Usually that means local agents, robotics, developer tools, or an experiment that started with “I wonder if this would work.”
I’m currently CTO at Grably. I was also part-time CTO at XLab Robotics from December 2025 to June 2026. This site is where I keep the work I’m proud of, the ideas I’m still testing, and the essays I wrote when building was not enough.
What I keep coming back to
I care about capable systems, but I care just as much about who stays in control, whether the thing works outside a demo, and whether it is actually pleasant to use.
A few favorites
A shell interceptor and local-AI command agent that catches mistyped commands, suggests corrected terminal actions, and can operate in agent mode from the CLI.
This is the kind of tool I wanted myself: mess up a command, get a better one, and stay in the terminal.
A local macOS assistant that combines voice input, document retrieval, graph-style context, and AppleScript control.
I wanted an assistant that could use my actual computer context without sending everything somewhere else.
A native macOS operations HUD for scripts, launchd agents, Docker containers, SSH services, and remote jobs.
I got tired of checking five places to see what was running, so I put the useful state and controls in one place.
A local-first repository scanner that converts codebases into structured summaries while keeping source private.
I can get oriented in an unfamiliar repo without uploading somebody else’s private code to a service.
Notes from my head
This essay is not an instruction manual, nor a prophecy, nor a TED Talk disguised as spiritual insight. It is merely an invitation to sit for a moment inside the fog before the shape emerges from it.
Read it →How one powerful AppleScript tool + vector + graph search created the ultimate private AI assistant
Read it →- in response to [Bessemer Ventures predictions](https://www.bvp.com/atlas/the-state-of-ai-2025)
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