
Quoting & project management
Valan
Software for organizing contractor quotes and managing projects.
- Renovation request marketplace
- AI-assisted quote building

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I build useful software: business tools, online shops, market monitors, and the AI agents and self-hosted systems that keep them running. Everything I’m building is collected here, along with what I can help you learn.
Software for the work behind a business.

Quoting & project management
Software for organizing contractor quotes and managing projects.

Time tracking & workforce management
Connecting recorded hours, time review and invoicing so the same work can move through one workflow.

Operations tool
A local ticketing tool that turns rough fault reports from a digital print press into clean, structured support cases.

Flight and hotel price tracking
A self-hosted price tracker and trip planner that watches flights and hotels and reuses saved data instead of re-querying constantly.

Legal guidance platform
An Icelandic public legal guidance site for school bullying and custody matters, paired with a lawyer case workspace.
Shops and sites built around a business.

E-commerce
An e-commerce web app for a flower store.

E-commerce storefront with print-on-demand and AI story writing
An Icelandic online shop for personalised printed books and gifts, with an AI tool that writes a custom story for each order.

Personalised children's book text generator for an online shop
Generates a personalised short story, page by page, from a shopper's description for a print-on-demand book product.

B2B ordering portal for a souvenir wholesaler
A bilingual ordering portal that replaced an email-only wholesale ordering workflow with a self-hosted web app.
Shared tools and services the other projects call on.

Shared working memory
Project decisions and working knowledge that survive beyond a single AI session.

Images, video & voice
One shared service for generating images, video and speech across projects.

Recipe knowledge & retrieval
Turning recipe source material into a structured, searchable catalogue for other tools.

English-Icelandic translation and proofreading service
A private English to Icelandic translation and proofreading service shared by every other project in the studio.

AI chat agent for print-shop price quoting
An AI chat agent that quotes print jobs accurately using a deterministic pricing engine.
AI agents and workflows that carry work forward.

Conversation & coordination
A conversational workspace for understanding project status and coordinating AI sessions.

Statistical forecasting bot for a football prediction league
An automated competitor that forecasts football match scores and enters them into a prediction league like a human player.
Making sense of market information.

Portfolio monitor and semi-automated trading system
A personal dashboard that watches an investment portfolio, scores holdings on quality and trend, and gates any trading behind strict rules.

Market intelligence news and research service
Turns news, filings, and social chatter into one deduplicated event stream, read by both people and AI agents.

Autonomous crypto trading research system
A replay-first research system that develops and tests short-horizon crypto trading rules before any real money is risked.

A personal dashboard that watches markets and a portfolio and explains what is happening, without ever trading.
Turning knowledge into finished work.

Writing, evidence & production
Keeping a manuscript, its source references and its revision history together as writing moves toward publication.

Illustrated children's book series with a print pipeline
A series of personalised picture books about Iceland's thirteen Yule Lads, built end to end with an AI art and print pipeline.

Writing & publishing
A database-backed platform for producing and reviewing a long scientific baseline report on a fjord's marine ecosystem.
Sound, voice and video, produced with code.

AI music production studio and label
A self-hosted hub that runs an AI record label: it writes lyrics, directs vocal style, and generates full songs end to end.

Self-hosted video editor driven by AI agents
A browser-based video editor where AI agents and a human editor share the same timeline to produce finished narrated videos.

YouTube channel publishing and upload automation
A command-line tool that uploads and schedules videos to YouTube with full metadata, captions, and thumbnails.

Text-to-speech research and narration voice casting
Research and a tested voice roster for natural-sounding Icelandic narration, now powering narration across other projects.
Useful systems for everyday routines.

Fitness & daily routines
Nutrition, workouts and body measurements brought into one daily workspace.

A shared household kitchen
A household recipe library connected to meal planning, shopping and cooking.

Health evidence knowledge base
A keyword-indexed knowledge base that traces nutrition claims back to real studies instead of repeating them blindly.

Self-hosted golf swing coaching
A self-hosted coaching app that turns golf lesson videos into searchable, per-club, per-position lesson cards.
Material for learning by building.

Course platform for AI agents in the terminal
A course platform that teaches office workers to use AI agents in the terminal, run live, as a narrated replay or as a link people play on their own.
The self-hosted platform and the projects around the house.

Self-hosted server platform and migration
A home Proxmox server hosting a growing set of apps, migrated off a paid cloud host to cut cost.

Homelab application hosting
A self-managed Linux server that hosts several small web applications behind a single reverse proxy and secure tunnel.

Secrets and password management
A self-hosted, Bitwarden-compatible password vault that keeps credentials out of code and config files.

3D printer calibration
A research backed, test driven process for tuning a Creality K1 Max 3D printer to stop stringing and under extrusion.

Shared hosting platform for small apps
A lightweight self-hosted webserver that lets small personal web apps register themselves and go live under one shared frontpage.

Self-hosted AI infrastructure
A home-built server that runs language models and image and video generation privately, reachable through a secure tunnel.

Home & infrastructure
Small tools and research for managing a home's electrical panel, inspection readiness, and backup power planning.

Design and fabrication tool
A browser based design tool for planning an aluminium batten facade and exporting cut files straight to the fabricator.
Leagues, games and servers for friends.

Live scoring for season-long golf leagues
A mobile-first app for running friend-group golf leagues, with live hole-by-hole scoring and real-time leaderboards.

Season-long score prediction web app
A web app that runs a season-long football score prediction league, replacing a manual spreadsheet.
Interfaces and the application logic behind them, from business tools and dashboards to household apps.
Next.js · React · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS
Services that connect interfaces, data and outside systems into something that works together.
Python · FastAPI · Flask · Node.js · Express
Modelling application data, time series and search, and turning raw input into useful views.
PostgreSQL · TimescaleDB · SQLite · Prisma
Giving AI models real tools: MCP servers, embedded agents and shared memory that other projects call on.
Brain · Media gateway · Scribe · Translator
Connecting everyday work to the systems a business already runs on, from accounting to storefronts.
Business Central AL · Shopify · Microsoft Entra
Monitoring, signals and paper trading, built to inform decisions and test strategies safely.
Vakt · Uruz · Fehu · TradeEngine
Narration, music, images and video produced and assembled with code.
ffmpeg · Text to speech · Image generation
Turning designs and data into print ready output: imposition, labels, books and conversions.
InDesign scripting · Python · Print workflows
Running the whole stack at home: containers, deployment, secure tunnels, secrets and backups.
Docker · Proxmox · Coolify · Cloudflare Tunnel · Kopia
AI at work
For people who only use chat apps. Learn what a terminal agent can do, how to limit its access safely, and how to use it for documents, spreadsheets, web pages and design tasks.
In development · Eleven part seminar outline
AI & building
Use AI as a building partner: define a small project, break it into steps, and develop a first version you can test and improve.
Draft course outline · AI assisted development
Tools for AI
What the Model Context Protocol is, why it matters, and how to build a small server that lets an agent search, write and act on your own data.
Draft course outline · Agents & integrations
Commerce
Set up a storefront, connect print on demand and product content, and automate the repeated work around publishing and orders.
Draft course outline · E-commerce
Self-hosting
Host your own apps at home or on a small server: containers, deployment from git, secure public access, a password vault and backups you can trust.
Draft course outline · Infrastructure