The site this replaces was one page with a noindex on it. That is a fair description of how much
attention it had been getting.
The new one has a job: convince someone hiring, inside one screen and one scroll, that I have shipped real AI systems and can do it again. That job is what settled most of the decisions.
Case studies are files, not a CMS. Each one is a single MDX file with four fixed sections, in the same order every time: the problem, how it was built, how it functions, the value it brings. The fixed order is the point. It forces the parts that are easy to skip, and the build fails if a section is missing or out of place, so they cannot quietly disappear.
The progress map is the piece I care most about. It reads a JSON file and draws ten phases: built, in the studio, drawn. Changing one number advances it. It is on the home page, and the status on the RedPencil case study reads from the same file, so the two can never disagree. Publishing a chart that says what is not built yet is a deliberate choice. A portfolio that only shows finished work is not telling you much about how someone builds.
The pictures are abstract paintings made with Mystic 2.5 Flexible and directed by hand. Every one of them carries a credit line naming the model, the way a gallery states materials. Given what this site is arguing, hiding that would be an odd way to start.
No blog, no newsletter, no testimonials, no carousel. Work, Now, Notes, Contact.
My own answers, from my own work. They change when the work does.