Current Ventures

Barbarians

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

AMBIE

Acoustic intelligence ASR. Real-time speech recognition for high-noise environments where commercial systems fail. In development.

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.

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. 104 built, seven on the bench. See every machine.

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.

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.