Tools for tracking and managing things.
Skills, people, equipment, clothing. AVUT — Assorted Vaguely Useful Tools — is a small set of org-scoped tools for volunteer and emergency-response teams. It's a side project, not a startup. It's free, and the source is open.
Six modules. Turn on the ones you need.
Every module is scoped to an organisation. Admin is always on; the rest are switched per org in settings.
See all toolsUsers, teams, personnel and invitations for your organisation.
Read-only views of the D4H data you already maintain.
Issue, inspect and return equipment and PPE, with templates per item type. Runs on your D4H equipment records.
Rich-text notes that live with the org instead of in someone's inbox.
Skill checks, assessment sessions, a catalogue and reports on who's current.
Author the skill packages your assessors work from, and version them.
Already on D4H? Point AVUT at it.
Add a read-only access token and AVUT reads your members, equipment and activities straight from D4H, so nothing gets re-typed and nothing gets written back. D4H Views and I3 both build on that connection; Admin, Skill Track, Notes and the Skill Package Builder stand on their own.
Nothing. There's no plan to price.
No seats, no tiers, no trial clock. AVUT exists because the tools were needed; if that changes you'll hear it here first, and your data comes out the way it went in.
The honest answers.
It's a real, working application and a genuine side project. It's used, it's maintained, and it isn't a company.
You can create an account, but the tools only make sense inside an organisation — either you create one, or someone in your team invites you.
For D4H Views and I3, yes — both read your D4H data, so they need a connected D4H account. Admin, Skill Track, Notes and the Skill Package Builder don't.
In a Postgres database in Sydney (AWS ap-southeast-2), scoped per organisation. The privacy policy spells out what's collected and why.
Read the code, file an issue, or run your own copy. Next.js, Postgres, tRPC — nothing exotic.