The workshop.

getting-whole-company

Got our CEO using AI first, then worked with our People team on the rollout: training, real use cases, internal hackathons, and a new goal system used in performance reviews. I sit on the AI council that runs training and quality reviews.

> taught me: The tools are the easy part. New habits are the real work.

agent-platform-person

A prototype that lets employees on any team build their own agents. It connects to company systems through 11 connectors (called MCP servers), keeps reading and editing the CRM on separate keys, has a wizard so non-engineers can build skills, and locks each person's data down in the database. I wrote the strategy for our CEO and CTO.

> taught me: The model proposes, code enforces, a person approves.

hubspot-skill-leaders

Sales leaders and reps pull CRM data through Claude and ChatGPT in plain language. The skill carries a glossary of how our HubSpot fields connect, so an answer never counts a closed-lost deal as a churned customer.

> taught me: An agent is only as good as the definitions you give it.

sales-intelligence-from

Reads discovery call transcripts to learn how buyers heard about us and what they already knew. Sales gets weekly findings, lookalike prospects and outreach lists. A public version turns calls into account timelines and coaching reports, and checks every quote against the transcript.

> taught me: Reps trust AI output when they can check it against the source.

rules-content-agents

Every draft is scored against a 100-point rubric with 12 automatic fails, inside a 15-stage workflow the AI can't skip ahead in, and a person approves before anything goes out.

> taught me: Checks belong in code, where nobody can talk them out of it.

every-page-audited

Audited all 1,084 URLs on centercode.com and scripted the fixes through the Webflow API: new or trimmed titles and meta descriptions on 440+ posts, 77 new internal links, a comparisons hub and glossary cleanup. Each batch is tracked against a baseline snapshot in GA4 and Search Console.

> taught me: Write down the baseline before you change anything, or you'll never know what worked.

guardrails-keep-ai

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 me: You don't trust AI. You verify it, automatically.

watchdog-ai-ecosystem

A small cron app that watches seven sources where Anthropic ships changes and emails me the moment something new lands.

> taught me: Staying current is a system too. I automated mine.

field-crews-whole

Running a home-services company today: online booking, drag and drop dispatch, signed agreements, Stripe invoicing, Twilio texts, automated review requests after every job, and a native technician app in TestFlight. Automatic checks every night, and a weekly test that quality never slips backward, keep it honest.

> taught me: Field software has to work with zero bars and wet hands. And a test must never touch a real customer's job.

native-ipad-system

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 me: Offline-first changes every design decision you make.

one-system-little

Volunteer shifts, a family compliance ledger, field maps, and automatic reminders. It replaces three different vendors the league juggles today.

> taught me: The best software swallows busywork whole.

compliant-photo-kit

One phone visit becomes enhanced listing photos with the legally required edit disclosures handled automatically, built around a new California disclosure law.

> taught me: Regulation reads like homework. Build it in and it becomes a moat.

brokerage-site-where

An audit-first rebuild for a Southern California 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 me: Scale is a system. One source of truth feeds every page, post, and video.

type-address-get

One 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 me: A website can be a product line, not a one-off.

production-sites-local

A home-services 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 me: Small business sites deserve big business engineering.

searchable-home-335

Two ministries at my church, one engine: podcast feeds and transcripts turned into structured, searchable libraries with custom audio players.

> taught me: Structure beats scattered links every time.

ai-grades-auto-shop

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 me: Trustworthy AI shows receipts. Good engineering makes it cost pennies.

ground-truth-audit-dental

Real search data, a full site crawl, review and map-pack gap analysis, delivered as a plan the owner could act on.

> taught me: An audit is only useful when every claim is checked against reality.

maturity-model-product

An eight-dimension framework with weakest-link scoring and an interactive assessment, built on evidence-based indicators that are hard to game.

> taught me: A good model tells you where to look next, not just how you scored.

video-rendered-from

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 me: Media can be data-driven, versioned, and always on brand.

apps-talk-listen

ElevenLabs narration for a scripture app, pronunciation scoring with Whisper for language learning, and voice agents that hold a real conversation.

> taught me: Voice makes software feel human. The tech is ready now.

wrapped-style-year-review

Sixteen animated slides with bespoke transitions and music, fully tested, built to make a year of numbers feel like a story.

> taught me: Data storytelling is an animation problem.

batting-practice-app

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 me: The phone in your pocket can do lab work now.

year-daily-readings

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 me: A content pipeline can turn seven years of teaching into a product.

learn-biblical-greek

Spaced repetition tuned by learning science, AI-generated pronunciation audio, and speech scoring that listens while you practice.

> taught me: Learning science plus voice AI beats flashcards.

samurai-game-sound

A browser game with procedurally generated sprites and 48 AI-generated sound effects, from footsteps to katana swings.

> taught me: Fun projects teach faster than serious ones.