Work
For two decades, I have built open source projects, service businesses, research systems, and agent-native companies around one recurring question: how can small teams use software to do work that used to require large organizations? The current edge is an adaptive runtime, governed company context, and a web agents can understand.
Current focus
The active edge of the thesis
Build snapshot · July 2026: Punk and Pantasso are in sustained production hardening, with more than 1,200 repository changes across the two projects in the past month. The broader contribution curve is now nearly vertical.
Punk
Proof-first adaptive runtime
An adaptive runtime for production AI agents that learns from repeated work, proves cheaper paths, and keeps the live model as fallback.
Proof-first adaptive runtime for production AI agents. Learns from repeated work, verifies cheaper execution paths, governs risky actions, and explains every route decision.
Pantasso
Governed company context
Governed company context for AI-native teams: cited answers, honest gaps, SQL-accessible records, and scoped access for assistants.
Agent-first company data platform for AI-native teams. Turns approved chats, documents, files, and business systems into governed context, cited answers, and scoped agent access.
Plasmate
Open source browser infrastructure
A browser and semantic format for the web consumer that does not have eyes.
Agent-native headless browser engine. HTML in, Semantic Object Model out. 10x token compression, Apache-2.0.
Till
Agent access control
Activation-limited credentials for letting agents act without handing them permanent keys.
Activation-limited API key proxy. Give AI agents exactly the access they need - keys that work till they don't.
Looper
Continuous improvement
The retention-layer idea made operational: scheduled loops that improve systems over time.
Continuous improvement as a service. Point an AI at anything, set a schedule, and it improves the thing every night.
CrowdProof
Simulation as research
A social laboratory for watching many agents react, debate, and expose weak ideas quickly.
Live social simulation platform. Submit a stimulus, watch hundreds of AI agents react across simulated platforms in real time.
The map
Organized by the question each project answers
The work looks disparate when sorted by industry. It becomes coherent when sorted by the problem being tested: infrastructure, service delivery, solo leverage, agent operation, open source distribution, and lessons from prior waves.
Runtime, context, format, access, memory
Agent infrastructure and data
Systems for agents that must learn, understand company context, read the web, remember, pay, and act with evidence and control.
Punk
Proof-first adaptive runtime for production AI agents. Learns from repeated work, verifies cheaper execution paths, governs risky actions, and explains every route decision.
Pantasso
Agent-first company data platform for AI-native teams. Turns approved chats, documents, files, and business systems into governed context, cited answers, and scoped agent access.
Plasmate
Agent-native headless browser engine. HTML in, Semantic Object Model out. 10x token compression, Apache-2.0.
Till
Activation-limited API key proxy. Give AI agents exactly the access they need - keys that work till they don't.
BluePages
The x402 protocol skills directory. Pay-per-call agent capabilities with cryptocurrency micropayments.
XFiltered
Semantic social signal automation for teams. Finds posts on X that match a described need, extracts the useful details, and routes them into existing workflows.
SaveState
Time Machine for AI agents. Encrypted backup and restore for agent workspaces, memory, and state.
MeshGuard
AI governance and policy enforcement for autonomous agents. Runtime guardrails, audit logging, and compliance.
OpenClaw
Open source AI agent runtime. Connect AI to your life through any messaging channel.
Outcome delivery instead of seats
Service-as-software businesses
Companies built around AI workers that perform business functions directly, with humans supervising edge cases instead of operating dashboards.
Reeve
AI operating platform for local service businesses. Replaces the dispatcher, back-office coordinator, and billing admin with a single AI agent.
Hitch
Your AI marketing employee. Automated outreach, lead generation, and content for small businesses.
We Post
Premium social posting service for local businesses. Collect phone photos, build brand memory, publish consistent posts.
With Agency
Marketing agency focused on creating strategies that combine human creativity with computational precision.
SalesAide
AI-powered sales enhancement tool that captures conversation details and improves customer relationships.
Teacher's Aide
AI-powered grading tool that helps educators grade assignments with rubric feedback directly in Google Docs.
Leverage for owner-led operations
Single-human company systems
Operating layers for small teams and solo operators: persistent work queues, continuous improvement, delegated execution, and approval-ready outputs.
