Work & Ventures
What we’ve built, and what we’re building.
Three decades of work, from global brand campaigns to the products and platforms we design, build, and run today.
What we build
Products.
A few of the products we design, build, and run. The full catalog, with the stack and feature depth behind each one, lives on the products page.
What we build and run
Ventures.
The ItsA Network
Free, no-login utilities that answer one question: is today a good day to go? Each scores live conditions from zero to one hundred using real public data, from NWS and NOAA to USGS, EPA, NPS, and OpenStreetMap, never guesswork. itsabeachday rates roughly 500 beaches per activity, itsafishingday scores 48 species across 480 spots, itsatrailday covers 2,500-plus Mid-Atlantic trails, and itsabikeday grades rides with wind-relative-to-route analysis.
Smart Astrologics
A peer brand and product studio, built and run under 137. The studio behind Smart Horoscopes (self-inquiry grounded in your birth chart, with AI that remembers you) and Spiritual Vedic Names (Vedic naming by nakshatra and rashi), on shared deterministic astronomy computation.
smartastrologics.com →
137 Platform
The operations platform behind everything 137 runs: product licensing and invoicing, managed deployments provisioned across cloud, VPS, and bare-metal providers, advertising across the ItsA Network, and a self-serve public office portal where clients handle it all themselves. Substantial pieces are about to go live.
office.137andco.com →GrandBower
A real-time multiplayer euchre platform. Live four-player games against people and a thousand AI bots, with ranked Elo ladders, clubs, detailed stats, and trick-by-trick replays. Opening to free players for open testing soon.
SLK · Strategic Thinking Partner
A recent client build: the website for a strategic-thinking-partnership practice. Design, development, and deployment, end to end.
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Previous design & development
For names you know.
Earlier design and development work, including interactive, animated ad campaigns for recognizable brands. A selection from the archive.
Mockup
Under the hood
Most of the real work has no screenshot.
Three decades of connective software, much of it under NDA. Here is the shape of the work, without the names.
- Payments · Automation
Backend and administration for a Stripe-integrated voiceover platform, with event-driven automation.
- Integrations
Backend and integration work for a client-facing project dashboard a company runs for its own clients.
- Knowledge
Backend, administration, and frontend for an internal, idea-based knowledge-retrieval system.
- E-learning · AI
An xAPI-driven, content-adaptive, AI-capable framework that extends what Rise360 projects can do.
- E-learning
An enterprise learning-management platform with the feature depth a large training organization needs.
- AI · Pipelines
A pipeline that turns AI artwork from local models into print-quality physical pieces.
- Real-time
An internal, secure messaging application.
- Publishing
A news-publication pipeline built from the ground up: a research-and-writing portal, a moderated publication process, and a separate public-facing publication.
- Real-time
A low-latency Twitch bot framework that monitors chat across the top 100 streamers and fires live-overlay commands within milliseconds.
- AI
A recursive, AI-driven generator for adaptive learning content and stories.
- Blockchain
Core wallets in C++, block explorers, chain services, and mobile wallets for several cryptocurrencies.
- Infrastructure
Bare metal, ESXi, Proxmox, VPS and cloud, Docker, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes. The 137 Platform is the working proof.