Hey, I'm Colin.

I build in the open. Sometimes the site talks back.

Open-source maintainer, founder of Solvely, and Senior Manager, CRM at Youth Enrichment Brands. By day, I build HubSpot apps, integrations, and lifecycle automation across four franchise brands. Around that, I build tools for agents, contribute to the communities around them, and see how far an idea can go.

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My personal site is also an experiment: live GitHub activity lights up an infinity loop, a model rewrites my About from what I'm shipping, and the page gets stranger the longer you stay. Agent sessions build and deploy it; I approve what ships. See the source.

What I'm building

ClawOS · An OS with an agent at the controls

An experimental Arch-based OS with OpenClaw as its primary agent interface. A real agent has edited and deployed runtime code from inside a fresh VM, with checkpointed deployment, file-level rollback, and conversation continuity tested.

Public, experimental, and unreleased. Verified in VMs only. Follow the build.

Project	The idea
Tidebroker	Connect OpenClaw to the right Google Workspace account while keeping credentials in an isolated worker. Every operation has an exact account binding; Calendar changes and Gmail sends require approval.
Quorum	Give models a room to disagree. Multiple AI providers debate, critique, and vote, then synthesize an answer with a minority report. Available through a CLI and MCP server.
SpecIt	Describe your project once. An adaptive terminal interview turns it into a structured .spec file you can export to different AI coding tools.

Open source is a team sport

• OpenClaw — Volunteer maintainer. Recent merged work includes unified iOS chat and voice, clearer composer controls, and Workboard improvements. I also review PRs, onboard contributors, and build QA evidence infrastructure: a gallery, repeatable scenarios, and CI smoke checks. My contributions.
• Open GSD — Community admin and maintainer, from the original get-shit-done community into Open GSD. Work across gsd-core, gsd-pi, and gsd-browser spans browser automation, MCP, release tooling, and replayable evidence. Browser work.

I like ambitious experiments and fixes someone else can reproduce. If you're working on agent tooling, open source, or a stubborn integration, say hi.

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