Now on the Mac App Store
Audient
A macOS app that uses on-device AI to transcribe and search the audio and video you give it.
audient.async-digital.com
The claim everywhere right now is that AI replaces the engineer. What I keep finding is that it moves the engineer instead: from writing the code, to building the system that writes and checks it, to deciding whether to trust what comes out. That last decision is the part that doesn’t automate, and it’s still mine. The system that does the rest is Ordova.
I can run this experiment because the risk is mine to absorb. A business can’t gamble its revenue to find out whether hands-off AI works. I can, on my own products, and report what actually happens. If one fails, the lesson is the point.
The product below is real. Ordova is how it gets built. The findings are in the notes and case studies. All of it is public, because proving it is the whole exercise.
The product and the system it is built with
The system behind the work
Ordova
The system the studio runs on: software agents that review the code, enforce the conventions, check the copy, and watch for drift. The last call, whether to trust what they produce, stays human.
ordova.async-digital.comBooks
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Published · Book
Mastering NavigationPath Handling in SwiftUI
A guide to navigating view hierarchies in SwiftUI.
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In progress · Book
Mastering the AI Coworker
Principles for running an AI coworker in a one-person studio.
Writing and code
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Deep linking as an input language
Six studies on Iris: turning one URL into a deterministic outcome from anywhere in the app.
Read case study
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Notes on coordinating AI agent swarms
The primitives missing from agent-swarm runtimes, and the disciplines that fill the gap.
Read note
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Your rules should travel with you
The rules you build with an AI assistant are professional capital. They belong to the studio, not the vendor.
Read note
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Iris
The deep-linking layer from the case studies. MIT licensed, on GitHub.
View on GitHub
The bench
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Learn Texas Hold’em
Teaching a complete beginner Texas Hold’em on the big screen. Simulated chips, no real money.
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Quill
On-device transcription from the command line. Audient listens; Quill writes it down.
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FourBlocker
Turning work notes into four-blocker reports with on-device AI. Shelved because I wasn’t comfortable putting my name to AI-drafted output.