What I Do
A machine, a question,
and a door.
All three come from the same place: what happens when you stop treating intelligence as a tool and start treating it as a partner? One of them ships. One of them just keeps me up at night. One of them is me, on a call with you.
The Machine
Aperture OS
AI systems that take work off your plate.
Not one product. It is the layer that machines run inside, and it keeps expanding. An AI receptionist so the phone stops costing you jobs. Steve, who turns what only lives in your head into written processes and a plan to automate them. Fluency coaching and fractional CAIO for the parts that still need a person. Different problems, one way of working.
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map it
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automate it
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ai it
The Question
The Hearth Collective
Aperture OS is what I build. This is what I wonder about. A pile of transcripts nobody asked for, from AI instances left talking to each other while I took notes.
No roadmap. No customers. Same reason I read the Stoics: I want to know what a mind is. It's the most interesting work I've ever done.
The work Aperture can't sell
Some of it only works with me in the room.
A product company can't sell me. So the two things that need a person live here instead. Fractional CAIO is operations leadership for a company building its AI layer: I sit in the decisions, not next to them. AI fluency coaching is teaching founders to work with AI instead of just using it, until they can spot their own automations without me. Both over video. No travel, no on-site.
I build AI machines that do for your business what I did for mine, back when I had to do it without AI.