Idea to live product.
In weeks, not quarters.
AI-native product development by Galen Oakes. Naming, brand, build, ship, all by an operator with twelve platforms in production and a stack of agents shipping in parallel.
Building got faster.
Knowing what to build didn't.
The engineering used to be the expensive part. AI changed the math. Now the expensive part is judgment, what to build, what to skip, when to ship, when to wait, where the agents need a human in the loop. That's the work. It does not get cheaper. It gets clearer the more times you do it.
Five ways to work together.
Five distinct engagements sized to where you are. Whether you need a sequenced AI roadmap, a brand and landing page in a week, a clickable MVP for fundraising, full v1 product development, fractional CTO leadership, or a workshop for your team. Click any track to see scope, deliverables, and example engagements.
Selected work.
Nine AI-native platforms shipped solo across nine industries: relationship intelligence, restaurant operations, agentic websites, consumer companion AI, music marketplace, contractor estimates, e-commerce, brand generation, healthcare compliance, and aviation B2B. Click any product to open the live site.
Sentigen
Personal chief of staff that learns who you talk to and what they care about. Meeting prep, contact intelligence, proactive briefings, and a 234-tool agent that lives across every channel you already use.
Business intelligence
Mise
Multi-tenant restaurant OS with Toast POS sync, QuickBooks financial ops, and Telnyx voice AI for calls and reservations. The operator just talks to the business in plain English. 70+ admin pages, 240+ API routes, 320+ components in production.
Hospitality
Parlor
Describe your business in plain language. In under three minutes, the platform generates a production-ready multi-page site with a custom design system, copy, and SEO. Includes faithful brand rebuilds from a single logo upload and intelligent task routing across multiple model tiers.
Developer tools
Ora
Astrology, Human Design, numerology, biorhythms, and tarot synthesized into a single voice you can talk to. Web and iOS, with conversational voice that knows your chart, learned preferences that sharpen with every use, and a memory system that connects every session.
Consumer AI
Oncore
Artists post bounties for fan-shot footage and an AI ensemble (audio fingerprint, embeddings, pitch, chroma) verifies submissions automatically. 180+ tables, role-scoped surfaces for fans, artists, labels, and admins, with Stripe Connect payouts at the end of the chain.
Music + payments
Swishh
Naming with automatic trademark and domain checks, logo generation across multiple visual styles, lifestyle imagery for any brand context, and voice analysis that captures how a brand should sound. Twenty plus agent tools and automatic fallback if any provider is rate limited.
Brand + content
Krue
The contractor walks the job site talking through what is needed. The app generates a structured estimate with line items and pricing in seconds. A clean PDF proposal lands in the client inbox before the contractor leaves the driveway. Progressive Web App with full offline support.
Vertical SaaS
Ansa
Citation-locked content generation with continuous verification and cryptographic provenance, so every claim is backed by primary research and every change is auditable. Built for the regulated end of the AI content stack where trust is the product.
Healthcare + compliance
Jett
A 24/7 research assistant for jet brokers. Aircraft inventory and history, deal management, contact CRM with relationship intelligence, and real-time market research that surfaces moves competitors will spend hours digging for.
Aviation + B2BInside a Build engagement.
What a Build engagement looks like, day by day. Five concrete steps from a 20-minute discovery call through a live URL on your domain, then weekly iteration after launch. Cash or cash plus equity engagements, sized for your stage.
Discovery call
Tell me the idea. I push back on the parts that won't hold up and write you a scoped estimate by end of day.
Naming + brand
Name candidates with domain checks. Wordmark, color, type. Voice. A brand you can ship behind.
Product blueprint
The shape of v1. Flows, screens, data model, AI surfaces. Short enough to read in one sitting.
Build with agents
Production code. Real database. Real auth. Real AI. You watch it grow in a live URL, not a slide.
Ship + iterate
Live to your domain. Analytics on day one. Weekly iterations until the thing earns its keep.
Build engagement options.
Three engagement shapes inside a Build, sized to where your idea is. Spark is brand and landing page in a week. Forge is a clickable MVP ready for VCs in three weeks. Build is a full v1 product over six to twelve weeks, structured as cash plus equity so the long arc of success is shared. Pricing is conversational. Book a call and you leave with a written estimate the same day.
Spark
Brand + landing page
- Name candidates with domain checks
- Wordmark, color, type
- One high-conversion landing page
- Copy, OG image, basic analytics
- Live on your domain
- Backend or auth
- Multi-page sites or CMS
Forge
Clickable MVP, ready for VCs
- Everything in Spark
- Real product flows, not mockups
- Auth, database, one core AI surface
- A demo URL you can put in a deck
- Walkthrough video for fundraising
- Production payments or compliance
- Native mobile apps
Build
Full v1, you're the founder
- Everything in Forge
- Production-grade architecture
- Multi-tenant auth and billing
- Full agent system + integrations
- Builder-in-residence through launch
- Ongoing engineering team replacement
Built with the
cutting edge.
Most software projects spend their first months making decisions you only have to make once. Yours starts past all of that.
Architecture, settled
The boring decisions are already made. What to build, what to buy off-the-shelf, which providers to trust, where to invest engineering hours. Your team starts shipping in week one instead of researching for a month.
Multi-tenant from day one
Built so multiple customers can share the same software without ever seeing each other's data. Most teams add this in year two when an enterprise client demands it. We start with it.
Patterns that scale
The patterns that keep software working when traffic spikes, jobs fail, or two users do the same thing at once. Reused across every project, hardened by twelve different production loads.
The weird bugs, already fixed
The kinds of one-in-a-thousand bugs that surprise every new team. Why is the file import broken? Why did the payment go through twice? They burn weeks for first-timers. They are already solved in my codebase.
I build with Claude Code and a fleet of orchestrated agents that plan, implement, review, and verify in parallel. Every project ships on the latest framework versions and the latest model versions. The boring parts are automated. The taste is mine.
Every commit,
tracked in real time.
Watchtower is the live feed of autonomous coding agents building Braintied. Every session, every decision, every commit. The system that built every product on the page above is the same system you can hire.
Every session recorded
Every coding agent session captured end to end. Goal, decisions, code shipped, time spent.
Every decision tracked
Why an agent picked one model, one library, one approach over another. Documented in real time.
Every commit traced
Each commit links back to the agent run, the prompt, and the human review that approved it.
Who I work with.
Three kinds of people I do my best work with. Each has a clear shape of engagement and a clear way the partnership works.
Founders
You have an idea, a deck, or a deadline before your runway runs out. I take you from naming and brand through clickable MVP or full v1, fast enough to test the thing in market before you spend another six months and $200k figuring out it was the wrong product.
Venture studios & agencies
You have deal flow and capital but not enough builder hours. I plug in as fractional product and engineering across your portfolio, sized per company. White-label or co-credited as you prefer. Same builder, multiple companies, faster shipping than hiring full teams.
Operators with a network
You know an industry deeply, you have the relationships and the distribution, you do not have the technical co-founder. I build the product, you bring the customers and the deals, we split the company. Best for niche verticals where industry trust is the moat and code is the leverage.
Galen Oakes.
Builder. Designer. AI native operator.
Self-taught engineer building from Northern California. Twelve production AI platforms shipped solo over the past two years across hospitality, e-commerce, music, contractor tools, and consumer AI. Started this work because my mom runs a restaurant and needed help running it. Now doing the same thing for founders, venture studios, and operators with deal flow.
Currently building
GuardnilA platform in stealth, with Mark Cuban as advisor. The kind of deal that validates the whole approach.
Have an idea?
Let's build it.
Twenty minutes, no slides. You leave with a written estimate.
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