The varied résumé
Before AI, I had a résumé that didn't fit on a page. Cosmetologist. Au pair in France for two years. Nanny in seven different homes. Manager at Target. Restaurant management. Currently, administrative assistant at an accounting advisory firm — Action Advisors — handling client-facing work through tax season.
Pattern recognition was my hidden skill the whole time. Every industry runs on the same handful of problems, dressed differently. Different uniforms, same structural failures. Different bosses, same human dynamics.
It turns out that's exactly what AI orchestration needs — someone who can see the structure under the surface, name the job clearly, and hand it to the right tool.
How I found AI
I discovered Claude.ai in late 2025 and laughed out loud — that's my brother's name.
My brother Jon Claude — JC — has been an AI Orchestrator longer than I have. He's a madman white hat hacker in the best sense of the word: someone who lives in systems most people don't know exist and uses that knowledge to make things better instead of worse. When I started building, he was already there. Some of the architecture I use, he taught me. Some of it, we figured out together.
Family team. Real one.
How I actually work
Here's the part most "AI consultants" online don't talk about, because they don't actually do it:
I design agents. Each one gets a name, a clear job, and the context it needs to do that job well. Some live in my filesystem and remember everything across conversations. Some are summoned for specific tasks and forgotten when done. They have rules about what they touch and what they leave alone. They hand off to each other when the work moves between domains.
That's the work. Not "I use AI efficiently." Designing the roles, writing the system prompts, building the memory architecture, choosing the right model for the right job — knowing which Claude model fits the work in front of me, and when the honest answer is none of them.
If you've ever managed people, this is more like that than like coding.
SanctumTools LLC
SanctumTools LLC is my software company. Its first product — the wellness app — exists because I have rapid-cycling bipolar I and the existing tools didn't meet me where I was, so I built one that did. It runs on Claude API + Firebase and the orchestration patterns I designed. The company has since shipped two more products, Tablespread and the Poor Man's Budget Tool. Real users, real products, real entity.
Fred
The personal AI assistant my brother got me started on, that I shaped into the thing I needed: persistent file-based memory, daily mood tracking, file-by-file context, automated session-saving, mood and pain logging. Not a chatbot. A working colleague who remembers.
My stack
Everything runs on Google Workspace as the substrate.
The model is Claude (Anthropic) — my primary build partner across the whole line, with the right Claude model chosen for the job in front of me. I don't reach for whatever's loudest; the right tool depends on the work, and sometimes the right tool is none of them. Most of the work isn't in the model — it's in how I tell the model what to do.