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 Nightjar, the working codename for a new kind of case workspace for criminal-defense teams. It is private, early, and still changing—but the idea is simple: keep the record close, make AI genuinely useful, and let the case remember the work.

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.