The platform
Final audits underway. Every claim measured rather than assumed, before any of it goes out.
Getting ready to launchToronto, Canada · since 1999
Carpenter, designer, inventor, technologist, fabricator.
Twenty five years in the trades. The material keeps changing. The way I look at a problem does not.
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Where the work lives
How I work.
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.
The platform
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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.
Everything on the table right now, with an honest label on each. Some of it is running, some is not built yet, and it says which.
Software
Software
Nina
A private assistant that runs on hardware you own and keeps its memory there.
BuildingHardware
The key
Identity in one object, tied to a real passport. It cannot be cloned, stolen, or moved to another device.
PrototypingHardware
The mesh
Devices find each other and move files directly, encrypted, with no company holding a copy. A stalled transfer resumes from the exact byte.
WorkingHardware
Mesh communicators
Off grid messaging for the places a network does not reach. Dive operations, expeditions, remote crews.
Coming soonInfrastructure
Private infrastructure
Your data under your own key. No back door, and no switch anyone can flip. Runs on our metal, on yours, or offline.
RunningInfrastructure
The isolated dev network
Testing everything without ever watching a real user. The awkwardness of that is the point.
RunningTrade
Barworks
Restaurant management, with Lambo Construction handling the team and the floor. The platform underneath, not the front.
In designTrade
Built work
Bar and restaurant fit-out in Toronto. Millwork, lighting, and the joinery underneath it.
Taking jobsDesign
Toronto apparel
Premium blanks made in Toronto, carrying the orange stitch mark. A platform for designers, not a fashion label.
In designSoftware
The network
A place for people to build on, and to find the trades they need. No charge to list, and a listing stays as long as it is real.
NextTeaching
Talks
Monthly, in person, small rooms. Building with AI without handing your work to someone else's server.
RunningThe 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. That was 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, or something you cannot quite place yet. Write to me and I will tell you honestly whether I can help. If I cannot, I will tell you who can.