Nearly three decades of practical ideas
Built for the way you work
- Late 1990s
In/Out
Halstead Real Estate, Manhattan.
A touchscreen in/out board that ran from a single 3.5" floppy disk and launched automatically at startup. Employees tapped the screen as they arrived or left, so the receptionist always knew whether to put a call through or take a message. Built in Java to be lean and fast, at a time when touchscreens were rare.
- c. 2003
Self-managed publishing website
Holiday House, New York book publisher.
A website the publisher's own staff could update, including the catalog and individual book pages, without calling a developer. Built in ColdFusion.
- By 2009
Contractor application system
Sheet Metal Union, Labor Management Committee.
Contractors submitted job applications through their own portal. The committee reviewed, tracked and approved them through an admin dashboard, then broadcast eligible projects. Built in PHP and MySQL.
- Ongoing
Client intake form
A leading New York personal injury firm, still a Pillar client today.
Prospective clients describe their injury and circumstances, giving attorneys what they need to decide quickly whether to take a case.
- 15-year partnership
Ordering and pricing platform
An architectural print shop.
Customers order online through a configurator tied to their own pricing and product options. It was running before COVID and helped keep the business moving through it. Built in PHP and MySQL, with the code modernized in 2024.
- 2011–2012
Easy Automatic Newsletter
WordPress plugin.
A WordPress plugin that turns blog posts into scheduled email newsletters automatically, with custom designs, subscriber management, manual sending and delivery statistics. Downloaded thousands of times.
- 2023
Human Preservation
Conversational digital twin.
A conversational digital twin: an animated likeness of a real person that answers questions from their own writing and knowledge, in their cloned voice.
- 2024
Hey Website
Voice-enabled website.
A website visitors can talk to. Ask a question out loud and hear an answer drawn from the site's own content.
AI website assistant → - 2025–today
AI Operating System
Built for 29 Loaves and Pillar.
It began as Bagel Tally, a production app tracking daily output, staff pay and invoicing, and grew into a central data hub. Information that used to sit in separate apps can now be pulled together with a plain-English request, and reports that once took hours to compile take seconds.