Other Builds
Some of the stuff I built in 2025 and 2026. Some are publicly accessible, others only on my GitHub, I’ll eventually clean up and upload the others that can be shared to GitHub.
Readability Machine
Started Sep 13, 2026
Turns a long podcast episode into a web page that’s pleasant to read rather than a wall of transcript. It transcribes chapter audio verbatim, lightly strips the “yeah, right, mhm” backchannel noise without rewriting anyone’s words, and adds AI chapter gists and recaps. It also treats the conversation as data: who talked how much, and every interruption classified by whether the speaker seized the floor.
Read the first output: Wolf Tivy and Richard Ngo →
Presenter Brain
Started Sep 6, 2026
A fun experiment, in beta, that I haven’t used in real life yet. It turns the Q&A half of a talk into the prepared half. The presenter uploads notes, the deck, and a transcript of an AI interview about their positions. The audience scans a QR code to ask and upvote questions from their phones, each tagged to the slide that was showing, and an AI that has read everything drafts a cited answer for each question and merges duplicates. Live polls with AI grouping of open answers, too.
Twitter Gate
Started Aug 29, 2026 (Android) and Sep 8, 2026 (Firefox)
An intention check that stands between me and X, on both my phone and my desktop. Every attempt to open X is intercepted: write a gratitude note, say whether you’re avoiding something, look at today’s todo list pulled live from my Obsidian board, then choose a deliberate 5, 10, or 15 minute window. When it expires, every open X tab snaps back to the todo screen. The Android app (sideloaded on my phone) and the Firefox add-on are twins, and gratitude entries from both sync back into my vault.
EAG Matcher
Started Jul 27, 2026
Built for the Centre for Effective Altruism to help conference attendees decide who to spend their limited 1:1 slots on. Unlock it with the event’s attendee sheet, pick your row, describe who you want to meet and what you offer, and two AI passes rank everyone into a shortlist with reasons and conversation angles. Attendee data stays in memory and your shortlist stays on your device.
Twitter Time-Turner
Started May 24, 2026
Testing the “AI guardian angel” angle. It pulls my real X timeline, scores every post against a custom filter to drop bait and keep quality long-form content, and serves the survivors chronologically. Then I print the feed out and read it before bed, no screens. Overriding a score or leaving a note feeds back into the filter, so it drifts toward my taste over time.
AI Use Audit
Started Apr 21, 2026
An experiment: turn a day of screen-recording screenshots into a minute-by-minute written account of what I was doing, so I could spot repetitive workflows worth handing to AI. Gemini reads each minute’s captures and writes a report, about a dollar for a 15,000-image day. After a few attempts it never became useful. The output was either too broad or too detailed to act on.
AVL Vibe Match
Started Mar 8, 2026
AI for community building. Everyone signs up for a friend-matching mixer in Asheville by filling out a short, introspective survey about themselves. AI reads the answers and picks three compatible people for each person, with conversation starters, and at the event you have three ten-minute conversations with your matches plus time to mingle. Raw answers stay private and are only used to build the introductions. I was matched with someone I’m now friends with.
Onyx Fork for FLI
Started Feb 14, 2026
A fork of Onyx with custom features, hosted on AWS behind Cloudflare security, running as the internal AI assistant for the Future of Life Institute. The main addition is a lightweight CRM for policy relationship tracking: contacts and orgs tagged as journalist, academic, or policymaker, with an email ingestion pipeline that files interactions automatically so the assistant can answer who we know and when we last talked. Other custom work includes incognito chats with an audited retention story and branching a conversation from any message.
Shutttle for FLF
Started Feb 9, 2026
A custom aggregator and weekly summarizer built for the Future of Life Foundation. It indexes the org’s Google Drive, Notion, Slack, and Mattermost so staff can ask “what shipped this week?” instead of searching four tools, and runs scheduled automations that post digests into Slack, including a weekly cross-source summary. Self-hosted in the org’s own Google Cloud project so the data stays in-house.
CEA Uplift
Started Feb 3, 2026
A custom build for the Centre for Effective Altruism helping staff get real work done with Claude Code. The centerpiece is a media pitching tracker: one command each morning sweeps about 170 RSS, podcast, news, and YouTube feeds plus tagged newsletters, and Claude sub-agents match each story against intake questionnaires for CEA’s spokespeople. Out come ranked pitch angles per person and breaking news worth a reactive pitch.
grantmaking.ai
Started Feb 3, 2026
A public platform for finding, evaluating, and funding AI safety work, pitched as Crunchbase meets GiveWell for the field. Browse a directory of organizations, people, projects, funds, and grants assembled from Manifund, SFF, LTFF, Coefficient Giving, and AISafety.com, follow a live fundraising feed, and self-list an org or funding ask. Owned by Manifund, with me as the builder.
