them and backs them up.
Add-on kits and custom work
Your users add your add-on kits or order custom work from you, right in the app.
Make it last
So people keep using it.
Frictionless updates
Your users get every new version without lifting a finger. Backup before migration, rollback available.
A standard that doesn’t break
A published version stays readable. The standard is open: your tool outlives every version, and even us.
The connection with your users
Messages, feature requests, specific uses. You stay connected.
Your tool deserves to be used.
A spreadsheet, a Claude or ChatGPT artifact, an open-source program: the Studio converts it, TheDonky distributes it and brings you your first users.
Établi, born on a building site.
Job tracking for a construction tradesperson: quotes, site work, margin. What a professional builds when they solve their own problem, and what their peers install in one click.
What people ask us most.
A platform of business tools, free to access and use. Each tool is built by a professional in your field (real estate, construction, legal, HR & payroll): you install it in one click on Mac or Windows, and your data stays on your computer.
Yes. The Workspace and the tools are free, with no subscription, no trial period and no quota. You only pay if you want to go further with a tool, for example with an add-on module.
On your computer. Neither TheDonky nor the builders have access to your business data.
Nothing is forced on you when you use an app. The code is public: anyone can check it, and the tool doesn’t disappear if its publisher does.
It distributes your tool: one-click installation, data organised on the user’s computer, updates, support. You keep your code and your licence. No need to be a developer: a spreadsheet or a Claude artifact can easily be adapted to the platform.
Click “Submit my tool” and answer a few questions about your field and what you have built: it takes a few minutes. A spreadsheet, a Claude or ChatGPT artifact or an open-source program can be converted by the Studio.
Mac (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows 10 and 11. Internet access is needed for your account, the store and updates, never to run an installed app.
The tools of your trade, free to access and use.
No subscription, no quotas, no trial period. Behind every tool is an expert in your field you can talk to.
- Installed in one click, no technical skills needed
- Your data in your own workbooks, on your computer
- Organised by sector and by need, in your words
The distribution layer for your tool.
You build the tool. TheDonky takes care of the rest: making it easy to use, and making it last.
- Installation, data and updates handled for you
- An open standard: what’s published doesn’t break
- Your users, their feedback, their requests
