Projects

// the takeoff suite

one free engine, one plan markup tool, one bid command center. the estimating stack i wished i had, built in the open.

• Contractor Takeoff in pilot · repo private

  shared bid command center for subcontractor teams, built on the free contractor-bid engine. document triage runs inside the app, and every finding carries its evidence: source pdf, page, sheet number, quoted text. review states survive addendum re-runs, so the team only re-checks what changed. 143 tests, in pilot now.

  contractortakeoff.ai ↗ docs ↗
  django postgres mcp
• plan-markup-app in progress · repo private for now

  my answer to running bluebeam through parallels, now a family of apps: the mac desktop tool, a local-first browser app, an embeddable viewer that lives inside Contractor Takeoff, and a read-only mcp server so agents can read a workspace. recent additions: freehand, callout, polyline and polygon tools, undo/redo, pdf export from the browser. i run real bids through it daily.

  docs ↗
  electron react typescript
• contractor-bid shipped · v0.2.1

  the free, MIT-licensed engine underneath it all. turns a bid invite into a package you can check: scope pages pulled from the plan set, a takeoff workbook, alerts, a proposal draft, a supplier sendoff zip, all with cited sources. installs in one line with pipx or homebrew, and ships starter scope profiles for 20 CSI divisions.

  docs ↗
  python cli mcp

// building now

• pancreati app in progress

  privacy-first tracker for chronic pancreatitis patients, built by one. log meals against the USDA food database in under 15 seconds, build recipes from USDA ingredients and log them with per-serving nutrition, track pain levels and meds. no medical claims, no AI insights, WCAG 2.1 AA. i live with CP and i'm building the tool i wished existed.

  nextjs react supabase
• workspace-cli pre-v1

  one command-line tool for all of google workspace — gmail, drive, calendar, sheets, docs, admin. builds its entire command surface at runtime from google's discovery service, and ships with 100+ agent skills.

  rust cli google-api

// shipped

• bid day: subcontractor tycoon shipped

  a terminal game about the part of construction nobody simulates: bidding. ten weeks of bid and cash-flow decisions across six trades, deterministic replay by seed, payroll due monday either way. built to show why count-the-work-and-add-markup loses money.

  python textual game
• agent-observability-tui shipped · early access

  local terminal dashboard for ai agent sessions. imports traces into sqlite, shows one event timeline, and lets you replay, compare, and export runs without re-running the agent. built because scrolling up 4,000 lines of terminal output is not debugging.

  python textual sqlite
• mcp-macos-toolkit shipped · early access

  local mcp server that hands an agent a bounded set of mac tools (homebrew, approved shortcuts, calendar, file search, local models) without giving it an unrestricted shell. everything opt-in, nothing leaves the machine.

  typescript mcp macos
• homebrew-cli-toolbelt shipped

  one command to upgrade a stock macos terminal — 40+ modern cli tools in 3 tiers, with a cheatsheet for every one of them. the toolbelt underneath the AI coding tools.

  homebrew shell macos
• ai-writing-skill shipped

  claude code skill that writes like a person, not a language model. 44 banned words, 6 binary eval criteria, tuned with an autonomous test loop. every post on this site goes through it.

  claude-code skill writing
• claude-architect-course shipped

  an interactive course for the claude certified architect exam, delivered inside claude code. clone it, open it, say /start.

  claude-code course
• project-planner shipped

  ai-guided planning interview that produces a handoff package — prd, stack decisions, task list, and context file. no code, just a clean plan.

  planning ai-orchestrator template
• mvp-builder shipped

  build-mode orchestrator. drop in a planning handoff, say /build, and the ai works through your task list one step at a time. picks up where project-planner leaves off.

  build ai-orchestrator template
• local-job-scraper shipped

  searches company websites directly for job openings — not indeed, not ziprecruiter. runs automatically every monday via github actions.

  python beautifulsoup github-actions
• contractorkeith.com shipped

  this site. astro, deployed to cloudflare pages, with a custom writing skill keeping the AI slop out of the blog.

  astro cloudflare-pages