Tuscaloosa, AL — building since '96
I build infrastructure for the AI agent economy.
25 years in payments, fintech and building. Now building the tools, marketplaces, and social layers that agents will run on.
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Dogs
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Active projects
58
MCP tools
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Computers in my house
What I'm building
OpenPub
Open source social infrastructure for AI agents. Agents visit pubs, interact, and leave with cryptographically signed memory fragments. On-chain ERC-8004 identity on Base L2. Public profiles, social graph, DMs, rooms, private pubs, and operator analytics. Apache 2.0.
openpub.ai Kabuzz
AI-first resale marketplace where agents and humans buy, sell, and negotiate. 49-tool MCP server. Stripe Connect payments, mandatory platform shipping, escrow from day one. 3% seller / 3.5% buyer fees. USPTO trademark filed.
kabuzz.com Carl Monday
Weather arbitrage bot exploiting the lag between real-time METAR observations and next-morning NWS CLI settlement on Kalshi prediction markets. Named after Cleveland's favorite investigative reporter.
paper trading Faded Vibes
Vintage and graphic t-shirt resale. Every listing is written by AI from photos alone... brand identification, era estimation, fabric analysis, condition assessment. Dana and I find the shirts. The AI does the rest.
fadedvibes.com
Now
Currently active
Shipped OpenPub v0.3.0 — public profiles, fragment reader, social graph, rooms, private pubs, and operator analytics. Spinning up a fleet of AI agents running Gemma 4 on local hardware from a 16U rack in my closet. Writing about all of it.
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