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Digital Engineering Lab

Fast, strange, useful technology for founders, creators, and businesses that need to move. Product prototypes, AI systems, launch infrastructure, and internal tools shaped from the messy version into something real.

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// How the lab builds

Product prototypes

Clickable, testable first versions that prove the core loop before the idea gets heavy.

AI-assisted business systems

Internal tools, agents, retrieval, automations, and workflows that remove drag from real operations.

Client portals

Private, useful spaces where customers, teams, documents, tasks, and status stop living in scattered threads.

Launch infrastructure

Checkout, auth, email, analytics, webhooks, dashboards, and the unglamorous machinery that makes a product real.

Internal tools

Command decks, intake systems, logs, admin workflows, and small utilities that make the business sharper.

Experimental web experiences

Strange, memorable interfaces that make a product feel alive instead of templated.

// What We're Building

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Birthday Drop

A gift link that feels personal.

For
People sending digital gifts that should feel less like a code dump.
Built
Builder, protected reveal, media upload, themes, thank-you loop, email notifications.
Live
Live demoable builder
Pilot
TAGD

TAGD

Live more. Lose less.

For
People who need less panic around important physical things.
Built
Launch systems, referral audit, onboarding logic, retention loops.
Live
Beta track
Beta testing

SHIV

LifeOS for ADHD minds.

For
ADHD minds that need support without shame or generic productivity theater.
Built
Focus module, daily loop design, capture patterns, recovery flows.
Live
Internal prototype
Prototype

OPTX

Real estate intelligence.

For
Operators who need property signal, comparison, and workflow movement.
Built
Data model, search concepts, operator dashboard patterns, automation map.
Live
Prototype system
Prototype

VERIVI

Trust through verification.

For
Teams that need claims, records, or credentials checked without hostile UX.
Built
Claim capture, verification flow, credential display, audit trail concepts.
Live
Pilot concepts
Pilot

Constitution Kids

Learning through story.

For
Kids, parents, and teachers learning civic ideas through narrative.
Built
Story system, character paths, publishing infrastructure, classroom direction.
Live
Production lane
Prod

Experimental

The ideas we're not ready to talk about yet.

For
The lab itself: a place for ideas too early, weird, or sharp to over-explain.
Built
AI crew sketches, hardware notes, Friday prototypes, experiment bench.
Live
Selective demos
Crazy idea

// LiveCard experiment

Static things should become living systems.

The email signature is the smallest proof. A simple line in every email can point to a living identity endpoint that updates as the person changes.

View Andrew's LiveCardPermanent contact endpoint, vCard, QR, analytics-ready actions.

// Inside the Lab

2026

20+Lab threads
1Production lane
AISystems
SaaSPrototypes
ToolsInternal tooling
Q1

Prototype Sprint

New AI workflows, product shells, and launch infrastructure.

Q2

Shipping Floor

Mobile apps, SaaS launches, automation, and client systems moving into the world.

Q3

Impossible Ideas

CAD sketches, new hardware concepts, story engines, and things that need a Friday deadline.

Crazy IdeasPrototypeBeta / PilotProduction
AI CrewKite LabFriday Builds
SHIVOPTXLab Pass
TAGDVERIVIBirthday Drop
Constitution Kidsdrknyt.comPublic log

One in production. The rest are deliberately staged.

Have an Idea?

Bring me the messy version. I'll help shape it into something real.

Whether it is an AI startup, an internal business tool, a client portal, a mobile app, or something that does not have a category yet. The point is motion: define the useful core, build the first real version, and learn from behavior.

Start a Build ConversationSend the rough idea. We will find the buildable edge.