Chemaclass
Chemaclass is the personal software-development and publishing site of Jose M. Valera Reales (Chema), focused on building software, teams, and ideas. He writes about software craftsmanship, leadership, AI agents, and Bitcoin; creates open-source tools; and builds websites and web applications for small businesses and independent professionals.
At a Glance
- Small businesses and independent professionals
- Software developers and engineering teams
- PHP and Bash open-source communities
- Independent gyms and fitness studios
- +1 more
AI Tools by Chemaclass
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agnostic-ai
AI Config Sync CLI Tool
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Latest News
Published 'Ownership Is Accepted, Never Assigned,' on ownership and engineering leadership.
Published 'The Human Bottleneck,' about AI-agent speed, review, and where human attention matters.
Published 'Working With the Garage Door Open,' on working in public and directing useful signal.
Published 'Cut the Token Bill on Both Ends,' describing techniques to reduce AI-agent and terminal context costs.
Products & Services
Open-source CLI that keeps agents, skills, rules, hooks, MCP servers, settings, and related specifications in .agnostic-ai and generates native configuration for supported AI coding tools. It can initialize projects, create specs, import existing configurations, sync outputs, check drift, and install via Homebrew, npm, Go, Windows installer, or binaries.
Open-source testing framework for Bash scripts with assertions, mocks, spies, data providers, snapshots, parallel/sharded execution, coverage, and CI-friendly JUnit, TAP, JSON, HTML, and Markdown reports.
A Lisp dialect and functional language that compiles to PHP. It offers macros, persistent data structures, PHP interoperability, recursion, a REPL, and deployment on PHP hosts. Chema is listed as a core maintainer; the project was created with Jens Haase.
Web application for independent gyms and class-based fitness businesses: member bookings, timetables, waiting lists, attendance, payment status, and progress tracking.
Market Position
Chemaclass is an individual builder rather than a conventional venture-backed software company. Its positioning combines senior software-engineering and team-leadership expertise, educational writing, open-source products, and direct-to-client web work. agnostic-ai differentiates by treating portable specs as the source of truth and generating native configuration across a broad set of AI CLIs; bashunit competes with other Bash test libraries while emphasizing modern developer experience and broad test/CI features; Phel offers a PHP-native alternative for developers interested in Lisp and functional programming.
Leadership
Founders
Jose M. Valera Reales (Chema)
Product Engineer and software developer with 15+ years building software and 5+ years leading teams. His CV lists software roles at Kombo, Purpose Green, ABOUT YOU, Lautsprecher Teufel, Seven Senders, Move24, Webgears, Falk medizinische Datenverarbeitung, LEVERADE, and Tecnoavanza; he specializes in layered architecture, modular monoliths, TDD, SOLID, and engineering leadership.
Founding Story
Chemaclass is presented as Chema's personal home for building software, teams, and ideas rather than as a separately incorporated company. His work grew from professional software development, open-source experimentation, writing, and practical products: he describes open-source pet projects as a way to learn, set his own roadmap, and share useful software. The Phel project began after he encountered it in June 2020 and wanted to apply functional-programming and software-design ideas in a PHP-native language; bashunit grew from frustration with manually testing Bash automation.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Personal consulting and fixed-price website/web-application projects, plus subscription revenue from operated applications such as MIAFORO and puertafria. Open-source projects are distributed freely and the site also accepts sponsorship/support.
Pricing Tiers
One-time fixed project fee; from year two, €50/year hosting and domain, with optional €100/year care.
One-time fixed project fee; from year two, €50/year hosting and domain, with optional €200/year care.
Up to 5 users.
Up to 50 users; site also displays €29/month on annual billing and a first-month-free offer.
Up to 150 users; site also displays €42/month on annual billing and a first-month-free offer.
One user, queue, adjacent research, call history, and CSV import/export.
Unlimited lists, tracking fields, editable reminders, and AI-agent MCP access.
Planned tier for teams of up to five users.
Target Markets
- Small businesses and independent professionals
- Software developers and engineering teams
- PHP and Bash open-source communities
- Independent gyms and fitness studios
- Solo cold callers and small sales teams
- Software developers managing shared AI-agent instructions across multiple coding CLIs
- Teams that need reproducible, drift-checked AI tooling configuration in repositories and CI
- Bash developers testing scripts and shell automation across Linux, macOS, and Windows via WSL
- PHP developers wanting Lisp-style functional programming and direct PHP ecosystem interoperability
- Independent gyms, CrossFit boxes, personal-training studios, and neighborhood sports centers
- Small businesses, independent professionals, architects, researchers, and organizations needing a fast website or blog
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