I design, build, and ship AI products, agentic automations, and privacy-first tools — for people who'd rather own their technology than rent it.
Enterprise-grade ZFS storage on your Mac. Manage pools, snapshots, and scrubs through a clean native interface — the command line stays optional.
Why it exists: Mac users shouldn't need a terminal to trust their own storage.
macoszfs.contextinit.comYour insurance policy, finally in plain English. Know exactly what you're covered for, spot the gaps, and understand every clause before you need to.
Why it exists: nobody reads a 40-page policy — until the day it's too late.
insurance.contextinit.comAdd flood rider — area has 1-in-50 year flood risk.
A featherweight memory skill for Hermes that lives in your Obsidian vault. Auto-captures every session, compresses nightly, and recovers full context on restart — zero cloud, zero overhead.
Why it exists: built-in memory runs out of tokens. Sessions reset. Context dies. This fixes those gaps — and nothing more.
hermes.contextinit.com26 KB · MIT · Zero cloud. Memory that lives in your vault — not a black box.
Your whole network, drawn for you. Auto-discover the topology of your home or business network and export clean diagrams for audits and documentation.
Why it's next: every network outlives the memory of whoever built it.
netmap.contextinit.comEverything here runs in my own home lab first — self-hosted storage, a local-first smart home, even the solar — before it ever shows up in a product or a guide.
I've spent 20+ years in product and portfolio operations at global professional services firms — owning the systems, processes, and reporting that keep concurrent technology projects and multi-million dollar annual budgets running reliably, and serving as Product Owner on flagship AI-enabled digital products along the way.
ContextInit is where that operational discipline meets hands-on building. The products here aren't side-project sketches — they're scoped, shipped, and run like a portfolio: deliberate roadmaps, real users, and AI used as a working tool rather than a talking point.
No titles, no name-dropping — the work speaks for itself.
Stand it up from scratch, own it end-to-end, scale it as it grows.
No noise, just signal — one email when a new build note goes live.