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  1. Tools The Vault RAG and MCP System A single growing record of my work, filled and searched by the systems I use to deliver it. A search index and MCP server over an Obsidian vault: what flows in, how it fits together, and what running it taught me. Live →
  2. Tools Plans A programme plan you can talk to, with a proper Gantt for everyone else. Live →
  3. Tools Ionic-Test Real multi-user SaaS, from first commit, in seven days. Live →
  4. Tools Deliverable Tracking Five hundred deliverables, one register, and a Monday list of ten. Live →
  5. Tools TYPServer A server estate built over SSH by Claude, and the verification lessons it taught. Live →
  6. Tools The Whiteboard A multiplayer workshop whiteboard built in about 24 hours, and a study in building your way off SaaS. Live →
  7. Tools Image Asset Manager A Mac and iPad app that gives AI image generation a proper asset library. Every prompt, variant and pound tracked. Live →
  8. Notes The bond in the name Why the consultancy is called Ionic, and how the metaphor is drawn into the mark. Live →
  9. Experiments The Periodic Table of FTR The whole UK fares, ticketing and retail world as a periodic table, from idea to live in an afternoon. Live →
  10. Experiments The Chief of Staff A five-page tour of an AI chief of staff: how it takes things in, reasons, talks back and earns trust. Live →
  11. Notes Built with AI The brand, the website, this lab and the client portal, all built with AI under close direction. Live →
  12. Experiments Living network The Ionic bond-network motif, made playable. Move your cursor and watch the charge follow. Live →
  13. Notes Why a lab? A workshop for building AI-first and thinking out loud, kept apart from the consulting work. Live →

In the lab

  1. ToolsMarkUpIn the lab
  2. ToolsFare-cap calculatorIn the lab
  3. ToolsTap-cost estimatorIn the lab
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