What I've been up to

I don't write these posts when things are quiet. I write them when the only honest answer to "what have you been up to" is too long for a text. So here it is.

The apps

Profolio grew up. v1 is live with real accounts and a backend.

Same idea, now serious: log your projects with real metrics, build your baseline, then create views — pick what each audience sees. Share a link, they see that view and nothing else. Free tier (5 projects, 1 view) is enough to know if it's useful. Pro is $29 once. Unlimited everything. No subscription.

StagePlot AI came from a 1am problem. I was tired of drawing boxes in PowerPoint, so I built the thing that does it for me. Paste your input list, get a proper plot and channel sheet. The mic defaults are the same every time — automate the boring part.

Repurpose Engine is wired and waiting. The generate endpoint is live; it goes live-live when the key goes in.

That's the pattern with all of these: scratch your own itch, ship the v1, refine only after someone uses it.

The monetization sprint

Five ideas, ranked by speed-to-cash:

1. Local Growth Fix audits — sell the $750 teardown

2. ChatConcierge — AI chat widget, $79/mo

3. Repurpose-as-a-Service — $299/mo retainers

4. Growth Ladders, full edition — $39 + the Operators circle

5. GigBooks — $7/mo for musicians

The rule for the sprint: sell the thing first, then refine. Momentum beats perfection — but never ship something unverified and call it done.

The audit wedge is the one that's live. Deterministic site checks, an AI teardown writer, a branded PDF, a public intake funnel. The payment link is up. At this point it's a sales problem, not a build problem — and there's outreach sequencing behind it, generating first-touch drafts from each teardown's top three findings.

The job hunt

Target: signed offer by October 26.

Three lanes. The professional core — marketing ops and growth, the work I've done for fourteen years. An adjacent professional lane, where the background transfers: rev ops, martech, lifecycle, partnerships. And a bridge lane — hourly roles, benefits, the kind of work that pays this month.

The hiring engine runs daily and every role gets scored on match, probability, and speed before effort goes in. Substantive replies stay mine. First touches stay mine. Everything else is automated.

And I'm widening the aperture. Income plays outrank prestige right now. Expert networks, consults, anything honest that moves. That's not a concession — it's reading the constraint correctly.

The music

Vacillantes keeps moving. The studio hours between builds. Some weeks the songs are the most productive thing I do — they're the only work with no metric attached, and that matters more than it sounds.

The principle underneath

Constraints move. Fix one and the next one appears. So a system needs a way to find the next constraint — it doesn't need a permanent favorite tactic.

Right now the constraint is cash-flow speed. And the honest read is this: the answer to that constraint isn't more code. It's productized services, sold this week, paid this month. The builds are the long game; the audits are the short one. Run both.

That's the whole accounting. Back to building.