# Simon Courtois > Simon Courtois is CTO and Co-founder. PDFMonkey on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/simon-courtois/ - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/simon-courtois/index.md (~800 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/simon-courtois/index.min.md (~530 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/simon-courtois/index.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (the key docs and every listing in one file, at most 16 MB, about 4 million tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - DNS: dig +short TXT .grade.anchorterminal.com (the grade as a DNS TXT record, for a sandbox with no HTTP where names still resolve; also top., best.. and .vs.. under the zone, and the same under grade.letme.dev) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-11-03 CTO and Co-founder. Simon Courtois is CTO and co-founder of PDFMonkey, where the blog's author note says he supervises the development and evolution of the platform. He wrote the post-mortem of the 29 September 2026 slowdown and the announcements of CLI 2.0 and the MCP server in October 2026. - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simoncourtois/ ## What Simon builds - [PDFMonkey](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pdfmonkey.md), graded C, 59.3/100, in PDF tools. PDFMonkey is a hosted service from a Paris company that generates PDFs and images from Liquid or Builder templates and JSON data, through a REST API, a CLI, Ruby and Node.js SDKs, and a local MCP server. CTO and Co-founder, researched 2026-11-03. ## Questions ### Who is Simon Courtois? Simon Courtois is CTO and co-founder of PDFMonkey, where the blog's author note says he supervises the development and evolution of the platform. He wrote the post-mortem of the 29 September 2026 slowdown and the announcements of CLI 2.0 and the MCP server in October 2026. ### What does PDFMonkey make? Anchor Terminal lists PDFMonkey from PDFMonkey. PDFMonkey is a hosted service from a Paris company that generates PDFs and images from Liquid or Builder templates and JSON data, through a REST API, a CLI, Ruby and Node.js SDKs, and a local MCP server. ### How are Simon's tools graded? PDFMonkey is graded C, 59.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist. ## Sources - https://pdfmonkey.io/blog/2026-10-01-post-mortem-tiny-counter-froze-our-api/ - https://pdfmonkey.io/blog/2026-10-13-pdfmonkey-cli-2.0/ - https://pdfmonkey.io/docs/getting-started/support/ - https://pdfmonkey.io/contact/ - https://pdfmonkey.io/docs/account-and-security/compliance-and-dpa/ - https://www.iubenda.com/terms-and-conditions/72376615 - https://github.com/pdfmonkey/pdfmonkey-mcp 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. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. If a page is about you, link your account from it to write the about and set the links yourself. For a photo, a correction or to have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com. --- Query this catalogue directly over MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no key). How: https://www.anchorterminal.com/agents/#mcp