Paid work,
real inquiries.
I read every paid inquiry myself, reply to all of them, and say no when I need to. Free ideas and feature requests go through the Ideas and Commissions board instead — that’s where they queue up. Commissions start there too; once we’ve agreed on what we’re building, the paperwork runs through the form below. Everything paid gets a disclosure line on the post, sponsored or not. Press is free.
Send the form
Sponsor a queued idea, back the shop, hire the setup, ask a code-review question, or reach me as press. Everything paid is disclosed on the post; press costs nothing. Free ideas and feature requests live on the Ideas and Commissions board instead.
Got it. I'll reply — not always quickly, but I will.
Nothing gets invoiced until I've accepted the work and we've agreed scope in writing.
If a build involves your product — read this first
I write up what happened, including when it doesn't work. A sponsorship buys the bench time and a disclosure line on the post — not the verdict.
If you need a guaranteed positive, this isn't the place.
What's in the form
Six kinds of work the form above handles. Pick what fits, fill it out, send it.
Sponsor an idea
Fund a specific build — yours or one already queued. It gets scheduled, written up, and published in full.
- Scope agreed in writing before I invoice
- Your credit and link on the post
- Files and settings published free either way
Sponsor me
Back the shop for a quarter or a year. Your name on every post in the term, no per-build haggling.
- Named sponsor block on every post in the term
- Quarterly or 12-month commitments
- Disclosure line on sponsored posts
Collaborate
Build something together — co-developed tool, a joint product, a run of parts, a series of builds.
- Joint scope, shared credit
- IP and licensing sorted before the first cut
- Published write-up either way
LLM consulting
The setup that runs this site, on your hardware. I'll also tell you which parts of your stack aren't worth paying me to fix.
- Runs on your machines, not a cloud bill
- Agents, retrieval, model selection, evals
- Day rate or fixed scope — quoted before anything starts
Press & media
Journalists and researchers: happy to talk, on the record, at no cost — lasers, local AI, or how this site runs itself.
Pick thisOther
Review or test software or code, benchmark a model or run an eval, technical write-ups for hire, or anything else that doesn't fit the five above. Pick this and tell me what you're after.
Pick thisNot a company? Buy the shop a sheet of ply.
One-off donations keep the machine fed and the projects free to read.
Individuals: PayPal, card, no account needed. Companies: ask and I'll send an invoice.
I read every paid inquiry myself. Nothing gets invoiced until we've agreed on the work in writing.