Projects
Selected work.
Ventures built and run, and the AI systems behind them.
Ventures
Businesses built and run.
- Pickle Phil ESL · 2026 · live
Pickle Phil ESL
ESL tutoring business using static site with sovereign contact-service email for weekend bookings and hosted payment links.
Astro · sovereign LLM drafting · booking + calendar · chat assistant
- HDCC (Zelda) · 2026 · live
Helderberg Dog Coaching Centre
Helderberg Dog Coaching Centre runs classes and events in South Africa. A public site handles bookings and payments, with email enquiries routed to a dedicated channel.
web + booking · payment gateway · email intake automation
- NOT a Lawyer · 2026 · in build
NOT a Lawyer
A B2C legal-information app providing plain-language answers to everyday legal questions. The system uses an in-house AI agent named LawHOD to reason over legal information, explicitly distinguishing its output from legal advice.
AI legal-information engine · B2C app
Systems & AI
The tools and infrastructure behind the work.
- Pickle Phil AI · 2025-2026 · live
Athena: an AI operating system for a one-person business group
Athena is a sovereign AI orchestrator that runs day-to-day operations of a small group of businesses on owned hardware with local models, coordinating a team of specialised agents through a single private web app where decisions are approved by the operator before outward action.
multi-agent orchestration · local/sovereign inference · human-in-the-loop approvals
- Pickle Phil AI · 2026 · live
AI business channels: a company that talks to itself
An internal multi-agent system where business units operate as chat channels. Agents handle operational work and governance, filing reports for human approval before any external event is acted on.
multi-agent channels · scheduled standups · escalation-to-counsel gate · human approval gate