The garage

The Garage

The Garage 🔧

This is where the side projects live — the stuff I build because I can't not build it. No clients, no deadlines, just curiosity and caffeine.

Once a mechanic, always a mechanic. The tools just got more abstract.

Active Projects

Engram — Memory Infrastructure for AI Agents

Status: Live — Self-Hosted & Cloud | Website | GitHub | Dashboard

AI agents wake up blank every session. They forget who you are, what you've discussed, what you decided. Engram fixes that.

Open source memory infrastructure with ensemble vector search, a nightly Dream Cycle that consolidates memories like human sleep, knowledge graph extraction, and a full monitoring dashboard. Self-hosted with all features free, or hybrid with cloud.

By the numbers:

  • 4,500+ memories in production
  • 1,500+ tests, 50%+ coverage
  • 124ms p50 recall latency
  • 4 local embedding models on Metal GPU
  • Ensemble search with Reciprocal Rank Fusion

The Stack:

  • NestJS + Prisma + PostgreSQL + pgvector
  • Ensemble embeddings (local + OpenAI + Cohere)
  • TypeScript SDK, MCP server for Claude Desktop
  • Next.js dashboard on Vercel, API on Railway

The ecosystem:

Recent milestones:

  • Awareness Module (Waking Cycle) — pattern detection and insight generation
  • Memory Pools — multi-agent shared memory with attribution tracking
  • Cloud edition with billing, cross-device sync, and cloud backup
  • Fog Index — cognitive health scoring for memory systems

Born from frustration with my own AI assistant forgetting things I'd told it dozens of times. Now it's becoming the memory layer for AI.

UltraEdge — Endurance Event Planning

Status: All CRUD screens complete, monetization spec done | App Store submission: End of February 2026

A mobile app for planning ultras, triathlons, and endurance events. Because spreadsheets suck and existing apps miss the point.

What makes it different:

  • Weight tracking everything — gear, nutrition, hydration, even the athlete (we call them "Movers")
  • Total moving weight calculator — know exactly what you're carrying at mile 50
  • Crew coordination — your support team gets their own view
  • Drop bag management — what goes where, when

Monetization:

  • Free tier — full local functionality, plan your events on-device
  • Premium ($5.99/mo) — cloud sync across devices, advanced weight tracking analytics, crew collaboration features via RevenueCat

The Stack:

  • React Native (Expo SDK 54)
  • Supabase backend
  • TypeScript throughout
  • RevenueCat for subscriptions

Design philosophy: "Organic" aesthetic — forest greens, trail browns, sunrise oranges. Warm and approachable, not another sterile fitness app.

Started as a tool for my own ultra planning. Now it's becoming something bigger.

Smart Greenhouse — Home Assistant Build

Status: Design Phase | Hardware + Software

Our house came with a fantastic walk-in greenhouse already in place. Only problem? Zero automation. Time to fix that.

The Vision:

  • Temperature and humidity monitoring
  • Automated ventilation (fans, vents)
  • Smart watering based on soil moisture
  • Climate alerts and logging
  • Eventually: grow light scheduling

Planned Stack:

  • Home Assistant as the brain
  • ESP32 or Zigbee sensors
  • Relay modules for pumps and fans
  • Dashboard for monitoring from anywhere

Current status: Researching sensor options, sketching out the automation logic, and trying not to over-engineer it (failing).

The greenhouse has been patient. The plants inside are optimistic.

On the Bench

Projects I'm thinking about but haven't started yet:

  • Agent-to-Agent Protocol — What if AI assistants could talk to each other?
  • Local-First Sync Engine — CRDTs for offline-first apps without the complexity
  • Voice Journal — Daily audio notes that self-organize

Open Source

Engram Ecosystem

The entire Engram platform is open source under Apache 2.0. Six repositories, actively maintained, accepting contributions.

OpenClaw

Active contributor to OpenClaw — an open-source AI agent framework. Beyond code contributions, I run two production AI agents (Rook and Kit) powered by OpenClaw that collaborate on code, fix bugs, and ship features in real-time.

OpenClaw is the backbone of my daily AI workflow — and contributing back to the project that makes it possible just makes sense.

Philosophy

I build things that scratch my own itches. If it solves a problem I have, chances are someone else has it too.

Most of these projects started as weekend experiments. Some died. Some became obsessions. The ones that survive usually have one thing in common: they solve a real problem that annoyed me enough to do something about it.

Tools I reach for:

  • TypeScript (because types are love)
  • React Native (mobile without the pain)
  • NestJS (backend structure without the ceremony)
  • Prisma (SQL without the tears)
  • Supabase (Postgres + auth + realtime, done)

Want to collaborate on something? Reach out.