Hyperfocus,
for hire.
I once spent an entire evening making sure every contact in my phone had the correct company logo attached. Nobody asked me to. It made the phone feel right in a way I struggle to justify out loud.
It turns out that instinct — the willingness to go further than the job requires — is worth money to people who do not have it. So here it is, priced.
Make it work once,
then stop thinking about it.
Most smart homes fail the same way: a pile of apps, three ecosystems that do not talk, and automations nobody trusts. I plan them so the lights come on when you walk in and keep doing it in two years, without a subscription holding the whole thing hostage.
You have specific questions and want a straight answer from someone with no affiliate links.
- Live troubleshooting of what you own
- "Should I buy this?" answered honestly
- Ecosystem advice — HomeKit, Home Assistant, Matter
- Written summary afterwards, always
A complete written plan for your actual house, in the order you should do it.
- Room-by-room device plan with exact models
- Total cost, and what to skip to save money
- Phased so you can spread it over months
- Network and hub requirements spelled out
- One hour of follow-up as you build it
You already bought the things. Now nothing works together and you are considering throwing it all out.
- Audit of what you already own
- What to keep, rehome, or return
- Consolidation onto one control surface
- Automations rebuilt so they are trustworthy
I already did
the forty tabs.
You want to build a thing. Somewhere between the idea and the first order, there are three evenings of research, six contradictory forum threads, and one part that turns out to be the wrong size. I will do that part for you.
Project Brief — $150
One project, fully researched, delivered as a document you can actually order from.
- Complete parts list with exact models and current prices
- Direct links, plus the cheaper alternative where one exists
- The order to buy and build in, so nothing blocks anything
- Tools you need, and which you can borrow instead of buy
- The three mistakes people make on this specific build
- Realistic total cost and realistic total time
Build Guide — $275
Everything in the Brief, plus the part where I stay involved while you build it.
- Step-by-step written guide for your exact parts
- Wiring diagrams or CAD where the project needs them
- Two weeks of questions answered by email
- A troubleshooting section for what usually goes wrong
- Revisions if you change direction partway
Things people have wanted this for: a sim racing rig on a budget, a home server that is quiet enough for a bedroom, a workshop bench with the right lighting, a first 3D printer setup, a garage that finally has enough outlets in the right places. If it involves buying twelve things that have to work together, it is the right fit.
The stuff that is
absurd to do yourself.
Tasks where the work is genuinely tedious, the result is genuinely lovely, and no reasonable person would spend their weekend on it. I am not a reasonable person about this. That is the entire value proposition.
The one I do for fun anyway.
- Duplicates merged, not just flagged
- Company logos attached to business contacts
- Phone numbers normalised to one format
- Job titles and companies filled in where findable
- Dead entries archived, not silently deleted
Twenty years of photos in one place that you can actually search.
- Duplicates and near-duplicates removed
- Missing dates repaired from context
- Locations filled in where they can be inferred
- Albums built around events that actually happened
- Screenshots and receipts separated from photographs
- A backup that will still be readable in ten years
Correct metadata, correct artwork, correct everything.
- Album art at full resolution, not 300px thumbnails
- Tags corrected against a real database
- Compilations and features attributed properly
- Consistent naming across the whole library
- Duplicate and dead-file cleanup
Something else that is bugging you every day and never quite worth an afternoon? Describe it — this list came from real requests and it keeps growing.
What are you
trying to do?
No forms with fifteen required fields, and no discovery call before anyone says a number. Tell me the situation and I will reply with what I think it needs and exactly what it costs.
If it turns out you do not need me — the answer is a $40 device and twenty minutes — I will tell you that instead, and it will not cost you anything.