The workshop.
Some of these are live, some are in progress, all of them are real. Since 2022 I've been building constantly: for businesses, for my church, for my kids' league, and honestly, for the fun of it. Here's the tour, and what each build taught me.
Agents, and keeping them honest
Everyone demos agents. The real work is wiring them into the systems a business already runs on, then building the guardrails that make them trustworthy.
An AI agent workforce platform
One place to create, configure, and run AI agents on real business work. They connect the systems that never talk to each other: CRM, email, calendars, analytics, content. Approval gates and working hours keep a human in charge.
Taught meThe hard part isn't the AI. It's the handoffs: who approves, when it runs, and how you check its work.
A marketing harness for a whole team
Built at my day job: a knowledge base the AI can actually search, keyword research from real ad data, analytics and search console wired in, and content drafted in seconds with the ROI measured.
Taught meMarketing stops being guesswork when every piece has a number attached.
Guardrails that keep AI on brand
Brand systems enforced in the build itself, anti-slop rules injected into every prompt, and validators that trace every AI-written number back to a source before it publishes.
Taught meYou don't trust AI. You verify it, automatically.
A watchdog for the AI ecosystem
A small cron app that watches seven sources where Anthropic ships changes and emails me the moment something new lands.
Taught meStaying current is a system too. I automated mine.
Running a business, minus the paperwork
Field crews, dispatchers, owners. Software that gives people their hours back.
A carpet crew's whole day, in one system
Full SaaS build for a family-run carpet cleaning company: online booking, drag and drop dispatch, Stripe invoicing, Twilio texts, and automated review requests after every job.
Taught meField software has to work with zero bars and wet hands.
A native iPad system for the field
Built in Swift with CloudKit sync and offline-first storage: live-call customer lookup, a pricing engine with approvals, digital signatures, before and after photos.
Taught meOffline-first changes every design decision you make.
One system for my Little League
Volunteer shifts, a family compliance ledger, field maps, and automatic reminders. It replaces three different vendors the league juggles today.
Taught meThe best software swallows busywork whole.
A compliant photo kit for real estate agents
One phone visit becomes enhanced listing photos with the legally required edit disclosures handled automatically, built around a new California disclosure law.
Taught meRegulation reads like homework. Build it in and it becomes a moat.
Websites that hold the line
Anyone can ship a pretty page. These stay fast, honest, and on brand after launch day.
A brokerage site where the brand is law
An audit-first rebuild for a Laguna Beach brokerage: real search data, compliance checks, image treatment, and a design system enforced by a validator. The build fails if a page breaks brand.
Taught meScale is a system. One source of truth feeds every page, post, and video.
Type an address, get a listing site
A multi-tenant platform that spins up a branded single-property site per listing, routes leads back to the agent, and keeps every page inside real estate advertising rules.
Taught meA website can be a product line, not a one-off.
Production sites for local businesses
A carpet cleaning company site with real reviews mined for themes, automated accessibility tests, and bot-protected lead forms. A training studio one-pager the owner can edit himself.
Taught meSmall business sites deserve big business engineering.
A searchable home for 335 sermons
Two ministries at my church, one engine: podcast feeds and transcripts turned into structured, searchable libraries with custom audio players.
Taught meStructure beats scattered links every time.
Data that audits itself
Measure first, then improve. These builds turn judgment calls into numbers you can act on.
AI that grades auto-shop inspections
Rules plus AI score every inspection on five dimensions, with findings that cite their sources and customer data scrubbed before the model ever sees it. Pennies per audit.
Taught meTrustworthy AI shows receipts. Good engineering makes it cost pennies.
A ground-truth audit for a dental practice
Real search data, a full site crawl, review and map-pack gap analysis, delivered as a plan the owner could act on.
Taught meAn audit is only useful when every claim is checked against reality.
A maturity model for product testing
An eight-dimension framework with weakest-link scoring and an interactive assessment, built on evidence-based indicators that are hard to game.
Taught meA good model tells you where to look next, not just how you scored.
Video and voice, written like software
Multimedia used to mean agencies and render farms. Now it's code.
Video rendered from code
Pitch teasers, article reels, and a league trailer, all built with Remotion and Hyperframes. Change the data and the video re-renders on brand.
Taught meMedia can be data-driven, versioned, and always on brand.
Apps that talk and listen
ElevenLabs narration for a scripture app, pronunciation scoring with Whisper for language learning, and voice agents that hold a real conversation.
Taught meVoice makes software feel human. The tech is ready now.
A Wrapped-style year in review
Sixteen animated slides with bespoke transitions and music, fully tested, built to make a year of numbers feel like a story.
Taught meData storytelling is an animation problem.
For the love of it
I build because I can't not. These started as curiosity and turned into real things.
A batting practice app for kids, built around dinosaurs
It turns an iPhone into an exit-velocity tracker on Apple's developer kit and the on-device ML that ships with it, so young hitters see their progress the second the bat cracks.
Taught meThe phone in your pocket can do lab work now.
A year of daily readings, in an app
A pipeline that ingests all 365 episodes of my church's daily reading series into scripture, notes, and audio, with hands-free voice navigation.
Taught meA content pipeline can turn seven years of teaching into a product.
Learn biblical Greek by saying it out loud
Spaced repetition tuned by learning science, AI-generated pronunciation audio, and speech scoring that listens while you practice.
Taught meLearning science plus voice AI beats flashcards.
A samurai game, sound effects included
A browser game with procedurally generated sprites and 48 AI-generated sound effects, from footsteps to katana swings.
Taught meFun projects teach faster than serious ones.
Want something like this for your business?
Every one of these started as a conversation. Yours can too.