Nina
A private assistant that runs on your own machine and keeps its memory there.
BuildingToronto, Canada · since 1999
Carpenter, designer, inventor, technologist, fabricator.
Twenty five years of making things fit. The material keeps changing. The way I look at a problem does not.
Portfolio · by area
Where the work lives
Four benches, one hand.
Not one product, one service, one title. I solve the problem in front of me, and when I do not have the answer I go and find the person who does.
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TAG.com
A private assistant that runs on hardware you own. One individual to one individual. Not social media.
TAG.ca
Hardware, private infrastructure, and the consulting around it. Where the talks get scheduled.
TAG Designs
Bars, millwork, fit-out, lighting, fabrication. Twenty five years of it, and still the work I am fastest at.
Consulting and coaching
Turning an idea into something that works. Hands on and blunt. I will tell you if the idea is weak.
Now
What is on the bench.
A person's value is their plans, not their past. So this is the current list, with an honest label on each.
Software
Hardware
The key
Identity, location and mesh messaging in one object. Works when the network does not.
In designTeaching
Talks
Monthly, in person, small rooms. Building with AI without handing your work to someone else's server.
RunningTrade
Built work
Bar and restaurant fit-out in Toronto. Millwork, lighting, and the joinery underneath it.
Taking jobsThe short version
How I got here.
Twenty five years in the trades. Carpentry, painting, lighting, commercial builds. At twenty four I invented a tool-less connection system and a compound forty five degree structural joint — the first time I understood that the thing in front of me was not the only way it could be done.
Everything since has been that same instinct pointed at different material. Wood, then metal, then software. The lens does not change when the material does.
All of it is about bringing people together, working with the best, and making room for someone else to do their best work. I am always looking for people who want to build the next thing.
Contact
Say what you are trying to make.
Built work, software, a problem you cannot place, or an idea you want argued with. All of it lands in the same inbox.