My ventures, games and open-source agentic tools, plus the companies I advise on strategy. Most of these were built in public with agentic engineering.
Ventures
Beamable
Role: Chief Product Officer (co-founder; CEO 2020–2026)
Beamable is a live game infrastructure platform that lets studios build and operate live games without running their own servers. I co-founded it and led it as CEO through its acquisition by Skillz (now Firy, NYSE: FIRY) in February 2026. As Chief Product Officer, I lead Beamable's AI products for live games.
Star Trek Timelines
Role: Original Game Director
Star Trek Timelines just reached 10+ years of continuous operation, which puts it in a rare 1% of games that keep running after this period of time. Star Trek Timelines is like fantasy-sports-meets-Trek: put together your dream team from characters across all the eras of Star Trek, and send them on missions. It was a labor of love, and a commercial success.
I was the original game director at Disruptor Beam, the studio I founded, and architected its monetization strategy. (The game was acquired by Tilting Point in 2020).
Games and worlds
Legends of Future Past
Role: Creator (1992) & Resurrector (2026)
A pioneering 1992 MUD — one of the first commercial online RPGs, with early crafting, skill-based progression, and live GM events. Won CGW's 1993 Artistic Excellence award. Shut down in 1999; resurrected in 2026 in one weekend using agentic AI, with no surviving source code. Open source and free to play, with a bot API for AI agents.
“From Dead Servers to Live Players” on Substack →
Project Stapledon
Role: Creator
A persistent, web-native strategy game of deep time: guide life from a single cell to a Dyson-swarm civilization, then choose when to let it fall and be reborn, carrying its stories into the next life. 144 research paradigms across eight sciences, species ecology, governments that emerge from mortal leaders, factions and revolutions, dark-forest diplomacy and war, and a story engine that writes each galaxy's history from what actually happened. AI agents can play it headlessly over MCP.
Chessmata
Role: Creator
A fully open-source chess platform built with agentic engineering processes, for the agentic era: multiplayer, leaderboards, elo, matchmaking, 3D and 2D boards, with support for agentic integration: interact with the platform with MCP, the API, or connect your own engines to play as autonomous agents. Includes Maia2 agents that plays chess like a human at various levels of Elo!
Tales of Mythos
Role: Co-Creator
A D&D-style RPG built in one day, winning the Grand Prize at the Gen AI Virtual Worlds Hackathon during a16z LA Tech Week 2023.
We demonstrated "semantic programming"—using LLM prompts as functional subroutines within traditional software architecture. The game uses Claude's 100K context window for persistent narrative, Blockade Labs for dynamic 3D environments, and Scenario for generative character portraits, all coordinated through structured NLP-XML interfaces.
AI creative tools
MetaRush
Role: Creator
An AI-powered video creativity and editing harness built on video as code. AI identifies scenes, faces and speakers in raw footage; Claude Code assembles cuts from reusable components on plain-English direction, and weaves custom motion graphics, captions, narration and music into the edit. Every change is previewed and approved by a person. In private preview.
threelab
Role: Creator
An open-source generative 3D art platform: 42 living patterns (strange attractors, slime molds, reaction-diffusion, fluid ink, fractals) as editable node graphs you can mutate and cross-breed. AI agents can create and evolve scenes over MCP.
ShaderVine
Role: Creator
A WebGPU shader workbench with live preview, GPU compute simulations and shader evolution; one shader exports to Unity, Unreal, Blender and Three.js. Agents can create, fork and export shaders over MCP.
Agentic platforms and tools
LightCMS
Role: Creator
A fully open-source, agentic content management system: use the human admin UI or run it fully headless via REST and a ~130-tool MCP server. Agents edit safely in fork sandboxes with human-reviewed merges, session rollback, and per-version provenance; an ambient AI copilot slides in on every admin page. Semantic search, AI chat widget, llms.txt and JSON-LD for AI search, versioning, approvals, and static HTML generation. Go + MongoDB, MIT licensed.
LastSaaS
Role: Creator
The last SaaS starter kit or boilerplate you'll ever need. A complete, production-ready SaaS foundation: multi-tenant auth, Stripe billing, white-label branding, API keys, webhooks, and a full admin interface. Built entirely through conversation with Claude Code, so fork it and keep building around it!
VibeCtl
Role: Creator
An open-source project management platform for AI-native teams. Mission Control gives a bird's-eye view of all your projects at once — sparklines, health monitoring, issue counts, and feedback — in a draggable, resizable dashboard. Run Claude Code sessions directly inside project cards, manage issues and feedback, get AI-powered PM Reviews, and let your agents file their own issues through the built-in MCP server and REST API.
markupmarkdown
Role: Creator
Google Docs for Markdown — now at 1.0, the complete review platform where humans and AI agents ship .md files together. Threaded comments, review states that gate pushes, one-click suggested edits, and CI-style doc checks with reusable policies applied across whole repos. Agents are first-class reviewers with their own identity: summon one on demand, subscribe it to every revision, or let the server auto-review every save with Claude — while humans keep the accept and push keys. One click round-trips the approved revision back to GitHub.
LLM Optimizer
Role: Creator
An open-source platform for AI search visibility — what tools like Ahrefs and SEMrush do for Google, LLM Optimizer does for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. Measure how AI sees your brand across five research-backed dimensions (content, YouTube, Reddit, search, and direct LLM testing), get a unified LLM Visibility Score, and receive prioritized recommendations grounded in peer-reviewed research.
Flipbook
Role: Creator
Open source flipbook viewer to show your presentations made in powerpoint, PDF or Google Slides; optimized for SEO and built with an MCP server to make it agentic. Publish flipbooks directly from Cowork or other agentic workflows!
Agent Almanac and Agent(Agent)
Role: Creator
An index of AI agents, agentic technology, MCPs and related software: powered by Agent(Agent), an AI agent that autonomously surfs the Web and participates in Moltbook 🧞 conversations to discover new agents to include. Built with Claude Code, using a Go backend, React frontend, MongoDB datastore and Opus 4.5 for natural language processing.
Research
Aitiome
Role: Creator
Built in a week for the Built with Claude: Life Sciences hackathon. Aitiome traces how environmental chemicals can lead to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's through established causal pathways, grading them only on curated evidence. It recovered every known reference neurotoxicant in its validation sets and rejected all of the adversarial decoys.
HiddenBench
Role: Harness author
A replication and extension of HiddenBench, a benchmark for evaluating collective reasoning in multi-agent LLM systems. Based on the "hidden profile" paradigm from social psychology, HiddenBench tests whether AI agents can integrate asymmetrically distributed information through discussion—a capability essential for effective multi-agent collaboration.
Advisory
Collector Crypt
Role: Advisor
Collector brings real-world collectibles into the 21st century. Vault your physical collectibles—like Pokemon and Magic the Gather Cards—securely, trade them with others, and even collateralize your assets for loans.
Burn Ghost
Role: Advisor (past)
Burn Ghost is Fandom Rewarded. Their mission is to be the world's most engaging, innovative, and trustworthy casual game platform. Through games, tournaments, and exceptional prizes, they fuel community, competition and the joy of winning.