Useful tools, made one at a time.

Alumniyat is an independent editorial studio. We build small, free utility tools, ship them at their own URLs, and keep them online. Every Alumniyat tool starts the same way: a real, recurring frustration somewhere in American life — an insurance market quietly cratering, a state law that just changed and almost nobody knows it yet, a piece of public government data that exists but is hidden behind a slow PDF. We pick one, build the smallest possible tool that resolves it, write a long-form explainer to go with it, and ship the whole thing here.

Three rules guide the work: cite the source on every claim, refuse to paywall information that’s already public, and finish one tool before starting the next. The studio is funded by contextual display advertising shown alongside the tools — not by referral fees, lead sales, sponsored content, or pay-to-rank placements. The full editorial position is on the about page; what we collect when you visit is on the privacy policy.

What you’ll find below: eight live tools so far — assisted-living licensing audits, California rent law, wildfire insurability, ADU planning, used-car records, Arabic poetry translation, FAIR Plan coverage, and a pickleball court map. None are perfect. All are kept simple, honest about what they don’t know, and updated when their underlying data sources move. New tools land as they’re finished.