I spent 10 years running small businesses: a gym, coaching practice, content operation. Then I discovered I could build with AI. Now I run an AI automation consultancy and a paid community of builders.
Started health and fitness coaching
Opened Lift Life Fitness gym
Published "Health Without Sacrifice" book
Discovered Claude Code, shipped first app
Founded Zero to Automated
Became a verified mentor in the Vibe Marketing Community (2,500+ members)
Launched the Zero to Automated community (100 members in the first 3 weeks)
Built 10+ production CLI tools and a full content pipeline
Flipped ZTA to paid: first paying member on day one
"I went from fitness coach to running an AI automation business with paying clients and a community of 200+. Not because I learned to code. Because I learned to build with AI."
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Let's TalkA running record of what I ship: builds, client work, writing, and milestones. Newest first.
A skill that pulls fresh funding, price, and volatility for any ticker and bakes it into a single offline HTML dashboard. Shipped to the free ZTA Vault.
Funding rates on stocks, FX, commodities, and indices, not just crypto
Two alternating post types, proof posts and news takes, each gated through a 13-persona focus group before it ships, funneling to the free ZTA Vault.
13-persona focus-group gate on every post
A brand-config skill that turns raw business inputs into branded proposals and invoices (HTML to PDF, no external service). Built for the free ZTA Vault.
Runs the Brain on a Windows box, reachable by SSH from anywhere over a key-only, Mac-locked Tailnet.
An interactive prototype for a dental practice weighing an AI patient-intake system: a working demo with an auto-playing narrated walkthrough that pitched itself, and moved the engagement to scope and pricing.
An advisor dashboard with auto-generated quarterly PDF explainers and a compliance gate requiring a verbatim source quote and provenance tag on every output.
A live inbound AI receptionist ("Summer") for an insurance agency: state-law AI disclosure, structured medication read-back, and a warm hand-off to a human. Cut intake from ~40 min to ~4 min.
Intake ~40 min → ~4 min (~80%)
Launched VibeVoice, my native macOS voice-to-text app: code-signed with a hardened runtime, automatic updates via Sparkle, shipped as a paid product.
A deep audit of a 137,000-line production platform: built an AI-to-AI discovery protocol, surfaced silent backup failures and a runaway AI-spend leak, and designed a zero-downtime fix with a phased backlog.
105-item phased remediation backlog
Verified mentor in the 2,500+ member Vibe Marketing Community, and presented the AAA Authority Acceleration Framework to the full community.
2,500+ member community
Launched the AI automation consulting practice (now Zero to Automated), the origin marker of the current chapter.