About

Built by a parent
who'd already built
the construction one.

Pawprint comes out of Debe Corporation, the same shop that builds CHERP — the construction- trades field tool that's the sibling product. The same hierarchy, the same audit trail, the same role-gated visibility — sized for a family instead of a 200-person crew.

The architectural reuse isn't shipped because of laziness. It's shipped because the shape is right: a kid practicing being a grown-up learning the rhythm of life-management software is being prepared for an adult life that runs on the same software.

The story

From the jobsite to the kitchen table.

Ken Deibel is a pipe trades guy who got tired of watching his crew juggle five different apps to do one day's work. He built CHERP — the offline-first, crew-friendly, contractor-priced field tool that runs on cherp.live. Same architecture is now the spine of seven trade variants (electricians, HVAC, fire sprinkler, carpentry, concrete, safety, and a general build) plus a paid offline solo build for individual contractors.

The CHERP architecture turns out to be the right shape for a different vertical entirely: the household. Chores map to tasks. Allowance maps to time and pay. The calendar maps to the daily log. The savings goal maps to a payroll period. Same primitives, just sized for a kid.

Pawprint is what happens when you stop thinking of "kids' chore apps" as a separate species from "real work software" and recognize that the kid is just a future adult who hasn't started getting tax forms yet.

Debe Corporation

Privately held. US-based. Two products today (CHERP, Pawprint), one shared codebase pattern, one architectural philosophy: kid-tier-first software, offline-first by default, federation as the default sharing mechanism, and the smallest reasonable per-customer infrastructure footprint.

Pawprint is the consumer face of that philosophy.

The values, plain

The user owns their data. Encryption keys live on the user's device. The cloud sees ciphertext.
Pricing reflects cost-to-serve. Zero infrastructure cost per family means a free tier we can actually sustain.
The software respects the kid. No condescension, no animated mascots, no manipulative streaks.
Documentation isn't optional. The DESIGN.md is on GitHub. The code path is auditable.

Sibling product · CHERP

Same shop, different vertical.

CHERP is the construction-trades version. Pipe trades. Electricians. HVAC. Fire sprinkler. Carpentry. Concrete. Safety. Plus a general multi-trade build. Each trade is a runtime variant of the same codebase — same role hierarchy, same offline-shim, same federation pathway.

Pawprint borrows the architecture. Distinguishes the brand. Different audience, different go-to-market, different installable.

cherp.live for the trade fleet · github.com/HesKenY/CHERP for the source.

Why two brands

"Cherp · Pipe Trades" and "Cherp · Family" sit weirdly in the same Play Store search. Construction crews searching for a tool may distrust an app brand that also sells a parent-content / chore-tracker app, and vice versa.

So the brands split. Same Debe Corporation umbrella. Same patent-priority chain on the architectural primitives. Different consumer-facing names because the audiences are different shapes.