What disgusting visuals.
You probably thought that.

And you are correct - the budget went into the parts that run. Below: AI systems, data pipelines, and live applications. All of them work. None of them are demos.

Projects
I paid three AI companies to split documents. A 50-line script beat them all.
Case Study · Chunking · Cost vs Hype
A real project, a real bill, and a question worth $6: when you're told to use LangChain, LlamaIndex, AWS Lambda and frontier AI models - do you actually need them? I ran the same document-splitting task through all of it, measured everything, and wrote down what the buzzwords cost and what they returned. Spoiler: the winner was written in an afternoon and runs for free.
The Tower of Earnest Folly
Game · Interactive Novel
Featuring more twists than an M. Night Shyamalan movie, this intricate adventure will make you question your life choices and the meaning behind them. Ascend. Be judged. Receive your certificate. If you dare.
Payment Ops: Three AI Agents
3 Use Cases · 1 Working Agent
...walk into a bar, but there's no one there. A payment processing company asked for three AI use cases as a technical exercise after the first interview round. I delivered all three; the silence afterward counted as an answer on its own. Their loss - the architecture docs and the working n8n agent are here instead, free.
Story Writer
AI · Generation
Did you ever want to read the story about Legolas fighting 20 orcs in a cave? What about Carrie Bradshaw falling in love with a vampire who is afraid of commitment? Then how about Legolas falling in love with a vampire who is afraid of commitment after fighting 20 orcs in a cave? Don't worry, I got you: multi-agent pipeline, continuity tracking, runs unattended.
The Conservatory
AI · Data
Classic gossip subreddit. Transformed into a classical music world. The drama survived the transformation.
Stars
AI · Horoscope
AI-generated horoscope, unique to you, spoken in the soft words of a Python oracle. Peer into the future or look into the past - the stars are a PostgreSQL database.
Markets
Live Data · WebSocket
Live Polymarket data. WebSocket streams. The crowd's probability vs actual price, updated every 5 seconds. Pretty much useless - but so is that "premium Polymarket script that copies top traders," and mine won't steal your crypto.
Forum Network
Data · Visualization
71 photographers argued about cameras for years. I scraped every argument - thousands of posts - mapped who talks to who, and turned it into a force graph. Also, I like bubbles and lines in different colors.
Flip7
Game · Multiplayer
Quick multiplayer game, odds based - let friends join or play with bots. I went to game night and the organizer said the house rules they play by are based on what the game creator whispered into her ear at a game convention. So I made the game with both rule sets available.

About
I build and ship AI solutions - any stack that matches what is needed. Fifteen years of backend and QA on systems where failure kills the product: payments, healthcare, e-commerce. That's why the things above run unattended instead of living in a slide deck.

Unsure what to build or what's even possible? Book a consultation and I'll tell you. Or go buy a 5-star, 100% completion, 3 total jobs done, Upwork Master AI Crafter solution and get nothing. Your choice.