Pantasso
Agent-first company data platform for AI-native teams. Turns approved chats, documents, files, and business systems into governed context, cited answers, and scoped agent access.
Loop Desk
Always-on business workspace for owner-led teams. Persistent work queue, durable memory, and approval-ready outputs.
Looper
Continuous improvement as a service. Point an AI at anything, set a schedule, and it improves the thing every night.
Agent Console
Command center for orchestrating AI sub-agents across ventures.
Posthaste
Smart email management tool that provides intelligent summaries to your favorite messaging platforms.
Reeve
AI operating platform for local service businesses. Replaces the dispatcher, back-office coordinator, and billing admin with a single AI agent.
Hitch
Your AI marketing employee. Automated outreach, lead generation, and content for small businesses.
Markets, media, commerce, simulation
Agent-run experiments
Experiments that test how far agents can operate creative, financial, research, and commercial workflows with minimal human intervention.
CrowdProof
Live social simulation platform. Submit a stimulus, watch hundreds of AI agents react across simulated platforms in real time.
Custom Canvas Curators
Fully AI agent created and run Etsy store selling original, generative wall artwork.
Zuice
The God of Lightning Listings. A fully automated Etsy listing agent group and social media marketing team, advertising, branding, and community building platform.
Patterns 4 Printing
Custom digital pattern design for crafters and DIY enthusiasts.
StockCroc
Automated algorithmic trading, implementing large language model and statistical regression models along with modern algorithmic trends for unique, real-time signal generation and trade execution.
Ticker Tape Trading
Autonomous trading desk. AI-driven signal analysis, risk controls, and supervised trade execution via Alpaca.
Adoption before extraction
Open source and community
The throughline from Joomla and Mautic to Plasmate: build infrastructure people can inspect, adopt, extend, and trust before commercial layers appear.
Mautic
Open source marketing automation. Free marketing for your business.
Plasmate
Agent-native headless browser engine. HTML in, Semantic Object Model out. 10x token compression, Apache-2.0.
OpenClaw
Open source AI agent runtime. Connect AI to your life through any messaging channel.
CRMery
CRM for the SMB focused on the Joomla! ecosystem.
Saelos
API driven Customer Relationship Management software. Serverless and headless
Acquired, paused, killed, learned
Archive of lessons
Not every build remains a current company. The archive shows the lessons, false starts, and prior waves that shaped the current thesis.
Mautic
Open source marketing automation. Free marketing for your business.
WebSpark
Web, app, mobile and blockchain development services.
CRMery
CRM for the SMB focused on the Joomla! ecosystem.
TechVets
Tech device repair and onsite network services.
After
Protects and preserves assets immutably, transparently, and autonomously on the blockchain.
Candor
Providing safety and security for your blockchain activity and addresses.
Eras
A lifetime of work, not a pile of projects
Each era sharpened the same instinct: find a consumer class that existing infrastructure underserves, then build the missing layer that gives smaller teams more leverage.
2011-2015
Open source and small-business leverage
The earliest pattern was making expensive business capability available to smaller organizations: CRM, marketing automation, services, and community-led software.
2016-2022
Headless systems, ownership, and web3 experiments
The work moved toward APIs, ownership, programmable finance, identity, and markets. Many of these were experiments, but they built the muscle for autonomous systems.
2023-2025
AI-native services and operating experiments
The focus shifted from software people use to agents that do the work: sales, education, commerce, social media, trading, and customer operations.
2025-2026
The operating stack for AI agents
The current arc connects an adaptive runtime, governed company context, and an agent-readable web with the systems that let agents act and improve safely.
Full index
The complete record
Some are companies. Some are proofs. Some are archived lessons. The index is kept complete because the body of work matters more than a polished highlight reel.
Agatha's
pausedBoutique fine art gallery for NFTs
Loded
pausedLeasable Ethereum hashrate for those looking to invest in crypto mining without the high overhead expense of machine acquisition.
Pocket Pandas
archivedAdorable onchain panda tamagotchi with special traits
Saelos
archivedAPI driven Customer Relationship Management software. Serverless and headless