TAMPA AND ORLANDO, FLORIDA

I notice the small problems,
then I go build the fix.

Two decades in enterprise software taught me what has to be assembled for an idea to become something real that people pay for. AI closed the last gap. Now the distance between noticing a problem and shipping a product is measured in days.

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WHAT I BUILD

The idea factory.

Every one of these started the same way: I ran into a problem, could not find an honest product that solved it, and built it. The first four are the main products, running in production with real customers. Below them are the public ledgers, the directories they feed, the sites I built for my own kids, and the work I do for clients.

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HOLDING COMPANY
Haygood Ideas, Inc.

The company everything else runs under. One operator, one factory floor, and a bench that now runs from live products with paying customers down to things still being wired up this week. Every product here shares the same spine: the same customer record, the same AI fleet, the same rule that nothing goes out without a human saying so.

Not a holding company that just owns paper. I build inside it.

  • Founded and run by one operator
  • Live products, plus a working bench
  • One shared record underneath all of it
  • haygoodideas.com
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TOP RATED
A local directory worth trusting

A directory network covering cities across the country, listing verified local businesses with a real local presence and the licenses their state actually requires. Rankings come from real Google ratings, never from who paid. Owners can claim a listing free, and Maya, the AI concierge, answers questions on the site day or night.

No pay-to-play rankings, and we do not resell your details to five contractors at once.

  • Rankings from real Google ratings
  • Maya, an AI concierge, answers day and night
  • Free listing claims for owners
  • topratedcities.com
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AFTER HOURS AI
The phone always gets answered

A 24/7 AI receptionist for local businesses. It answers on the number customers already call, books the job, and texts the owner the details while the caller is still on the line. It also handles the website and the AI search visibility that decides whether anyone finds the business at all. Nobody goes to voicemail, and nobody pays for the spam calls it screens out.

Never miss an important call again, and never waste time on a spam one either.

  • Answers on your existing line
  • Website management and AI search visibility
  • Plans from 19 dollars a month
  • afterhai.com
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AI EXECUTIVE
An AI chief of staff

For founders and executives who have become the bottleneck in their own company. It reads the mail before you do and drafts the replies, defends the calendar, catches the commitments made out loud on calls, and hands you the day already triaged. It runs on your own infrastructure, under your own keys, and it never sends anything you did not approve.

Not a chatbot you have to remember to prompt. A named AI that does the work and brings you the decisions.

  • Deployed on your own infrastructure
  • Never sends anything you did not approve
  • Built on the models you already trust
  • aiexec.me

Featured

The one that moves.

Ledgers and research

Public records rather than products. Each one grades or timestamps something that is normally just asserted.

Directories and catalogs

Built on the Top Rated spine: real listings, real ratings, an AI you can ask instead of scrolling.

Family

The ones I built for my own kids, and the product that came out of doing it.

Built for clients

Other people's businesses, built and run the same way as my own.

HOW I WORK

What I am actually good at is noticing.

I have been writing down my ideas since I was eleven years old. Over the years I watched a good number of them come to market, built by somebody else. I took that to mean what it obviously meant: the ideas were sound. I simply did not have the means to act on them.

I go through an ordinary day and register the small frictions most people have trained themselves to ignore, and I can turn one of those into a product idea almost immediately. Two decades in enterprise software taught me the rest: what genuinely has to be assembled for an idea to become a real thing that real people pay for.

Artificial intelligence closed the last gap. Everywhere my own understanding ran out, it filled in. The bottleneck was never the ideas or the judgement. It was the ability and the means to bring them to life. That strain is gone.

So I build the whole thing now. The product, the voice agent that answers the phone, the directory it lists in, the billing, the site you are reading. I would rather ship something small that works than describe something large that does not.

BEFORE THIS

Twenty years of enterprise software.

Most recently in partner sales for a conversational AI platform, where I spent my days showing large companies what an AI agent could actually do in production. That work, and the videos I made explaining it, is collected on its own page.