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I build AI systems that do real work inside a business — connected to the tools you already use, tested so you know what they'll do before a customer does, and honest about what they're doing while they do it. Fifteen years shipping production software, most recently hal0: a private AI platform I designed, built and still run on my own hardware, taken from first beta to stable release.
Case Studies_
hal0 — a home AI platform I designed, built and operate solo — is the flagship. The rest is what got it there.
VIEW ALL WORK →Open-source AI platform for your own hardware. Chat, search, images and more from one system — no per-request bill. Solo-built v0.9.0 to v1.0.0.
Landing page and early-access funnel for single-purpose AI agents — nothing to compile, no third-party service that can take the page down.
A live, step-by-step view of an AI agent at work, with every session saved so a bad run can be replayed and debugged.
Keeps a design file and a live website in sync automatically — a color or spacing mismatch is caught before it ships, not after.
Twenty-two custom WordPress building blocks give editors freedom on a page without a plugin that lets the design drift.
Writing_
Field notes from building and running hal0 — what worked, what broke, and what I'd do differently, on the way to its first stable release.
How hal0 plans, builds and pins its runner container images across three repos, and how to swap the one a slot uses without rebuilding anything.
Tell me what you're building._
Hiring for an AI engineering role, or need help integrating AI, running it on infrastructure you control, or designing the product around it? Tell me what you're building and I'll tell you the shortest honest path.