I turn useful ideas into working things.

I’m Neil. I’ve spent a long time around public-defense technology, litigation support, discovery, trial work, infrastructure, and the improvised processes people use when the available software does not quite fit.

I’m not a software engineer. I bring the subject-matter experience, the product direction, and a clear sense of what should exist. I use AI development tools as the engineering layer, then question, test, and refine the work until it does something genuinely useful.

My main project is Open Source Discovery Processor, a local-first, source-grounded workbench for criminal-defense teams. The goal is not another AI wrapper. It is a dependable open tool that knows where every result came from and leaves the original evidence alone.

This site is where I keep project notes and write about what works, what does not, and what becomes possible when domain experience can directly steer capable AI tools.