Our Story
The Great Equalizer
Over two decades, I’ve watched frontline workers get sidelined and told to just "do your job." The irony? They always knew exactly what was broken. Stepping up and raising a hand was met with "put in a ticket in with IT", a phrase universally understood to mean maybe we'll look at it next year.
Cue the collective eye roll.
Its this frustration that ultimately birthed the "citizen developer" movement and Shadow IT. Product ops. Finance analysts. Project coordinators. People who lived inside the work every day knew exactly where things jammed up, and they started spending their evenings learning the developer's tools of the trade. Then it happened... they already had the answers and were tired of waiting for permission, so they went rogue and started building the tools themselves.
I watched it play out across decades of software. Each new tool gave non-technical people a taste of real power, and each time, the solutions stayed trapped exactly where they were built. One office, one person, one file going nowhere.
Then Google changed the equation. Workspace gave everyone a shared platform. Apps Script made it programmable. I watched a marketing coordinator build mail merges on her lunch break and a finance analyst get her Friday nights back. For the first time, the people closest to the problems had a real language to solve them in, right inside the tools they used every day.
But the longer I worked with Apps Script, the more I saw the same ceiling. Every script lived right where it was written. Bound to one spreadsheet. Saved in one Drive folder no one else knew about. Somebody down the hall had already solved the exact same problem last month and nobody knew. Apps Script gave people the power to build, but it never gave them a way to share.
The knowledge wasn't lost. It was trapped.
After two years of dead ends, I stopped trying to work around Google's infrastructure and started building what was missing from it.
Claspr, a wrapper around Google's Clasp CLI tool, came first to help build, structure, and format libraries. Next came Claspm, the evolutionary extension for local library management. They were a beginning, not an answer. The deeper problem was that Apps Script had no shared ground: no registry to publish to, no scanner to trust, no tooling to tie the ecosystem together.
GasPackᵐ is that shared ground. A centralized registry for discovery. Automated security scanning for trust. An AI-powered Chrome extension and a CLI for the day-to-day. It doesn't replace what Google built. It completes it.
The urgency is only growing. Apps Script is becoming the nervous system for AI inside Workspace, and when agents start reading Sheets, drafting Docs, and approving expenses, they'll need exactly what human developers have always needed: tested, version-controlled packages they can trust.
GasPackᵐ isn't just preparing for that future. It’s providing the foundation that turns isolated scripts into a shared, trusted community.