Portfolio

A sample of what we've built

Websites, apps for phones, and tools that quietly do a job every day. Click any of them to see what the problem was, what we built, and what it took.

The 1st Annual Mission Viejo Thanksgiving Celebration home page
Website

Mission Viejo Thanksgiving Celebration

A community event site — one of three, live in 11 days

A free community Thanksgiving for the whole city, with dozens of local partners to list and hundreds of people to seat. He had given up on building a website years ago — too confusing, too many passwords. Now he texts us the change and it is live the same day.

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The Ariya MD home page, showing a live practice session with AI feedback
Web App

Ariya MD

Exam and interview practice for internationally trained doctors and nurses

Preparing for the OET exam or a training-post interview means finding someone to practise with, and the right person is never free at the right hour. This gives them three: a matched peer, an AI partner at three in the morning, or a human mentor — all marked the same way.

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Illustration of the Kith call screen: two relatives on video, each hearing their own language, with live captions
Web App

Kith

Live translation for international families who don't share a language

Families spread across countries slowly stop talking, because a conversation is exhausting when nobody shares a language. Here everyone speaks their own and hears everyone else in theirs, live.

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Illustration of PhoneCam: an Android phone streaming its camera over Wi-Fi to a desktop, where it becomes the webcam in a video call
Android App

PhoneCam

Turning an old phone into a proper webcam

A decent webcam costs real money, and the phone already in your pocket has a better camera in it. This turns that phone into one — and unlike the free apps, it keeps running with the screen off.

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The Book Reader open on a chapter, with the chapter selector at the top and the narration controls along the bottom
Web App + Android App

Book Reader

Listen to any book, document or web page in a natural voice

Like Speechify, but it runs on our own hardware so the narration is free. Drop in a book, a report or a web link and it reads it aloud in a natural voice, keeping your place across your phone and your desk.

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ResearchLens comparing two studies and reporting what each one actually measured
Internal Tool

ResearchLens

Finding out whether two studies really disagree

Two studies get quoted as contradicting each other, and usually they are answering different questions. This pulls the papers, works out what each one actually measured, and says plainly whether the disagreement is real.

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The CreatePDF Android app: document library, edge adjustment, and the enhance screen
Android App

CreatePDF

Point your phone at a page, get a clean PDF

Photograph a page on a wooden table at an angle, with your fingers holding it down, and get back something that looks like it came off a flatbed scanner. Straightened, whitened, fingers painted out, saved as a PDF you can email.

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The Metabolic ROI dashboard, with sliders driving a live chart of daily calorie payoff
Web App

Metabolic ROI Dashboard

Interactive dashboards a trainer can explain the science with

Telling a client that muscle raises their metabolism does not land. Moving a slider and watching the daily numbers change in front of them does. A set of live dashboards and calculators built for explaining weight and body composition out loud, in a session.

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The SouthOC Fit personal training website
Website

SouthOC Fit

A personal training practice, online

The front door for a South Orange County training practice: who the coach is, what the programmes are, and how to get in touch — with a way through to the interactive lab when a client wants the detail behind the advice.

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The policy model showing two independent estimates side by side above a distribution chart
Web App

Policy Simulation Model

Showing where the experts disagree, instead of hiding it

Two respected sources published wildly different numbers for the same question, and the usual fix is to quietly average them. This lets you move the disputed assumptions yourself and watch both answers move.

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