What I’m working on
What I build
Projects across four disciplines. Pick a category to explore.
Recent Activity
Rebuilt the Blues Torch logo as a proper vector identity. No drawn wordmark existed, so the logotype was reconstructed from outlined type and shipped as layered SVG and EPS in four colour variants — each pack carrying JPEG previews, because Explorer and Finder render vector files as blank icons and recipients had no way to tell one download from another.
Turned the research into a four-phase retention plan and shipped R1 the same night: the brief now detects quiet stretches and re-onboards gently - shorter, warmer, no backlog dump.
Wrote VISION.md - HQ as the explorer of every capture surface - and ran a 105-agent research pass on why personal systems survive or die, independently source-audited and fabrication-checked.
Phase B shipped: a nightly n8n sweep copies OpenBrain thoughts into the captures rail with database-level dedup, and a one-pass idempotent backfill landed all 331 historical thoughts.
The Today view gained item creation with an engagement picker that can mint new engagements and categories on the fly, kept sync-safe by a dashboard-born origin rule.
Where This Is Heading
What's Cooking
Several things at once, as usual:
- AI systems and automation that take repetitive work off people's plates
- Websites and web apps that ship and do what they're supposed to
- Building out entertainment spaces with live sound and light systems
- There have been a bunch of tools that started as a personal experiment and ended up solving a real problem for a real client
- I've been playing in a brand-new space for me — ARGs — Stay tuned for more
On the surface, those don't have much in common. But the same instincts that make a live show run smoothly are the ones that make a software system hold together under pressure. The people I work with get the benefit of all of it, and it's a whole lot of fun.
The Endgame
Same pattern as always, just covering more ground.
Decades across sales training, military service, and enterprise technology will do that. The focus has shifted hard into AI development over the last couple of years, and it's been a hell of a ride so far.
People come back to work with me and bring friends because something got solved, something shipped, and they've got more problems worth solving.
The work itself:
- AI and automation has moved past experimentation — it's running for real clients, on real deadlines, giving people huge amounts of time back in their week
- The sound and lighting work is still a blast — years on stage before I ever stood behind a board means the people performing get someone who knows what it feels like from both sides
- My friends and clients who get things solved keep coming back with more challenges and bringing new friends along that often become new clients.
No master plan. But the pattern holds, the range keeps expanding, and something useful comes out the other side.