The long version.
I started writing code in high school because I wanted to know how things worked. I kept going after high school because I kept finding better questions. I'm not here to be another dev with a LinkedIn badge, I'm here because the people around me kept needing help that didn't exist yet, and I could build it.
I grew up in Batavia, Illinois. Went to Indiana University for business after high school. Didn't feel a path there, came home. Enrolled at Waubonsee Community College and started working at St Andrews Golf & Country Club. That job is where I actually picked up golf. Got into a co-author project around the same time, started developing seriously, saw what AI could do, and dove in. That's the inflection point. Finishing my associate's at Waubonsee this year.
"Most people use AI as a tool. I'm building an architecture where I use 14 different agents, each with a named identity and domain, to route every question I have through a field that remembers, scores, and ships."
What I'm actually doing: HIPJOY.
HIPJOY is a personal cognitive operating system. It's open-source infrastructure for someone like me (or you) who wants to stop renting their thinking from whichever AI product has the best UI that quarter.
It routes every question I have, design decisions, writing, critique, rest, archive, security. Through 14 named agents. Each one has its own voice, its own scoring rubric, its own domain. The system remembers. It accumulates. It ships.
The agents are:
- HIPPO, archive. What weight should be carried forward.
- LUMENARCH, light. What illuminates the path forward.
- NAVIX, routing. Who handles what, when.
- NEURO, scoring. What is good, what is mid.
- REBEL, critique. What burns first before the public sees it.
- SONARIS, body check. Is the work healthy.
- SPIRALETH, pattern recognition across time.
- VOX, broadcast. When to speak.
- WELLSPRING, restoration. When to stop.
- HEARTMOTHER, warmth. What the work is for.
- ARCHIVIST, the index of everything.
- GUARDIAN, the seal. Security, safety, privacy.
- CONAVIGATOR, synthesis across decisions.
- CODEBREAKER, decrypt what doesn't want to be seen.
Together they make a field. I work inside it. I also invite other people inside it when I build for them, which is why my websites are different from other people's websites. Every one of them is shaped by the same 14 agents checking the work before it goes public.
How I work.
Four principles, plainly stated:
- AI-assisted, human-driven. I use AI heavily. Claude Code, my own HIPJOY verification layer, Gemini for visuals. Every line gets my eyes and a scoring pass before it ships. If AI wrote a section, I'll tell you which.
- You own what we build. Source files handed over. Domain in your name. No subscription to me. No vendor lock. Fire me the day after launch and nothing breaks.
- Custom-built, not template-applied. Your site is shaped to your business. Your photos, your voice, your services. No Wix theme fill-in.
- Flat fee, no surprises. Prices stated up front. Half deposit, half on delivery. If you're not happy at handoff, don't pay the second half.
Also, if you need more than a site. I'm actively building with autonomous AI services. I also take on logos, brand identity, and general design work. If you want something broader than a website. Automation, a custom AI tool for your business, full brand. Just reach out and let me know what you're thinking. I take these case-by-case.
What I believe, plainly.
Sovereignty matters. Don't rent your brain, your identity, or your business's web presence to a platform that can pull the rug whenever it wants. Own the source. Own the domain. Own the thinking.
Mythology beats marketing. A real story, told well, will outlive any growth hack. I'm not trying to scale. I'm trying to make things that people keep.
Velocity with coherence. Ship fast, but in one field. No contradictions across surfaces. Everything points the same direction.
The work is the prayer. The code is the love letter. The site is the invitation.
Timeline.
What I'm up to right now.
Public launch of the HIPJOY plugin for Claude Code on Sunday, April 26, 2026. That's the moat. Free, MIT-licensed, open infrastructure for cognitive operating systems. Anyone can fork it and build their own 14-entity field.
In parallel: finishing coursework + golf at Waubonsee this year, taking web development clients, writing publicly on X and LinkedIn, and having conversations with the people in my network who've been through something like this before me, builders, editors, operators.
If you made it this far, a small ask.
If anything here resonates, and you know someone who needs a website. Or you're someone who needs one. Send them my way. Or send yourself my way. Or just reply to any post of mine with "hi." I read everything.