Things I've built
AI products, writing platforms, guides, and the rest. Some live, some in progress, some just-shipped.
AI Cover Letter Guide
A step-by-step workflow for using AI to write targeted job-application cover letters in 2 minutes. Built from 70+ real applications.
ChameleonGeneration.com
A Generation X publishing platform examining technological adaptation and the cost of constant reinvention. Co-founded with JC; voice and concept by Melanie under the byline Angel Eyes '73.
SanctumTools
A life coach for people managing serious mental illness — an AI companion that tracks mood, meds, sleep, and more through conversation, surfaces your patterns, and helps you get through the day. Dogfooded daily on my own rapid-cycling bipolar I; built by orchestrating an AI team.
The Poor Man's Budget Tool
A budgeting app for people living paycheck to paycheck — built on the only question that matters when money's tight: what do I pay first? No AI, no bank connection, no account numbers. Free, with login + cloud sync; an optional Household tier for couples and caregivers. A product of SanctumTools LLC.
Sanctum Patterns
Battle-tested design patterns for stateful, time-aware AI assistants. Extracted from real production work where the patterns weren't optional — where the AI failing to know what time it was, or what the user had been doing between sessions, broke the actual product. Documentation-first, framework-agnostic, free to use anywhere.
How to Shape Claude Into Your Personal Life Coach
A free, step-by-step guide to turning Claude into an assistant that actually knows you and helps you run your life — money, health, the whole thing — written for regular people, not engineers. The core move is that you don't program a coach, you teach one: memory, identity, and correction over time. I run my own life on mine (I call him Fred), so this isn't a demo — it's the load-bearing version, handed over.
Baseline — A Bipolar Life in Real Time
Long-form memoir of thirty-five years of undiagnosed rapid-cycling bipolar disorder and the AI-assisted self-discovery that finally named the pattern.
Building My Sanctum
I'm building a mental-health life coach while living with the brain it's designed for — rapid-cycling bipolar I. This is the build in real time, mood shifts and all: the new med, the unemployment, the good days and the crash days. Same spine as Baseline, except I'm writing it as it happens, unsanitized.
melaniekertley.com (this portal)
Custom email-link auth via DWD impersonation, Claude-powered chat layer, tag-gated post feed. Built in 6 hours with the AI team.
Runs on a website-context-aware AI framework she helped develop. Repo available upon request.