I'll uncover your real need, then create a machine shaped to exactly how your work works. You hand it the pile, it does the job, and it shows you everything it did.
And here's the part nobody else offers: after I build it, you can change how it works, forever, just by talking to it.
Builds run $2,500–$10,000, priced on a 20-minute call — see the whole menu ↓
How it goes
A short call. You describe the thing that eats your week — in your words, not tech words. I'll tell you on the spot whether it's my kind of job and the honest ballpark, and the official proposal hits your inbox the same day.
Shaped to your real work, tested on your real cases, connected to the folders your team already uses. Days to a couple of weeks. Not months.
Hand it the pile and go do something else. Minutes later the job is finished, written up, and waiting for you — with its reasoning shown, so you can check anything.
Why mine are different
Most custom software calcifies the day the developer leaves. Mine is built to keep changing after I'm gone — without me.
Most machines I build run inside Forge — the desktop app I built and sell, where machines are made and changed by conversation instead of code. So when your work changes, you tell your machine how it changed, in plain English: a new column in the report, a different rule for one special client, a whole extra step. It makes the change, shows you the result, and you keep it or throw it back.
No change orders. No waiting on a developer. No "that'll be another quote." (And when a change is genuinely beyond talking through — some are — I'm a phone call away.)
Your machines work in plain files and folders on your own computers — including the folders your team already shares through OneDrive, Google Drive, or Dropbox. No migration. No "upload everything to our platform." The machine comes to your files, not the other way around.
And everything stays readable without me: the reports, the records, the dashboards, the machine itself. If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, you'd still have all of it, working, in folders you control. That's a design decision, not an accident.
The honest part
Here's the truth most AI pitches skip: when one of my machines does real judgment work — reading a stack of documents, reconciling numbers, chasing what's missing — it takes minutes, not seconds.
That's why every machine I build follows one rule: you never stand there waiting on it. You drop the work in and walk away. It's the same motion as handing a folder to a careful assistant — except this assistant finishes in minutes, shows every step of its reasoning, and never gets tired of the boring parts.
Software you wait on is a bad deal.
An afternoon that comes back to you is a great one.
So I'll say plainly what I don't build: instant-response software. If your problem needs an answer in half a second while a customer stands at the counter, that's a job for traditional software, and I'll tell you so in the first call — and point you somewhere else if I can.
What I build is for the work you'd delegate if you had one more good person: the pile, the chase, the reconciliation, the write-up. That turns out to be most of what eats a small office alive.
See for yourself
These are real, working, and clickable — whole offices fitted with machines that hand off to each other, running on realistic sample data. Both happen to be finance offices; the same pattern fits an awards shop, a property manager, a clinic, a nonprofit. Go in and poke around.
The quarterly fee true-up, the onboarding chase, the compliance calendar, the mystery-file drawer — and an overview machine that reads all of them. Every number checkable to the cent.
Open the office →Contracts, statements, correspondence, and paperwork — sorted, filed, summarized, and cross-checked by machines that each know their one job and hand off to each other.
Open the office →Two versions of a contract went in; 57 material changes came out, each quoted word-for-word and flagged for my side, graded against a hundred-change answer key — it even caught the trap designed to fool professional comparison software. A build this size for you: $2,500, about two days — and then the machine is yours forever, for every contract that ever crosses your desk.
Read the case study →My own shop runs on machines like these every day, in public. The two biggest systems I've ever built are free to take — full code, full documentation, MIT license. Look at how I build. Tear it apart. This is the caliber of thing I can build for you.
The system I run this whole operation from: I talk into my phone, and a room full of agents goes to work — each one on its own job, in its own lane, all in one window. The same one I use every day, not a version cut down for sharing.
See it, take it, read the code →The two machines that publish my daily journal and answer everyone who replies to it — with the answering agent locked in a room where it can't leak what it can't see. The ten-gate send door, the drills, all of it documented.
