Projects
Side projects, creative works, and products I'm building outside of my day job.
Zero Vector
LiveA design manifesto for the age of AI agents
Zero-Vector Design is a new discipline: the practice of going from concept to customer with AI agents as crew, not crutch. Seven principles, an eight-phase pipeline, and a growing community of practitioners who build real things with intention. Not anti-AI — pro-craft. The manifesto, the philosophy, and the interactive tools (AI chat, self-assessment quiz) all live on a site built by one person with AI agents, practicing what it preaches.
Arroyo Labs
LiveProduct studio powered by the Zero Vector methodology
The consulting practice of Zero Vector. Arroyo Labs delivers minimum viable businesses, not just minimum viable products: customer research, experience design, and production-grade engineering fused into a single engagement. Named after the Arroyo Seco canyon in Pasadena where Jack Parsons and the Suicide Squad built the first rockets that became JPL. Same spirit: take something the establishment hasn't caught up to yet, apply rigorous methodology, and build something that outlasts the skepticism.
The Open Vector
Live — Content GrowingA free, open curriculum for design-led engineering
The educational arm of Zero Vector — a full learning platform with six levels from orientation to auteur, step-by-step approach guides, a curated resource library, AI-powered chat tutor, glossary, progress tracking, and an IDE theme switcher with 10 classic editor color schemes. Free. Always free. No paywalls, no premium tiers. Built to make the knowledge of Zero-Vector practice accessible to anyone who wants to build with intention.
Fictioneer
In Active DevelopmentAI-powered story development for fiction writers
A story development platform that gives writers perfect recall of their own canon. Built on RAG over your own books — ask your manuscript a question and it answers. Features AI-assisted prose transformation, character tracking, lore management, and a writing environment designed by a published author who needed this for her own 400K+ word series.
Labrador
Coming SoonOpen-source RAG & context middleware for any LLM
A Game Genie for your AI stack. Labrador sits between your app and any model — Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama, Mistral — injecting persistent memory, retrieved knowledge, and identity context before the model ever sees the request. Your app stays simple. Labrador handles the remembering. MIT licensed, self-hosted, no vendor lock-in, no telemetry.
The Dauntless Gambit
Book 5 In ProgressA sci-fi espionage adventure series
A four-book series blending spy-thriller plotting with science fiction worldbuilding — think Tom Clancy meets Firefly. Follows Samantha Mori, a rogue imperial operative investigating a conspiracy within the empire's highest ranks after a starship disappears. Themes of loyalty, moral ambiguity, and what happens when the system you serve no longer deserves your service.
