Your idea. AI agents. A place to start.
You bring the idea or the work that keeps getting stuck. I turn what you want into clear directions for AI agents, then guide the back-and-forth towards something useful.
Bring the rough version. We can start there.
01 / The tool library
Small, useful things you can try for yourself. Start with a place to set down the thoughts you keep carrying around.
Available now: a free scratchpad & three notes.
See what’s on the shelf02 / Made for you
A task you’re tired of repeating, or an idea you want to try. We can give the agents a clear job, then work through what comes back.
Paid work. What we’re making and what it costs, agreed first.
See how we could workWork with me / AI-assisted projects
A little less effort. On purpose.It starts with saying what you want.
You shouldn’t have to be the person holding every loose end.
My part is understanding what you want and giving AI agents clear instructions. We look at what they produce, talk about what needs to change, and I guide the next attempt.
That might mean asking agents to prepare a draft, organize scattered information, or put together a first version of an idea. We decide what’s useful before taking it further.
Tell me what you want to tryInteractive example · sample information
A small example of what repeated work could become: the pieces gathered, a draft prepared, and the decision left with you.
What’s coming in
A place for the repeated part
Less chasing.
A clearer next step.
Gather the sample messages into a brief and an update you can review.
The pieces, together
A prepared update
The revised wording is in. We’re waiting on the images from Jon.
Could you confirm Friday’s handover so I can let Sam know?
Check it. Change it. You decide what goes out.
A demonstration using sample information. No inbox is connected and no message is sent.
What you’re paying for
You’re paying for my time understanding what you want, directing the agents, and working through what comes back with you. We agree the piece of work, what you’ll receive, and the price before starting.
I’ll share the instructions and notes from our work, so you have something to return to. Any setup, paid services, or ongoing support the result needs should be clear before we go ahead.
Show me what keeps getting stuck. We agree what a useful first result would look like.
I explain the job, share what we notice, and ask for changes.
We look at the result together: what’s useful, what needs another pass, and what comes next.
Or, we make it together.
Be your own boss. You don’t have to be every employee.
Have an idea you want to explore with me? I’m open to that too. I like working with people who say what they mean, give each other room to think, and care about what we make.
Different rhythms are welcome. Clear conversations about money, contributions, and ownership are part of working together.
Bring your ideaThe tool library & reading shelf
Start with a tool you can use right here. Then open a note, borrow an idea, or leave something for your future self.
Set down a thought, save it on this browser if you choose, or download a copy. No account needed.
Try the scratchpadThree short reads / Free
Scroll the shelf, or choose a note below.
A small start. Room to grow.
The scratchpad and notes are free. Paid tools and hosted subscriptions are part of the plan, but aren’t available yet.
Tell me what you wish was on the shelfTry it here / No account needed
A thought, a list, a sentence that doesn’t know what it wants to be yet. It can stay unfinished.
This page doesn’t send your writing anywhere. Saving it on this browser is optional. Download a copy if you want to keep it.
Your writing will disappear when you leave unless you save or download it.
Notes from the worktable
Short readings for making a little room in the everyday.
An idea doesn’t need to be ready for an audience before it deserves a place to land.
Sometimes the effort of explaining a thought makes you put it away. You can see a connection, but you can’t quite name it. Or the idea seems too small, too sprawling, or too far from what you were meant to be doing.
Try giving it a place that asks less of you. A page headed “not sure yet” is enough. Put down the piece you have. A phrase, a question, a rough drawing. Leave the explanation for later.
If keeping notes becomes another project to maintain, make the doorway smaller. One page. One box. Somewhere you can reach without deciding where everything belongs.
When you return, look for the thought that still has a little energy in it. You don’t owe every idea a finished product. Some are there to lead you to the next one.
For now, a place to land is enough.
A new tool is a tempting fresh start. First, spend a moment with the thing that keeps getting stuck.
Think of the last time the task felt harder than it needed to. Where did you stop? Were you looking for something, remembering something, waiting for someone, or deciding what to do next?
Write down that moment in ordinary words. “I can never find the current version” gives you more to work with than “I need a better system.”
Give the current version one home. Put the next step beside the work. Remove a repeated entry. Try it once before building a whole new arrangement around it.
If you still need a tool, you now have something concrete to ask of it. It should make that particular moment easier. It doesn’t need to become the place you put your entire life.
Let the friction describe the need.
Stopping isn’t always the difficult part. Sometimes it’s finding the thread again.
Before you close a piece of work, leave a small note for the person who will return to it. That person is you, with a different amount of energy and a few other things on your mind.
Where you stopped. What you were trying to do. The smallest next step you can see.
“Continue the project” is a large doorway. “Open the draft and read the last paragraph” is a smaller one. You can choose a new direction once you are back inside.
The note doesn’t have to be tidy, and the next step doesn’t have to be correct forever. Its job is to save you from reconstructing the whole room just to walk into it.
Leave a light on for your future self.
AI-created portrait based on Nathan’s likeness.The person behind the work
I want this to be somewhere we can make things without having to make ourselves smaller first.
I work in words: what I want something to do, how it should feel, and what needs to change. I give that direction to AI agents and ask them to handle the technical work.
There’s room for the unfinished thought here. A different rhythm doesn’t need an explanation before we begin.
A little more about meLet’s make something useful
A repeated task, an idea, or something you wish existed. Tell me in your own words. We can work out a useful next step, whether that’s a tool for the shelf or something we make together.