ragbaz · رگباز
RAGBAZ is a software atelier building tooling for people who think in systems: mail routing and policy enforcement (mailguard), documentation platforms, conversational infrastructure, headless content pipelines, AI-assisted education, and typesetting utilities — each product a precise instrument rather than a platform play. The name is a transliteration of رگباز, a Farsi compound readable as "vein-player" or "one who works the channels" — apt for infrastructure that routes, filters, and delivers. Every product shares the same design vocabulary: a gruvbox-warm palette with orange ember headings and cyan-blue accents, monospaced type, border-led surfaces with no gradients and no blur, and a lowercase terse voice that refuses ornament.
RAGBAZ builds for operators, not consumers. The aesthetic discipline is not decoration — it is a statement of values: clarity over charm, legibility over delight, substance over surface. Tools should read like a well-maintained configuration file: intentional, self-evident, and free of ceremony. The design system enforces this structurally; glassmorphism, rounded-full pills, and glow shadows are not style choices you can opt back into — they are outside the vocabulary. Complexity is earned, not assumed. Each product starts from the smallest surface that tells the truth about the problem.
The emotional register of RAGBAZ is warm precision — the feeling of a terminal that has been configured exactly right, of a codebase where nothing is accidental. The amber glow of #f3c46c against dark stone is not chosen arbitrarily; it is the color of a desk lamp at 2 a.m., of work that matters to the person doing it. RAGBAZ products are built for the kind of user who reads release notes, who notices when a border radius changes by 2 px, who would rather have a tool that does one thing honestly than a platform that promises everything. The brand asks nothing of the user except attention — and in return offers something increasingly rare: software that respects how you think.
Coverage
Six documentation namespaces. Each node below opens its own overview.
Products
Shipped and actively maintained tooling — mailguard, articulate, and more.
Experiments
In-progress probes and prototypes not yet promoted to product.
Infrastructure
Deployment topology, DNS, CI/CD, and operational runbooks.
Private
Internal notes, credentials scaffolding, and decision logs.
Archive
Retired projects and historical references kept for continuity.
Vendor
Third-party integrations, API contracts, and dependency notes.
Flagship paths
Deep-dives worth starting from.
MATCHES
Autonomous cinematic battle simulation — the flagship RAGBAZ product.
Frog
Workspace coordination CLI — tasks, locks, repos, MCP integration.
Design System
Brand vocabulary, tokens, components governing all RAGBAZ surfaces.
Articulate Universe
Headless WP commerce — storefront, plugin, and content pipeline.
Gatekeeper
Hardened Rust ingress and runtime layer for WordPress deployments.
DetCordon
Containment-first malware observation sandbox in Rust.
Typesetr
Docx-to-PDF typesetting pipeline with bleed, crop marks, and front matter.
Shipwrecks.se
Historical maritime data platform — Swedish wreck registry and search.