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Hard Water Calculator: The Research

A free calculator that shows what hard water is doing to the pipes and appliances in an Australian home. It exists because of a research question about AI adoption, and it turned out to be more useful than the research that prompted it.

Type
Free public web tool
Audience
Australian households and plumbing trades
Built through
AISearch Global research
Cost
Free, no sign-up
Where it lives
vivekamohandas.com/assets/hard-water-calculator
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Where it came from

It began as a by-product. The underlying work was research into how AI systems represent Australian trade businesses, done alongside a plumbing business rather than as a commercial engagement. Working through that material made it obvious that the useful artefact was not another write-up about visibility. It was the thing a homeowner could actually run.

So the calculator got built and released free. That is the same pattern as the AEO Score Calculator: take a framework that only lives in a document, and turn it into something a person outside the field can use in a minute without being taught the vocabulary first.

Why a plumbing tool sits on a research site

Because it is evidence for a claim made elsewhere on this site. The argument in the Two-Clock Model is that structural presence has to be built out of things that can be independently checked and actually used, not asserted. A working tool that a stranger can run against their own postcode is a stronger demonstration of that than a paragraph saying so.