Referee ReportThe manuscript at hand reports an overview of the computational alchemy approach to evaluate catalysts and provides a standard procedure to perform such computations for specific applications. The paper does not present any new research, but rather outlines the computational alchemy method and provides an open-source and user-friendly tool to the community for them to efficiently perform their own catalyst search. Computational alchemy is an approximate method that allows us to obtain large data from a single DFT calculation, thus allowing us to perform large-scale screening of catalysts. This method was initially described by Straatsma and McCammon in 1992 and has been recently shown to hold great promise in accelerating catalyst search with less computational effort. The current work gives a detailed review of this approach and describes all the approximations that go into the methodThe manuscript provides two examples of implementation of the method, which include prediction of binding energies for OH adsorption on Pt(111) surface and predictions of reaction barriers of CH4* dehydrogenation on Pt(111) surface. These two examples serve as benchmarks of the method for binding energy estimation and reaction barrier estimation, respectively. Additionally, the authors have developed a web interface, using Jupyter Notebooks, for an easy understanding of the implementation of the method.  In conclusion, the manuscript is predominantly well written, presents a clear description of the methodology, benchmarks the methods using two examples, and provides clear and user-friendly software. I believe the tools provided will be of significant use to the materials design community and aid in the design of new catalyst materials. My recommendation, therefore, is to accept the manuscript to be published in the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry.I identified a few typos in the manuscript, which I mentioned as comments on the Authorea platform.