Public Micro-Tools Growth Engine & Canonical Tool Registry

The Cora Public Micro-Tools Growth Engine provides high-utility, search-optimized tools directly in the browser. Rather than gated PDF downloads or shallow AI wrappers, each tool runs client-side calculations to resolve operational and financial bottlenecks for creative service firms.

1. Growth Engine Architecture & Inventory

The portfolio spans 63 verified public micro-tools across 10 problem domains indexed in tools-canonical-registry.ts:

• WordPress & Stack Health: TCO calculator, publishing friction, and Elementor migration.
• Conversion & Lead Funnel: Lead response time leakage and intake calculators.
• Agency Margins & Economics: Scope creep exposure, effective hourly rate, and service pricing.
• AI Search & GEO: AI crawler access checker for OpenAI, Claude, and Perplexity bots.
• PDF & Document Processing: 28 in-browser PDF manipulation and compression utilities.
• Finance & GST Tax: SAC 9983 18% GST calculators and retainer models.

2. 6 Priority Flagship Tools

1. WordPress Plugin Stack Cost Calculator (/tools/wp-plugin-cost-calculator): Analyzes total cost of ownership including plugin renewals, security maintenance, and consolidation savings.
2. Website Lead-Leakage Calculator (/tools/lead-leakage-calculator): Quantifies pipeline losses from inquiry response latency.
3. Agency Scope-Creep Calculator (/tools/scope-creep-calculator): Computes unbilled revision hours and margin contraction.
4. Service Project Pricing Calculator (/tools/service-pricing-calculator): Models healthy service margins and generates milestone payment structures.
5. WordPress Publishing Friction Calculator (/tools/wp-publishing-friction-calculator): Pinpoints formatting and copy-paste bottlenecks between Google Docs and CMS.
6. AI Crawler Access Checker (/tools/ai-crawler-checker): Diagnoses robots.txt directives for LLM bots (OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot).

3. Browser-Only Computing & Privacy Modes

Tools execute deterministic models entirely in client browser memory (JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas). No proprietary figures, hourly rates, client quotes, or uploaded PDFs leave the visitor's local machine.

4. Zero-PII Analytics Governance

Telemetry via lib/tools-analytics.ts records strictly anonymous lifecycle events (tool started, calculation mode, and anonymous diagnostic tier). Input figures, business names, and financial metrics are never collected.