I use what I build.

Why build

A lab, not a product line.

The work I do for clients is about guiding, structuring and streamlining what others build. At the same time, AI is at a stage where you only really understand it once you get your hands dirty. Not talking around it, but working through it.

That's why, in my spare time, I build tools I'd want to use myself. For my investment decisions, my cash flow, my admin, my compliance questions. Auto Archiver runs in production in my own company. Crassus delivers weekly picks to a handful of readers. Pythagoras is a free set of calculators for your daily number-crunching. And Johan runs the World Cup, live and working. Those four are online and doing their job. RegPilot and Machiavelli are at demo stage, but mature enough to show the logic.

The lessons learned flow back into my assignments. Anyone who builds AI themselves understands better what it can and can't do. That's my edge over fellow consultants who only read about it.