# Matt Dailey (slim)

> Matt Dailey is founder and CEO of Ref. Ref on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Founder and CEO, Ref.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewjdailey/
- X: https://x.com/reactiverobot

## What Matt builds

- [Ref](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ref.md), graded C, 59.5/100, in Code & developer platforms. Ref Context is a hosted MCP server from Ref Software, Inc. Its two tools search public documentation and a user's private repositories and PDFs, then read a page as Markdown trimmed to the relevant sections. Founder and CEO, Ref, researched 2026-10-27.

## Questions

### Who is Matt Dailey?

Matt Dailey is founder and CEO of Ref.

### What does Ref Software, Inc make?

Anchor Terminal lists Ref from Ref Software, Inc.

### How are Matt's tools graded?

Ref is graded C, 59.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://ref.tools/
- https://ref.tools/blog/ai-broke-alignment
- https://ref.tools/blog/how-i-design-with-ai
- https://docs.ref.tools/
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ref-tools/ref-tools-mcp/main/README.md

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.