AI Builder & Evangelist

Hi. I make useful things.

Finding elegant solutions to inelegant problems for twenty years.

I build AI systems, own messy problems end to end, and help people get comfortable enough with new technology to actually use it. I’m happiest where product, engineering, communication, and a slightly unreasonable amount of curiosity overlap.

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Start small. Ship fast.Build the smallest useful thing first, then learn from reality.
Make it legible.Useful beats impressive. If people can’t understand it, they can’t use it.
Build for handoff.Good systems should be maintainable, teachable, and bigger than one heroic person.

How I work

Builder. Owner. Evangelist.

Three lanes, one operating system: understand the real problem, make the thing, and bring people with me.

Selected work

A few problems I’ve gotten attached to.

Builder

Bunch: a continuity tool I built because I needed it

I started with a deeply personal usability problem and built a practical AI-assisted system around it. The point was continuity: preserving context, reducing cognitive load, and making information available at the moment it mattered.

Bunch data model: people have pictures, hosting history, and fronting history; a return can have a catch-up with saved notes, tasks, decisions, and conversation summaries.
Bunch’s published data model. Hosting records responsibility; fronting records presence.
  • AI systems
  • Accessibility
  • Product design
  • Rapid prototyping

Owner

Owning delivery on a platform tied to $1.5B in locked loan volume

At Guaranteed Rate, I acted as product owner for a data-mining tool that generated $1.5B in locked loans. The work required turning complexity into priorities, risks, trade-offs, and a path through ambiguity.

  • Program ownership
  • Fintech
  • Delivery
  • Executive communication

Evangelist

Making AI development feel safe enough to try

At ActiveCampaign, I design hands-on AI enablement that leaves people with working artifacts. A Cursor IDE bootcamp for non-technical staff helped participants build and judge real prototypes in the room.

  • AI enablement
  • Agentic development
  • Teaching
  • Change leadership
“Text isn’t just a medium for me. It’s an instrument I’ve spent thirty years learning to play.”
Writing, editing, layout, publishing, product, and now AI.

About

A few things about me.

I’ve spent my career moving between disciplines that are usually treated as separate. That turns out to be very useful in a text-first AI world.

16+ years delivering customer-focused software solutions.AI transformation leadership, program management, agile coaching, and practical building.
Twenty years of published writing under several names.Novels, short fiction, poetry, essays, and the occasional live performance.
I care about tools that survive contact with actual humans.Accessibility, legibility, and adoption are product requirements, not garnish.

Notes

What I’m thinking about.

Build notes and essays from the public archive. Fiction and publishing live at The Arcades’ Lab.

September 9, 2026

Bunch

A build note about an MCP-first private companion for continuity, context, and usable handoffs.

August 6, 2026

The Stepladder

On discontinuity, the pace of technological change, and a different relationship with the machine.

Say hello

If you’ve got an inelegant problem, I’m interested.

I’m looking for work where AI, product thinking, communication, and practical building all belong in the same room.

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