Former collegiate basketball player, six-figure bartender, car wrap shop owner, and now software engineering student building AI-powered apps with my personal assistant SADIE. The era of figuring it out has arrived.
What I am Building
A structured story planning workspace for novelists. No AI. Just your story. A novel planning dashboard built around the Save the Cat beat sheet framework. 15 beats, character sheets, scene cards, multiple projects, and a clean dark workspace. Built for writers who want structure without interference.
A curated online bookstore for real readers who buy in volume. Thousands of titles across every genre — fantasy, romantasy, dark academia, literary fiction, classics, and more. Book boxes, smart genre collections, and a bulk pricing model that rewards you the more you buy. Built with a warm indie bookshop aesthetic and BookTok energy. The more you buy, the more you save — up to 25% off.
About Me
I was a collegiate basketball player before I decided two years in that the traditional route was not for me. I dropped out, chased entrepreneurship, and spent years throwing myself at anything that seemed like an opportunity. Fitness training, car wrapping, a coffee shop, dropshipping (I know), day trading (I really know). None of it stuck the way I needed it to.
The last three years I have been bartending at one of the top clubs in Minneapolis and building something real on the side. Bartending gave me financial stability, six figures annually, and enough clarity to stop flailing and start focusing. I used that income to launch Auto Mixology, a car wrapping and customization shop, and grew it to $100k in revenue in the first year.
Then I realized I did not want to spend the next decade on my feet wrapping cars 40 hours a week. I wanted to build something that scales. Something where the work I put in at 2 AM compounds instead of resets.
Fall 2025, I made a decision: go back to school for Software Engineering. Not just for the degree, but for the skills. Because if I am going to build businesses, I want to understand the technology that powers them. I want to be the one who builds the thing, not just hires someone to.
Then I discovered OpenClaw and everything accelerated. I built SADIE, my personal AI assistant, and gave her the same alt-baddie energy I have carried for the last three years behind the bar. She is sharp, she executes, and she does not waste time. I am building two things right now: Beatboard, a novel planning tool for writers, and Hoarding Books, a curated online bookstore where the more you buy, the more you save. Both are live. Both are growing.
I am documenting everything. The wins, the failures, the late nights, the code, the pivots. If you want a front-row seat to what it actually looks like to build from zero with AI as your co-founder, this is it.
The Journey
Competed at the collegiate level. Learned discipline, resilience, and what it feels like to commit fully to something. Left after two years to bet on myself.
Fitness training, car wrapping, coffee, dropshipping, day trading. Every one taught something. None of them were the answer. But they built the instinct.
Built a financial foundation bartending at one of Minneapolis's top clubs. Used the income and the time to think clearly and build strategically.
Launched a car wrapping and customization shop. Hit $100k in revenue in year one. Proved I could build a real business. Then decided I wanted to build something that scales without trading time for dollars.
Enrolled in a Software Engineering degree program. Not to get a job. To get the skills to build the things I can already see in my head.
Discovered OpenClaw, built SADIE, and started developing Beatboard and Hoarding Books. This is the chapter where everything clicks. You are watching it happen in real time.
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