Our Work
Selected projects that show how we think and build. Some clients are named, some are anonymous — the work speaks for itself either way.
Just Ask Trino: Text-to-SQL as a Native Table Function
Open-source Trino plugin for natural language to SQL conversion. Get composable table functions with JOINs, WHERE clauses, and subqueries - all in standard SQL.
Open source, native Trino plugin, composable table functions, provider-agnostic LLM
Anvil: An Autonomous Task Execution Engine
Open-source Go daemon for scheduled AI agent work — Anvil built itself in 467 commits through spec-driven autonomous development with human checkpoints.
Self-built from bootstrap, 467 commits, spec-driven autonomous development, open source
Naming Matters: Patented Brand Automation Platform
Patented brand naming platform — NLP, phonetic analysis, trademark search across US/EU/UK/Canada. Built for the firm that named PayPal.
Patented platform, multi-jurisdiction trademark search, clients of parent firm include Apple/PayPal/Disney
Tracking Down Online Scammers Using Barbara Corcoran's Identity
OSINT investigation: tracking a fraudulent skincare operation using Barbara Corcoran's likeness. Featured on The Dr. Oz Show.
Featured on The Dr. Oz Show, national US television
MoreFM Auckland: Radio's Digital Emergence
NZ Herald: "the country's most vital online radio presence." 300K monthly visits. 90K votes in a day. Station of the Year.
300,000 monthly visits, Station of the Year 2000 NZ Radio Awards, NZ Herald + Unlimited Magazine coverage
MelanieIOS: Building a Web CMS Before the Category Existed
A web CMS powering 35 NZ radio stations, TVNZ second-screen, Deloitte, Coca-Cola — years before WordPress. NZ Web Awards #1.
35 radio stations, TVNZ + TV3 second-screen, Deloitte/Coca-Cola/ATT Pacific, #1 NZ Web Awards, 4x Platinum album
Mapping Ideas Worth Spreading — TEDx Topic Analysis
Scraping 24,000 TEDx talks across 147 countries in 50 languages — the data engineering behind the TED Talk on mapping ideas.
Presented as a TED Talk, 24,000 talks analysed
COVID-19 Scientific Paper Dashboard
NLP pipeline scaled overnight into a COVID-19 research dashboard used by UCSF doctors and featured in Axios — 1st Prize at the CGDV Data Challenge.
1st Prize (Professional) — CGDV Flattening the Curve Data Challenge, featured in Axios, used by UCSF doctors, dashboard still live at covid19primer.com
Finding the Fake News King
NPR investigation: OSINT techniques traced viral fake news (1.6M views) to its source using domain forensics and network analysis.
NPR Planet Money Episode 739, 1.6M views traced
What you won't find here
A significant body of our recent work is either classified or commercially sensitive and cannot be discussed publicly. What we can say is that it spans several domains:
Large-scale data processing pipelines
High-throughput systems that ingest, transform, and route data across distributed infrastructure — handling volume, velocity, and schema complexity at scales where off-the-shelf tools stop being viable and custom engineering becomes necessary.
Natural language processing and ML/AI
Classification, entity extraction, document intelligence, and model deployment in production environments where accuracy and latency both matter. Enabling organisations to operationalise AI rather than just experiment with it.
Systems and enablement engineering
Building the platforms, tooling, and infrastructure that allow other teams to move faster — from developer tooling and CI/CD pipelines to internal platforms that abstract away operational complexity.
This work is primarily in Python and Ruby, with compiled components in Go and increasingly Rust where performance or safety constraints demand it.
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