Selected work · 2024–2026

Six projects that answer one question.

Can this person ship the thing I need — and should I trust them with it? Each case below is real stakes, end-to-end range, and an outcome a business owner can see themselves in.

Skilled Trades · Hero case

From trade expert to bookable business

Safety Todd knows trees. He didn't know digital. A public site plus an internal arborist-management tool turned a field operation into a business with a waitlist.

  • arborist-consulting-services
  • arbor-mate
The story

Field op → pipeline

A skilled tradesman with no digital front door. I built the customer-facing site and the operations tool behind it, so new work comes in and the team can actually run it.

Showcases

Website + ops, paired

Website craft, vertical empathy, and the rare move of shipping the customer-facing and internal tools together — the exact shape of my target engagement.

Artifacts

Proof to share

Before/after of the site, performance numbers, a 90-second walkthrough of Arbor-Mate, and a short client-outcome story.

Staff ambassador dashboard UI — client data masked
Hospitality · Enterprise · Credibility case

Enterprise hospitality, design-engineered

A multi-month engagement across strategy, brand research, design audit, AI roadmap, and shipping a staff-facing ambassador dashboard. Proof I operate at enterprise altitude, not just local trades.

  • super-ambassador
  • ofs-rebrand
  • er-ai-strategy
  • staff-app-ux
The story

Research → shipped UI

From brand-identity research and design review through an AI strategy roadmap to a working ambassador dashboard for Exclusive Resorts & OneFineStay.

Showcases

Strategic depth

Research-to-production pipeline, design-system thinking, and AI-strategy authorship — it silences "are you just a freelancer?"

Artifacts

Sanitized & masked

Pitch-deck excerpts, process diagrams, and dashboard screenshots with client-sensitive data masked.

Spafford 2024 website hero artwork
Live Music · Proof-of-range case

Art Director for a touring band — web, merch, brand, and the tools behind the tour

A multi-year run as Spafford's Art Director: their public web presence, merch and brand systems, marketing direction, and a full live-event management platform plus the tools to run the operation.

  • spafford-public-site
  • LiveMate
  • GigMate
  • music-marketplace-mate
The story

Brand → web → ops

Led the creative program and wrote the code behind it — brand, merch, and a Supabase + Next/TS platform that ran real tours for real users.

Showcases

Direction + execution

End-to-end creative direction and full-stack product execution under one roof, iterated v1 → v2 against live use.

Artifacts

The whole program

Merch and brand-system gallery, the live site, a LiveMate product tour, an architecture diagram, and an "art director who ships code" write-up.

LiveMate — the live-event platform behind the Spafford tour
LiveMate — the live-event management platform behind the tour · Supabase + Next/TS

Album art

Spafford — Flight of Fall cover Spafford — For Amusement Only cover Spafford — Abaculus cover Spafford — self-titled cover Spafford — Live Vol. 5 cover Spafford — Sugarshack EP cover Spafford — Gaff Tapes cover

Merch & apparel

Spafford summer 2024 tour shirt Spafford Watchful Eye tie-dye Spafford electric taco hoodie Spafford lighthouse shirt Spafford thundershout tie-dye Spafford Hindsight foil print Spafford frog 2024 shirt Spafford mouth shirt
Design Systems · Craft benchmark

From brand strategy doc to a design system that runs

Most agencies hand over a 40-page brand book and walk away. I generate the actual tokens, theme, and touchpoints — so the brand runs on every surface instead of sitting in a PDF.

  • brand-system-generator
  • Branded-Touchpoints
  • UI-Wizard
The story

Book → running system

Close the gap between brand strategy and shipped product: input a brand doc, output the tokens, theme, and components that make it real.

Showcases

Design-engineer, pure

Taste plus tooling plus design-systems fluency — the work the sophisticated buyers judge you on.

Artifacts

Input → output

Side-by-side of brand doc → generated system, a demo GIF, and a short essay on why that gap matters.

AI Workflows · The "AI engineer" case

AI agents that actually do the work

Three real agent systems — a design-agency-in-a-box, a writing assistant, and an OSINT tool for licensed PIs. Concrete, named playbooks, not vibes — the proof behind the second half of my title.

  • ultimate-design-agency
  • scribe-mate
  • pi-mate
  • prompt-wizard
The story

Architected, not prompted

I design the orchestration — when to build an agent vs. automate a workflow — and ship it to a real vertical with a real job to do.

Showcases

Non-obvious use cases

Agent systems shipped to verticals most builders never touch, picked for impact rather than demo-appeal.

Artifacts

Show, don't tell

60–90 second demos of each agent handling a real task, an orchestration diagram, and a build-vs-automate write-up.

Developer Tools · Lead-gen case

The unsexy automation that pays for itself

Productized tooling for accessibility, performance, and compliance auditing — the kind of thing a business doesn't know it needs until you show them their score. A free audit is a conversion machine.

  • website-compliance-checker
  • site-audits
  • clip-mark-down
The story

Built to reduce rework

I think like an operator: tooling that catches accessibility, performance, and compliance gaps before they cost anyone.

Showcases

Operator mindset

Builds that save time rather than just look cool — and double as a no-friction way to open a conversation.

Artifacts

Try it live

One real anonymized audit report and a "run a free audit" entry point powered by the tool itself.

The Lab

More work,
less narration.

Small, sharp tools I ship to stay fluent — and the stack I reuse so client projects don't start at zero. Range in volume.

Mate Apps

Productized utilities

cooking-mate · invoice-mate · profit-mate · project-mate · trip-mate · pocket-mate

macOS Native

Cross-platform

launch-pad · weather-mate-macOS · html-wizard-desktop · ux-message-mate

Starters

My stack, open

stripe-supabase-saas-starter · vitejs-glassy-starter · vue-modern-website

Design Tools

What designers wish existed

ds-theme-mate · chakra-ui-theme-builder · skeuomorphic-dimension

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