See how it works →My default posture is open source. The free shelf is the same quality of work I sell, given away for people to learn from and build on. Even my shop's daily journal and the map of my whole operation are public — specs, costs, and all. What you pay for is the thing built exactly for you, that you own. That's the trade, and it's the whole business.
Pricing
Priced by the shape of the job in a 20-minute call — you'll hear my honest estimate right there on the phone, and the official proposal lands in your inbox the same day, not three weeks later.
One machine for one chore — built on your real cases, turned around in about two days, and yours forever. Like my contract reviewer: it caught 57 material changes in a redlined contract, graded against an answer key. A machine this size lives in Forge — you steer it by talking, and it runs on the same $50 seat as the left panel. (If I ever quote you less than this, I'm giving you a break. It happens.)
One workflow, fitted. A machine — or a few working together — that takes one whole job off your desk. Example: the quarterly fee true-up — it re-checks every client bill, to the cent, before invoices go out.
A whole office, fitted. Interlocking machines across your operation, plus the overview machine that reads them all. Included: everyone in your office on Forge, the shared workspace, and a half-day with me at your table. Example: the advisory office — nine machines, working as a set.
To run: $50 a month per seat — AI compute cost (the gas), the running of your machines, and the rest of Forge with it: dozens of pre-built machines to grab off the shelf, plus your people can build brand-new ones on the fly, just by asking.
A Press-Room-sized system. My Press Room is the pair of machines that writes my shop's public daily journal and answers every reply to it, safely, on its own. This buys a standalone system of that scale — built for your job, not a copy of mine.
A Microphone-sized system. My Microphone is the phone-first rig I run this entire shop from — a whole room of agents, each in its own lane, in one window. This buys a system that ambitious, shaped to your operation.
Runs on your computers and your accounts — no seat, no fee back to me, a care plan only if you want one. And to be clear: you're not buying the Press Room or the Microphone — those are free to take on the shelf. They're here to show the size of what $5,000 and $10,000 build, and so you can judge my work before you spend a dollar.
The fine print: machines that live in Forge run on that $50 seat, and it's the right size for about nine users in ten — a heavy user or team just needs more gas, and you'll see that coming on the built-in gas gauge, never as a surprise bill. And if you ever stop paying, every file, report, and dashboard stays on your computers, still opens, still readable. You lose the worker, never the work. Standalone systems don't even have a seat: once they're yours, they're just yours.
Some offices I've already built once — and the second time is fast. If your business matches one of my ready-made suites, you can walk through it working today, and I fit it to your company instead of starting from zero. The price doesn't change — the speed does: you're up and running in a few days. More suites are coming; if yours isn't built yet, that's what the call is for.
Suites already built: Wealth Management (Family Office) | Advisory Firm (RIA)
Some jobs are just plain bigger than this menu. A customer portal. A full backend. A website your whole organization lives on. Those aren't one-man jobs, and I don't pretend they are: at $25,000 and up, I bring in Rogue Agents, the small studio I run with two partners. It starts the same way everything here does. We talk for free, you get a plan you own no matter what, and the build gets priced from the plan instead of guessed at.
Is this you?
Not sure which side your problem lands on? That's fine — most people aren't. That's what the 20-minute call is for, and "this isn't my kind of job, here's who to ask instead" is an answer I give happily and often.
And if it's your whole business that needs the work: the opportunity map, the training, the full fit-out — that's the eight-day AI enablement & integration engagement, its own offering with its own page.
Tell me about it. Twenty minutes, no pitch, no pressure, and you'll leave with a straight answer: what I'd build, what it would cost, or why you don't need me at all.
Rather type than talk? Write it in the ask box and I'll answer for real.
Want the bigger engagement instead? I also do a full eight-day AI enablement of your business — opportunity map, working tools, training, everything handed over. And Forge — the system my builds run on — is free to look under the hood, though it's closed to new customers while the shop's on client work.
The eight-day engagement → Meet Forge →Run an agency or a creative firm? I also work as your extra hands: white-label builds under your banner, your client stays yours, quotes same day, and never a salary on your books.
Extra hands for agencies →