What I'm Building
A few things I made because I believe the thinking in What I Believe. They're scrappy in places, yes — but most of them I use every single day.
Candice — a personal AI
A local-first personal AI with real tool use, long-term memory, multi-step reasoning, and a check-with-me-first step before she does anything that matters. She runs my life and built this site. Full page: Candice.
She's now going native: an Apple app built on the on-device Foundation Models and App Intents, so she lives in the places I already work instead of behind a chat box. The server stays the brain; the app is the face.
A knowledge vault that maintains itself
A fully local pipeline that turns my daily work into a curated knowledge vault that maintains itself — my second brain, one hundred percent on-device, none of it phoning home. It's structured as an Open Knowledge Format bundle so both people and agents can read it cleanly, with hybrid retrieval — lexical shortlisting fused with embeddings — so lookups stay cheap without going blind.
Agents that police themselves
The part I'm proudest of is the safety plumbing. Private details get masked before any request leaves the machine and restored on the way back, so a cloud model can reason without ever seeing who it's about. Incoming text — email, feeds, the web — is screened for prompt injection before it reaches the model. And a daily self-audit turns Candice's own mistakes into standing rules she carries forward.
A toolkit for the people I work with
Personal craft, turned into shared infrastructure at YTL AI Labs — the agent layer and tooling I use every day, packaged up so the people I work with can use it too.
Related
- What I Reach For - The tools underneath all of this.
- The Path Here - The experience it's built on.