Visit grantmaking.ai → · Read the Substack →
Wrenly Helper
Started Jan 27, 2026
A custom ops and support agent for Wrenly, connected to all of my work streams (production lookups, HR-system syncs, billing, the CRM, and survey data) to help with analysis and support. Recurring customer issues get the same verified fix every time instead of improvised digging.
Research Paper Triage for Blueprint Bio
Started Jan 14, 2026
A research-paper triage platform built for Blueprint Biosecurity. It ingests Google Scholar alerts through a connected Gmail account, scores each paper against the team’s seed papers and relevance criteria, and turns 20-plus daily papers into one prioritized shared queue. Members claim papers, share notes, and get urgent ones pushed via Slack or email. It works, but it didn’t take off.
Chat History Analyzer
Started Jan 11, 2026
Feed it your ChatGPT and Claude export archives and it reports conversations per day and week, how much you typed versus how much the AI wrote, and weekday versus weekend patterns. I also used it to extract my input prompts and the AI’s outputs and automatically generate an analysis of how I actually use AI. I was planning to roll it out for other orgs and users but decided not to double down on it.
Bulk ChatGPT Export
Started Jan 10, 2026
A Chrome extension that pulls your entire ChatGPT history into a JSONL backup, Projects included, with citations, tool calls, and uploads preserved. Everything runs locally on your machine. 1,200 users, and the paid tier has routed 400+ donations to GiveWell charities.
AVL GO
Started Nov 23, 2025
A web app answering “what’s happening in Asheville this week” by pulling events from 20-plus local sources into one feed. AI adds tags, summaries, artwork for events that have none, semantic search, and a chat mode where you describe the night you want. Signed-in users can sync filters, publish curated lists, get an email digest, and photograph a paper flyer to have it read and added.
Asheville Twitter Sensemaking
Started Nov 22, 2025
An AI sensemaking experiment for mapping the Asheville social graph. It crawls outward from a few seed X accounts, walks their follower lists to build a local map of who’s connected to whom, then filters for people mentioning Asheville or NC to find well-connected locals I should know but don’t. Honest result: it surfaced about ten semi-relevant people, and none of them turned into actual connections.
EA Global Matcher
Started Oct 10, 2025
A web app that tells you who to meet at EA Global. Find yourself in the attendee list and it reads everyone else’s profile to produce two ranked shortlists, people who can help you and people you can help, each with a reason and talking points. I built this during the FLF fellowship. It was the first publicly used EAG AI matcher, and a lot of people found it useful at EAG NYC 2025.
Read more on the fellowship projects page →
Offers & Asks
Started Oct 5, 2025
A matchmaking tool for EA Global NYC 2025 attendees that answers “who at this conference should I talk to?” Type your name or describe what you need or can offer, and it returns a two-way ranked list: people who can help you and people you could help, matched on the concrete offers and asks pulled from each attendee’s profile. About 575 profiles indexed.
Read more on the fellowship projects page →
AI Twitter Authority Leaderboard
Started Oct 1, 2025
A research project answering who actually matters on AI Twitter and what they believe. It maps the follow graph among AI researchers, safety people, and labs, then ranks accounts by network authority rather than follower count so substantive voices surface instead of celebrities. The output is a leaderboard of roughly 300 accounts with each person’s org, stated P(doom), timeline, and a summary of their views, plus a clustering into camps like the safety establishment and the open sourcers.
Matt-GPT
Started Aug 18, 2025
A personal AI avatar that answers questions the way I would, grounded in my archive of Slack messages, texts, Twitter exports, and hand-written personality and values docs. Ask it something and it pulls the most relevant snippets from that history and replies in my voice. Built during the FLF fellowship.
Read more on the fellowship projects page →
Bulk X Bookmark Export
Started Jul 14, 2025
A browser extension that exports your entire X bookmark collection, which X itself gives you no way to get out. Open your bookmarks, click Start, and it auto-scrolls through everything and downloads JSONL plus an LLM-ready text file. 150+ users.
AI Safety Feed
Started Apr 12, 2025
A live site that pulls the scattered AI safety conversation into one feed. It crawls LessWrong, the Alignment Forum, the EA Forum, arXiv, Substacks, podcasts, and X, then has an LLM summarize, tag, and novelty-score each item. You can filter by source, topic, and novelty, follow similar-post links, and subscribe by email or RSS.
Earlier work: Fellowship MVPs and Chrome Extensions.