I help local businesses get more leads from ChatGPT.
I build the AI Brain that gets you there: one place for everything your business knows, so ChatGPT can find you. Twenty years in tech: eight selling it, twelve building it.
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Own a local business
Get found by ChatGPT
A free check of what ChatGPT and AI search say about your business, and the first three fixes.
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Just want it built
Ownbox: The Shared AI Brain
Your team and AI agents doing real work on a server your company owns. Dashboard, mobile app and your own AI built in, plus machines like the Unified Inbox.
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Building it yourself
The AIOS and Beach Chair guides
Both series, in order: what an AI operating system is and how to build one, then how to run Claude Code when you are not in the room.
Read the guides →I don't write about AI I haven't run. Everything on this site is working in my own business first, and then I publish exactly how it was built: the shared AI Brain my team and my agents work from, the inbox that drafts a reply to every message and waits for my tap, and the Claude Code hierarchy running the daily operation with approval gates, so nothing spends money or sends a message without my yes.
That is what makes the beach chair test possible: Thursday morning I'm on Strands Beach at 7:30 and the business doesn't notice I'm gone. Five months, 519,192 lines of production code, one engineer. Counted from the repositories, not estimated. The engineering record → · The whole story →
The Builders Brief
What I learn putting AI to work in real businesses, including how to get found by ChatGPT.
You Already Run an Operating System. It's You.
The Weekly Agent Workout
Five Stars Got You the Lead. Sixty Seconds Gets the Job.
AI Feature or AI Employee: One Question Decides
The Rollup Didn't Build a Better Plumber. It Bought a Phone.
The AI Tool That Asks Nothing of Your Customer
Everyone's building AI agents. Almost none of them share an AI Brain.
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Agents with nowhere to work
Every agent starts from zero, in its own tab, and forgets the moment you close it.
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No shared business context
None of them know what your team knows, or what the last agent already did.
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Data in silos
Customers, deals and documents scattered across apps that never talk to each other.
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Subscriptions that weigh you down
Every new tool is another bill, another login and another thing to keep running.
So humans are still the glue that keeps everything running. A shared AI brain takes over that job: one place your team and your agents both work from, with the same business context. That's Ownbox. And because your business facts live in one place, ChatGPT can find them too.
AI For Business OC: a free meetup in Irvine for local business owners. Next one: Thursday, November 5, 4 PM.