App builder for hire · Victoria, BC · works anywhere

You bring the need.I build the solution.

I'm an AI-first software/app builder. You bring me a general idea and I bring ferocious curiosity to bear until it has the proper edges. Next, my hyper-focus kicks in and we iterate to completion. Clean handoff, no payroll, done is done. Got another idea? LFG.

You call me. We jive. It's off to the racesReal software, live in productionFixed-scope gigs with a clean handoffSecurity protocols built into every stage
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Booking project calls for fall 2026.

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Victoria, BC. Remote everywhere.

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No obligation. No pressure.

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Shipped, live, in use.

These aren’t mockups, tutorials, or a portfolio of promises. It’s working software that runs every day, built by an AI native that has been there from the start.

Live SaaS · private beta

CoachTide

A complete coaching-practice management platform: booking pages, client pipeline, session prep, website builder, invoicing with card and Interac payments and automated follow-ups, a secure client portal, automatic ICF hour tracking, group coaching, automated email and text reminders, newsletters, metrics, an encyclopedia of coaching tools, you name it. Privacy and Security first. Not a stone was left unturned. I built it because I needed it for my own coaching practice. After that, it just made sense to make it a multi-user SaaS model that anyone could use to eliminate the administrative headache of running a practice, from first hello to paid invoice.

coachtide.com
CoachTide
Public experiment
The Honest Bot Experiment

The Honest Bot Experiment

Do you REALLY think that everyone and their dog is making loads of money using AI trading bots? I mean, the whole system is trained on what has already happened. This one is an experiment to find out whether hindsight ACTUALLY translates to foresight. Five trading bots with rules frozen in advance, publishing every result in public, win or lose. It’s got a daily data engine, a locked rulebook, and a dashboard anyone can audit.

Audit the bots
You are looking at it
JLH.CA

JLH.CA

The website you are viewing runs much deeper than the surface indicates: its a whole editable content system with a stack of private tools behind the login.

Wander the studio
Private app
Goukanson Ledger

Goukanson Ledger

This represents the pinnacle of how AI vibe coding earns its place. Single household, unique circumstances, perfectly tailored accounting. It’s a shared household expense app that replaced our family spreadsheet. Not only is it intuitive and easy to use, it imported 591 entries on day one and caught math errors that had persisted for months.

Private app
Jarvis

Jarvis

A personal executive-function dashboard built to augment my neurodiverse brain: quests instead of to-do lists, timers, momentum, and a memory that never drops the thread.

Private app
By Heart

By Heart

A trainer for memorizing long-form text word for word based on the staged-pipeline approach utilized by actors, presenters, and oral epics the world over.

Free tool
Fishing Forecast

Fishing Forecast

Tides, marine weather, and trip viability for 22 BC fishing spots in one view, so the go or no-go call takes ten seconds.

Check the water
Free tool
Palette Builder

Palette Builder

A color-harmony palette builder to inspire your next project.

Try it out
FREE TOOL
Rhyming Dictionary

Rhyming Dictionary

Need words that rhyme with with time even if they aren't as sublime as a Thai dish made with lime leaves on the Rhine? (I digress). Scratch pad included.

Find Rhymes

The method

How a build works

Bring me the idea or problem

No spec needed. Describe the need or pain-point in your own words, at whatever altitude it exists. The shape comes out in conversation. There is no scale too large or too small. Need a custom CRM for your SMB? On it. Need a custom SOP app to ensure jobs are completed the same at every site? On it. Need a POS software exactly tailored to your business needs without all the bloat that a traditional POS brings with it? On it. If you can think it, I can build it.

I ask until it has edges

Questions are my sharpest tool. Any industry, any domain: we dig until the shape is revealed. You'll know within an hour whether I'm your builder.

Hyperfocus does the heavy lifting

I build with AI deliberately and say so plainly: the tools bring speed, I bring direction, taste, and relentless testing. You see working software early, then improvements often. Momentum is the method.

Handoff, then I get out of the way

You get the finished product, every account and key, and plain-language docs. No retainer, no dependency, no payroll. When the next idea shows up, call me and the process starts all over again.

Terms, plainly

The deal

Gigs, not payroll

Every project has a built-in finish line. You get delivery, not a dependency, and you never have to figure out what to do with me afterward. That's a feature.

Scope agreed up front

We define what done means before I start. When the build teaches us something mid-flight, we talk about it in the open and decide together.

You own all of it

Code, accounts, data, docs. Your thing keeps running without me, and any developer can pick it up cold.

Integrations by default

It doesn't matter what systems you presently use, if your tech-stack can be integrated into the process, it will be.

The builder

Why hire me?

More about me

Three things that matter: Relentless curiosity, genuine relationship building, & an uncanny capacity to hyper-focus.

When I'm on your problem, I am fully on it, in deep stretches most schedules never allow. Most importantly, I intrinsically understand AI prompting for code work. Modern AI needs room to breathe. Micromanagement of its scope is anathema to its directive. Our work together is synergistic and the result is nothing short of magic.

If you can think it, I can build it.

Bring your idea exactly as it lives in your head. The first call costs nothing, and you'll leave with sharper edges on your problem whether we work together or not.

Victoria, BC · remote everywhere · gigs only