Est. 2024Tuesday, March 17, 2026Edition No. 115
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What I've Built, How I Work, and What I Charge

Case files, services, and a few opinions.

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Case Files
What I built, how I built it, and what I learned
CASE FILE IV

A Notes App That Actually Thinks

10 AI features

Every notes app stores text. None of them help you do anything with it — no connections between ideas, no surfacing what matters, no turning notes into action.

CASE FILE V

From Quote Request to Inbox in 30 Minutes

60% faster quotes

A NYC service business was losing jobs to competitors who responded faster. Quote requests sat in Gmail for hours, pricing lived in spreadsheets, and every response was written from scratch.

CASE FILE VI

From Zero to Deployed — No Coding Background Required

37 interactive slides

People keep hearing "just vibe code it" but nobody actually explains how to set up the tools, save your work, or put something on the internet.

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Services
How we can work together
Services
Service I.AI Product Consulting

Figure out where AI belongs — and where it doesn't

1–2 weeks

Most AI features fail because they solve the wrong problem. I look at what your team actually does all day, find the parts where AI would cut real time, and tell you what to build first.

Includes:
  • I look at your product and tell you where AI actually helps
  • I figure out if it’s buildable and how long it’ll take
  • I tell you what to build vs. what to buy off the shelf
  • You get a plan for what to build first
Service II.Build PartnershipMost Popular

I join your team and we build the thing together

2–4 weeks

I sit with your engineers, we figure out what to build, and I help ship it. When it’s done, I make sure your team knows how everything works so you’re not dependent on me.

Includes:
  • We design the feature and decide how to build it
  • I write production code, not a prototype
  • I work directly with your engineers
  • When I leave, your team knows how everything works
Service III.Advisor Mode

I’m the person you Slack when you get stuck

Monthly retainer

Your team can build but keeps getting stuck on AI-specific decisions. I'm the person you Slack when something isn't working.

Includes:
  • Weekly strategy calls
  • Async Slack/email access
  • Architecture and code review
  • Team coaching and unblocking
How I Work
Week 1

Identify

Audit your product, find where AI fits

Week 2

Design

Architecture, feasibility, build plan

Week 3–4

Build & Ship

Production-ready code with your team

The Desk Ledger
Primary stackNext.js + Supabase
AI modelsClaude, Gemini, OpenAI
Avg. build time2 weeks
Currently acceptingQ2 2026
Field Notes
Things I keep telling clients
If users notice the AI, you've probably over-engineered it.
Observation 01

Stop Letting Engineers Decide Where AI Goes

Product instinct beats technical demos.

Engineers optimize for what's possible. Product people optimize for what matters. The best AI features come from product instinct, not technical demos.

Observation 02

Your 'AI Strategy' Is Probably a Chatbot

The real wins are in the boring stuff.

Most companies think AI strategy means 'add a chatbot.' The real wins are in the boring stuff: automating internal workflows, reducing decision latency, and eliminating the copy-paste jobs nobody wants to do.

Observation 03

Most AI Products Are Features

Build defensibility beyond the model.

If your entire value prop is 'we use AI to do X,' you're one API update away from irrelevance. The moat isn't the AI — it's the workflow, the data, or the distribution.

Observation 04

Vibe Coding Changes Who Gets to Build

The tools caught up to the ambition.

Non-technical people can now build production apps with AI. That's not hype — I've watched it happen. The ones who succeed aren't the most technical. They're the ones who understand the problem best.

Have a project in mind?

I'm currently accepting engagements for Q2 2026. Or learn to build it yourself.