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Professional website deployed in 1-2 weeks using modern frameworks
High-converting landing pages for campaigns and products
Intelligent chatbot for customer service and lead generation
Automate repetitive tasks with AI-powered workflows
Update legacy code to modern standards and frameworks
Strategic guidance on technology choices and architecture
3 shipped projects with measurable outcomes. Each scoped, built, and shipped with a live handoff.
Steve delivered an exceptional website for my braiding business. My bookings tripled in the first month, and I save over 10 hours a week on scheduling. The booking functionality works flawlessly!
30-minute call. Where's the pain, where's the revenue. No slide decks.
One-page statement of work. Fixed fee, fixed date, no scope creep.
Daily Loom updates. Staging link from day two. You steer, I ship.
Docs, training session, 30-day warranty. Optional monthly retainer.
Field notes from recent builds, architecture decisions, and operational lessons.
Featured
China ordered Meta to unwind its $2 billion Manus acquisition four months after it closed. The Singapore relocation playbook that Chinese AI startups have been running for the last year just got a lot more expensive.
Anthropic
Alphabet is committing up to $40 billion to Anthropic, but only $10 billion is wired today. The bigger story is who actually controls the compute Anthropic needs to keep building.
AI
The State Department sent a global cable warning allies about Chinese model distillation. Whatever distillation used to be, it is now diplomacy.
OpenAI
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026. The benchmark numbers are good. The token efficiency claim is interesting. But the thing that will actually matter to anyone running a business is that this release is the clearest signal yet that OpenAI is collapsing ChatGPT, Codex, and its AI browser into one product.
SpaceX
Reuters reviewed SpaceX's IPO filing. The company claims a $28.5 trillion total addressable market, with $22.7 trillion of that in enterprise AI. It is the most aggressive positioning pivot I have seen from a company this big, and the financials behind it are messier than the pitch.
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