01 / Custom websites
Sites that aren't another template.
Hand-built marketing sites, portfolios, and landing pages with the design care of a studio and the build discipline of an engineer. Fast. Measured. Yours.
Custom websites, scrappy MVPs, and AI-wired workflows — shipped by one curious engineer with a soft spot for taking things apart to see how they tick.
Hand-built marketing sites, portfolios, and landing pages with the design care of a studio and the build discipline of an engineer. Fast. Measured. Yours.
You have an idea and some runway. I build the first real version — auth, database, payments, the whole spine — so you can put it in front of users and learn what's actually true.
Agents, RAG, document processing, smart search, copilots that actually feel good to use. Not a chatbot bolted on — a feature that makes the rest of your product sharper.
If a human is gluing two systems together by hand, that's a bug. Custom scripts, pipelines, and tidy little services that do the work while you sleep and never complain.
Admin panels, approval queues, data explorers, back-office tools. The unglamorous software that makes the glamorous software actually work. I like this part.
A one-week paid discovery: I poke at the idea with you, sketch the shape, estimate the build, and hand back a doc you can act on — with me or anyone else. No pressure to continue.
Hi — I'm Carl. New Zealander by birth, Baltimore-based by choice. I've spent a decade shipping software that people actually depend on: point-of-sale systems for retailers who can't afford a checkout to freeze, anti–money-laundering identity checks that banks bet their licence on, and IoT telemetry pipelines chewing through millions of device heartbeats a day.
Now I'm taking that stack of scars and pointing it at your idea. Solo, fast, and wired up with the latest AI tooling — Claude, Cursor, custom agents — so one engineer can cover the ground a small team used to.
The kea? It's a mountain parrot from back home. Infamously clever. Will unscrew your windshield wipers, solve a lab puzzle, and look smug about both. That's the vibe: intelligent, curious, a little bit of a menace to the status quo — and genuinely lovable once you get one on your team.
Got an idea,
a budget,
and a rough deadline?
That's the shortlist. Fill out what you know, leave blank what you don't. I read every inquiry personally — usually within a day — and I'll tell you honestly if I'm the right fit, even if the answer is no.