Selected work
Three tiers: flagship systems — problems taken from idea to production; self-funded products running in the wild; and R&D, where ideas earn the right to become either.
Flagship systems
idea to production, in production todayOpen Cradle
Regulated firms — law, clinics, family offices — need AI on client documents, but professional secrecy rules out any cloud API. Cradle runs agents, retrieval, and two-layer risk triage entirely on the client's hardware.
ResultEvery answer cites its source chunk; deterministic rules decide, models explain; an operator approves anything above the green threshold. The audit trail writes itself.
node-llama-cpp · sqlite-vec · Electron · open-weight modelsSingle Window — permit workflows
AI Team Lead at Kyrgyz Single Window, leading AI work for systems used by foreign-trade participants and the agencies that issue their permits. One conversation about a task eating hours of officers' weeks became ai.trade.kg — a deployed assistant, not a transformation program.
ResultState data on state infrastructure. Listening to one problem produced one working tool.
state infrastructure · on-premise inferenceCradle SmartNotes
A voice-first thought-capture layer: local speech-to-text, wake-word screenshots, on-device grouping. The sovereignty constraint applied to the most private dataset there is — one person's working memory.
ResultNothing recorded ever touches a server that isn't yours.
whisper.cpp · node-vosk · ElectronProducts in the wild
live, self-fundedVideaMind
Interactive video and mind-mapping for complex topics — branching flows, transcripts, AI-assisted navigation. Built for onboarding and teaching, used daily for my own learning.
Next.js · React · TypeScript2025 · liveUptimeHarbor
Lightweight uptime and cron monitoring so small projects don't silently break in the background. Boring on purpose — reliability tooling should be.
Next.js · Node.js · PostgreSQLR&D / Experiments
question → experiment → resultWhere ideas get tested cheaply. Some graduate into products, most teach one lesson and retire. Kept here honestly, not dressed up as more than they are.
MENACE
The matchbox tic-tac-toe machine, implemented. A reward function you can watch learn — beads and all.
2026 · in developmentSilo: DeepWell
A colony-sim experiment in Godot. Devlogs in the blog — including the one where the first version died in six days.
2024 · liveRePeaks
Second-hand marketplace for mountaineering gear. Lowering the entry barrier to the mountains.