Comment by b00gn1sh

Location: Chattanooga, TN (Eastern)

Remote: Yes (US)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Swift, SwiftUI, macOS, Apple Intelligence (on-device), Python, Postgres, LLM pipelines (Llama, Whisper, GLM), Promptfoo evals, product design, front-end

Resume/CV: doubleabattery.com/work-with-me (full resume on request)

Email: hello@doubleabattery.com

Fractional product lead / design-led AI builder, 25 years shipping commercial work. I help non-technical founders and operators decide what to build, then ship it as production software. Not prototypes, not demos.

Recent ships: Steadcast (steadcast.co), a native macOS podcast app in the Mac App Store, plus its production AI backend: queue-based Whisper transcription on a self-hosted GPU, eval gates that block bad model output before it persists, mixture-of-models routing, cost ceilings, monitoring. Currently building an on-device Apple Intelligence macOS app that fills distributor and retailer paperwork for CPG brands.

Background: Apple Design Award winner (2003, Tubatomic; commercial work for Warner Bros, HGTV, Turner). Ran Hoff & Pepper hot sauce for a decade: 1M bottles, ~5,000 retail doors, Hot Ones Season 16. I've sat on both sides, operator with a P&L and the person shipping the software.

Best fit: AI features that need to actually work, founders burned by agencies, CPG/DTC operators who want a builder who has run a real business.