Catalystic is its own company. We just run what's underneath it — hosting, tooling, the audit pipeline. This is our first time writing publicly about that arrangement, so it seemed worth explaining properly instead of just linking to their site and moving on.
What Catalystic actually does
Catalystic optimizes site speed for local businesses. A business sends over their URL and gets a free audit against Google's Core Web Vitals — the metrics that decide, among other things, how a site gets ranked and how many visitors bounce before it even finishes loading. If the owner wants to go further, Catalystic offers a same-day, flat-fee pass to actually fix what the audit turns up: compressing images, clearing render-blocking scripts, minifying code, setting up proper caching.
For sites where a quick pass isn't enough — old templates, bloated page builders, years of accumulated plugins — Catalystic can also do a full rebuild instead, which goes further but stays within the same flat-fee approach rather than an open-ended project quote. And for sites still sitting on slow or unreliable hosting, Catalystic can move them onto Anonymux's own hosting, which runs on a faster, globally distributed network rather than a single server in one location.
Either way, the client walks away with a before-and-after report, so the owner isn't just taking Catalystic's word for it.
We like that it's a narrow, unglamorous problem. A slow site loses a business customers in ways the owner can feel — people leaving, calls not coming in — without necessarily knowing why, and without the time or technical background to go dig into it themselves. Catalystic exists specifically to close that gap, for a flat number that doesn't require a sales call to understand.
Where the line sits
Catalystic is, today, a separate business — its own name, its own client relationships, its own decisions about how the service is run. What's ours is everything technical underneath that: the servers it runs on, the tooling that generates each audit. We built that side of it and we maintain it; Catalystic is the one talking to the businesses, doing & closing the work, and standing behind the result.
Two names on the door, one set of pipes underneath.
It's a clean split in practice, even if it's an unusual one to describe. Most partnerships either stay fully arm's-length or get folded together immediately. This one sits in between — closer than a vendor relationship, not yet a single company.
Why this, why now
Businesses, one of our own products, already puts us in front of local business owners every day. Catalystic is more of that same audience, aimed at a different problem: speed, instead of having a working site in the first place. It made sense to build the technical side of that ourselves rather than leave it to someone else, given how much of it overlaps with infrastructure we already run.
There's a simpler reason too. Anonymux is still a small studio, and small studios benefit from a public paper trail — a record of what's being built, with whom, and why, before any of it needs to be explained after the fact. This post is that record for Catalystic: the first public statement that it exists, what it does, and how it connects back to us.
What comes next
Catalystic is a separate business today. That's not necessarily how it stays — bringing it in fully is something we're actively weighing, and this arrangement may end up being a stepping stone rather than the permanent shape of things. We'll say more if and when there's more to say.
If your site is slow
The audit itself is free, and any fix is quoted as a flat fee before work starts — no hourly billing, no surprise invoice. Head to catalystic.anonymux.org, submit your URL, and you'll have a real Core Web Vitals report and a quote back the same day.