The receipts. Not the brochure.

Home fiber, run by hand under my own property

Trenched conduit, pulled fiber, terminated ends, and connected the outbuildings to the house network. Did it myself because the local contractor quote was four-figures of mostly labor.

What conduit depth, bend radius, and termination tolerances actually look like, versus what the spec sheets say.

Property security camera system

Installed and wired a full camera system across the property. Cabled, mounted, configured retention, set up local recording, and dialed in alert zones that don't trigger on every passing deer.

Self-hosted cloud stack

Built and operate my own staging environment, production environment, database servers, scheduled backups, and a tested disaster recovery plan. Not a third-party PaaS, actual servers I administer.

If you've never failed over to a backup under time pressure, you don't have a backup. You have a hope.

Self-hosted email server

Run my own email server end-to-end, MX, DKIM/SPF/DMARC, queue, spam filtering, and deliverability against the big providers. Every piece of mail I send is auditable from my own box.

Deliverability isn't a config problem; it's an ongoing reputation problem. Documenting what I do is half the work.

Home VPN, your traffic exits from your couch

A router-level VPN setup that tunnels all your travel traffic back to your home network, so every site you visit sees your residential IP. Banking, geofenced services, and home-only services all 'just work' from a coffee shop or hotel.

CTI pipeline + curated daily newsletter

A multi-agent pipeline I built and run myself, pulls open-source threat intel, market signals, AI news, geopolitics, and OT/SCADA events; deduplicates, tags, summarizes, and ships a daily brief. Linked to topics you care about, not a firehose.

Collab-Mentions, Obsidian plugin (open source)

A plugin I built for shared Obsidian vaults that notifies collaborators which file was just worked on. Works over Google Drive, iCloud, Dropbox, any sync layer where the vault lives on a shared drive.

Family IT, the ongoing engagement

Help my in-laws and family with router issues, Starlink quirks, social-media account recovery, email problems, and general computer management. The work that taught me how to explain technology to people who didn't grow up with it.

If your grandma can use it, your business can deploy it. If she can't, it doesn't matter how good the docs are.

Business AI workflows

Designed and deployed real AI agent workflows that replace manual work, not chatbot demos. Built for specific tasks, measured by outcome, retired when they stop being worth the spend.

SAMscout.ai

Multi-agent AI platform that writes federal contracting proposals. Built it because SDVOSBs lose contracts to bigger BD teams, not on capability. Most active product I run.

Contractor Codex

Branded client portal for service businesses, time tracking, invoicing, Stripe, client approval workflows, all white-labeled, $10/mo. Built it because the existing tools are overpriced for what they do.

VA Disability Calc & Track

iOS app for vets working through VA claims. BVA-accurate math, 900+ diagnostic codes, encrypted document vault, fully offline. Built because the VA claims process is brutal and the existing tools are terrible.