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02 How · the operator notebook

Three years. 1,031 hours.
Zero lines written by hand.

One non-developer with deep energy-sector expertise, building a full-stack business operation — three live products, two enterprise platforms, 30+ automated jobs — entirely by directing AI agents. This page is the living version of that CV.

6 case studies4 phasesBuild log · weeklyREADME
1,031
Hours
900+
Sessions
5
Platforms
3
Live products
119
Enterprise
164
Articles
OverviewCase StudiesAI JourneyBuild LogREADME
The journey · 4 phases

From interrogative to directive.

01
Interrogative2023

Asking AI what was possible. Mostly broken. A few breakthroughs.

02
Imitative2024

Reproducing existing patterns. Spreadsheets, dashboards, internal tooling.

03
Generative2025

Real products. EnergiaProsto. The automation stack. First enterprise sessions.

04
Directive2026

Solo platform builds in days. Lumen. HomeEnergyForge. Local LLM lab.

Flagship · Live

Portfolio Intelligence Platform

14 days delivered · 290 days estimated · 66k lines · 44.7B rows · 7 agents.

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Currently building

HomeEnergyForge

UK household energy tools — battery sizing, solar payback, tariff comparison.

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All case studies · 5

Real builds. One method.

Live

Portfolio Intelligence Platform

290 days estimated. 14 active working days delivered. 66,380 lines, 44.7B rows, 7 AI agents.

Live

The Automation Stack

33 processes, 9 AI agent profiles, 5-stage content flywheel — a one-person media operation running on a Mac Mini.

Live

Local LLM Lab

Six models on a Mac Mini M4. What worked, what crashed, and what I'm still running. Honest local LLM testing.

Live

pickingsolutions.tech

151 posts. Zero developers. No code written by hand. One AI co-pilot and a content engine that runs itself.

Live

The Method

What 1,000 hours of AI operator work actually taught me. The failures first, then the six practices that made everything replicable.