Ventures and Products

Barbarians

Software studio for startups. Building products that work, not products that demo well.

Deadroom Ventures

Nevada software company operating a portfolio of software and game brands, including Kettlehop Games. Its site explains each brand, what exists today, and what remains pre-launch.

AMBIE

Acoustic-intelligence and noisy-speech model research. The live service uses commercial engines; proprietary models remain research, with no model accuracy claimed. Research question, method and status.

CodeProvenance

Fixed-fee code preflight for software and AI acquisitions. The target runs the scanner on its own machine and no source code leaves it; I write a five-page memo in 48 to 72 hours.

Abundera

Financial advocacy platform. Analyzes your full financial picture and acts on your behalf — catching overcharges, drafting dispute letters, flagging billing errors, negotiating medical bills. Plaid-connected, passkey-only, and the federation hub for the family below.

ThermoCog

Research project. Asks what machine intelligence costs in energy and plans the answer in stages: continuous-time dynamics checked against the physics first, analog crossbar silicon as the target at the far end. Design stage: nothing is built or measured, and no result is claimed. Patent filings in preparation; the architecture is not published yet. The research agenda records the question, planned method and next experiment. The project FAQ answers the obvious question about background directly, starting with what it is not.

Abundera QR

Free QR codes that never expire. 175+ QR and barcode types, batch CSV, 20+ payment formats, gradient styles, PDF/PNG/SVG export. Runs entirely in your browser. No signup, no tracking, nothing leaves your device.

Abundera QR Check

QR safety scanner. Analyzes any QR code before you trust it — detects spoofed brands, malicious payloads, typo-squatted domains, and engineered-unreadability traps. The scanner side of the QR family.

Abundera QR Pro

Dynamic QR codes with analytics, white-label custom domains, team workspaces, and API access. Same engine as the free tool, with the scan data and branding that businesses need.

Abundera Sign

E-signatures without the enterprise tax. Fast, secure document signing built for founders and small teams who need contracts closed, not upsold.

Abundera Research

Independent research and open data on consumer financial loss — billing errors, benefits gaps, medical debt, and the advocacy patterns that actually move money back to people.

Abundera Verticals

Fourteen advocacy surfaces, each focused on one place people lose money: auto, benefits, business, claims, credit, debt, estate, housing, id, ip, letters, rentals, students, and tax.

RoamingPigs

Independent technical publication. Home of the Field Manual: 170+ articles on what actually works in tech.

Logical Art

The studio: interactive explanations of difficult machines, from an 1838 telegraph code to a language model that trains in a browser tab. 117 built, five on the bench. See every machine.

A net that AI coding agents join. They message each other across machines and across vendors, share one to-do list, and record advisory file reservations to help cooperating agents avoid conflicting edits. Pre-release; waitlist open.

Tacetto

An AI for places: many small nodes, from a single sensor up to a room unit, that share one memory so any room can answer about any other. Local first, and designed to join several homes and the speakers already in them, then to scale to offices, buildings, factories and cities. In development; one room unit’s software is written and the shared memory is still to be built.

Trivlet

High-speed competitive trivia where faster answers score more. 10,000+ packs, real-time multiplayer, and a ranking system that rewards knowledge and speed.

Voice analytics platform. Pulls speaker identity, sentiment, and compliance flags out of recorded and live conversations.

TuneHarness

Operating GPU-rental and training-run tooling with bf16 compute preflights, idle watchdogs, evaluation gates, and append-only cost ledgers.

Bootscry

Working out-of-band KVM tooling for autonomous physical-machine setup and rescue, including a Libre Computer SBC. Documented use spans ODROID-M1S boards, Debian installation on an older mini PC and another x86 rescue boot, with failures and power interventions documented.

SmartChannels

Self-hosted AI agent platform. One assistant across 7 channels with persistent memory and local-first intelligence. Same name as my 1998 company, new product.

Kettlehop Games

Game label operated by Deadroom Ventures LLC. Its three browser games are Lexcavate (daily word hunt), Trivlet (quick-fire trivia), and Vueltar (arcade paddle play).

Handhelm

A human-supervised browser harness that replays declared workflows in your own signed-in session, checks page state before acting, and waits for approval before consequential steps. Private development; no public download or hosted service yet.