Kosha
Lightweight Indian language NLP toolkit. Tokenization, transliteration, and entity recognition for 12 Indian languages. Built for the Indic AI community.
An initiative of ChoiceLess — Business Catalysts
We build tools —
We build tools —
then give them away.
ChoiceLess is a community-first engineering initiative creating open source tools, libraries, and frameworks that solve real problems — for developers, founders, educators, and teams. No licensing fees. No vendor lock-in. No gatekeeping.
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Why We Give
Open source is not a marketing strategy
We believe the best engineering is shared engineering. Every tool we build is a gift to the community that taught us everything we know. No freemium tiers, no enterprise bait-and-switch, no data collection. Just useful code, freely given.
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Built in public
Every line of code is open from day one. You can read our repo, fork it, audit it, and contribute to it. No hidden sauce.
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No extraction
We don't build open source to upsell you on a paid product. What we give is what we use ourselves — complete and functional.
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Community owned
You don't need our permission to use, modify, or redistribute any of our work. MIT and Apache 2.0 licensed by default.
What We've Built
Tools we use, then gift
Every project here is production-tested by us before it's released. Some are frameworks we extracted from client work. Others are experiments that grew into something useful.
SpecSmith
AI-assisted spec-driven development workflow. Write specs, generate tests, implement with AI harnesses. Designed for teams that want AI to augment, not replace, engineering discipline.
PulseBoard
Real-time team health dashboard for engineering orgs. Tracks cycle time, deployment frequency, incident response, and AI tooling adoption. Self-hosted, no data leaves your infra.
MailDrop
Disposable email API for developers. Test authentication flows, email integrations, and notification pipelines without spamming real inboxes. Single binary, zero external dependencies.
Get Involved
Community is a verb
You don't need to pay us to work with us. Contribute, fork, report issues, or just tell us what you're building.
Contribute
Found a bug? Want a feature? Open an issue or submit a PR. Every project has a CONTRIBUTING.md with clear guidelines.
GitHubRequest a tool
Need an open source tool that doesn't exist yet? Tell us. If it fits our philosophy, we'll build it and gift it to the community.
RequestCollaborate
Building something interesting? We contribute to community projects too. Let's collaborate on something that helps more people.
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Stories & Insights
Building in public, thinking in public
Notes from our open source journey. What we learned, what we're building, and why we give it away.
Why we chose MIT over AGPL
The licensing decision that defined our community. Why copy-left doesn't always mean community-friendly, and what we optimise for instead.
Jul 2026Building tools for the Indic AI ecosystem
Indian language NLP is underserved by open source. How Kosha came to be, and what we learned building for 12 languages simultaneously.
Jun 2026Spec-driven development with AI
How SpecSmith changes the AI coding workflow: write the spec first, let AI implement against it, and keep engineering discipline intact.
May 2026
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Let's build something worth giving away.
Have an idea for an open source tool? Want to contribute to an existing project? Or just want to say hello — all are welcome here.