A small studio, building useful tools.
Alumniyat is an editorial studio that publishes focused, free utility tools — one at a time, in public, with the sources we used cited at the bottom of every page.
Who we are
Alumniyat is a US-registered business operating from California. The studio is run by a small editorial team led by founder Omar Abu Assaf. We don't take outside funding, we don't sell leads, and we don't gate the tools behind signups or paywalls. Every utility we publish stays free and stays online — the only revenue on the site is from contextual advertising.
What we publish
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 of those frustrations, build the smallest possible tool that resolves it, write a long-form explainer to go with it, and ship the whole thing at its own URL on this domain.
Our nine current tools cover assisted-living licensing audits, California rent law, wildfire insurability, ADU planning, used-car records, Arabic poetry translation, homeowner FAIR Plan coverage, and pickleball court availability. None of them are perfect. All of them are kept simple, kept honest about what they don't know, and updated when their underlying data sources move.
How we work
Three rules guide the studio:
- Cite the source. If a number, statute, or claim appears in a tool, the source for it is visible on the page. We treat invisible authority as a red flag.
- Don't sell what the user already owns. The federal government, state agencies, and local jurisdictions publish enormous amounts of useful data that gets paywalled or buried by aggregators. We refuse to paywall information that's already public.
- One tool at a time. We finish a tool before starting the next. A small studio that ships nine reliable tools is more useful than a big one that ships forty broken ones.
What we're not
We're not a law firm, a real-estate brokerage, an insurance agency, a medical provider, or a financial advisor. Several of our tools touch areas where licensed professionals should be consulted before any consequential decision is made — and the tools say so, clearly, where it matters. If a tool's output suggests an action that could carry legal, financial, or medical weight, please verify it with someone licensed in your state before relying on it.
How we make money
The studio is supported by contextual display advertising shown alongside the tools, served by Google AdSense and similar networks. We don't run sponsored content, we don't accept paid placements inside the tools themselves, and we don't share user-submitted data with advertisers. If you'd like to know exactly what data is collected when you use the site, our privacy policy spells it out.
Get in touch
Found a bug, have feedback, or want to suggest a tool we should build next? We read every legitimate message and reply within two business days. The fastest way to reach us is email — see the contact page — or use the short form at the bottom of the homepage.