AI receptionists and lead follow up
Missed call text back, appointment booking, and instant lead response for service businesses, so inquiries at 9 PM become customers instead of voicemails.
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I design, build, and operate AI systems for businesses that want to own their stack: open models on dedicated hardware, your data in your building, no per token cloud bill. This site runs on one.
01 / Why Private
Not a thin wrapper around someone else's API. A complete platform: models, gateway, auth, billing, and monitoring, running on hardware you can physically point at.
Cloud API calls made by this platform: 0
02 / The Platform
Most "AI consultants" resell someone else's API. I built the whole thing. When I build for you, I know every layer because I've operated every layer.
fig. 01 · request path, edge to silicon · live simulation
The Qwen 3.8 family (Flash Next at 100 GB+, the 27B, and an uncensored 27B), Llama 3.1 70B, and DeepSeek R1 on Apple Silicon, plus embeddings for search. Multi token prediction keeps responses fast.
A unified API in front of every model. Anything built for OpenAI works against private infrastructure with one URL change.
Email code login, per user token tracking, and live usage dashboards backed by a production database.
Plan based token limits, webhooks, and automated provisioning: the full path from checkout to working API key.
Zero open ports to the public internet, locked down CORS, security headers, secrets out of source.
Every component runs as a managed service that survives reboots and restarts itself. Built to run unattended.
03 / What I Build
From the first missed call to a full product: these are the systems I build and operate for businesses.
Missed call text back, appointment booking, and instant lead response for service businesses, so inquiries at 9 PM become customers instead of voicemails.
Internal chat and document assistants running on dedicated hardware, for businesses that want AI without sending customer data to a third party cloud.
Connecting AI to the tools you already use: CRMs, calendars, payment systems, email. Webhooks and APIs that just work.
Auth, billing, dashboards, and deployment: the same production stack this platform runs on, built for your idea.
04 / About the Builder
I learn by building, and I run what I build: this platform, a home media server, and a personal AI agent that studies every night. I've shipped an app to the App Store, I'm finishing a picture book app for kids, and I build premium websites for local businesses. I'm not a classically trained engineer, and that's the point: I build with modern AI tools the way your business will actually use them.
Open weight language models served privately on Apple Silicon, with no cloud bill.
Script to scheduled post with no hands on the timeline in between.
A self hosted media and photo server, a whole home ad blocker, and secure remote access, all keeping itself running.
Native apps with in app purchases, taken all the way through App Store review.
Premium custom websites for local businesses, designed, built, and deployed by hand, like this one.
04 / Selected Work
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A perimenopause and HRT tracker that shows whether a treatment change is actually working.
Good morning. Night study finished: skills sharpened, notes filed in the vault.
What's on my calendar today?
My personal AI agent on Telegram. It runs on my own Mac, studies every night, and sharpens its own skills.
Large open models served from one Mac: a 100 GB+ model with multi token prediction, plus embeddings for search. It powers Jarvis and my bigger builds.


Native iOS picture books for ages 2 to 4, read aloud by a puppy narrator.
A 7 TB NAS that runs my home: self hosted Jellyfin and photo backup, a whole home ad blocker, secure remote access, and a watchdog that keeps it all running.
05 / Live Demo
A demo for a business like a day spa: the AI receptionist answers a missed call by text and books the visit. Then the same phone runs a private assistant answering from local files. No human touches either one.
Demo conversation · business and names are illustrative
fig. 02 · missed call text back, as the customer sees it
06 / Work With Me
If you want slideware, hire a consultancy. If you want a working system from someone who runs his own, tell me what you're trying to automate or build. I'll reply with an honest read on whether it's worth doing, and a fixed price if it is.
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