Clawde boots up the portfolio, planning, building, and shipping, then hops into the corner to talk you through it.
Research-grade benchmarking for local LLMs: quality × hardware × dollars, measured on the machine you actually own. On a single RTX 3060 8GB, qwen3:8b reaches 87% of Claude Sonnet 4.6, and routing the categories it handles to local hardware (only coding escalates to Claude) runs the same work for about a sixth of the all-Sonnet cost. (Still a work in progress.)
Open Metis →01 / About & Skills
I work as a Specialist Technician employed by SolutionOne through the Technical Support to Schools Program, contracted to the Education Department, providing IT support to schools across the Mornington Peninsula. I landed the role before turning 18, in environments where support has to be fast, practical, and reliable. I'm open to broader opportunities too, not just IT contracting.
I got into coding at 8 and was building seriously by 12, starting with Luau scripting on Roblox. That hands-on, ship-it-early mindset has carried through everything since.
I've completed Cert III and Cert IV in IT and am working toward the ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity credential.
My main interest is automation: systems that reason over workflows, manage agents, and turn repetitive work into something that just runs.
02 / Projects
Discord-driven multi-agent AI fleet managing six AI providers. Lets me run everything from my phone: what websites are live, what tasks are running, what agents are active. All through Discord. I once had DeepSeek compress 80KB of server code into 10KB of completely hallucinated junk. At least I didn't have to translate it from Chinese to recover it.
A locally-run AI study assistant in a live pilot at a Victorian primary school (kept private). It runs entirely on a school Mac through Ollama with no cloud AI and all data stored locally, so it fits Department of Education privacy policy by design. It flags concerning messages for staff, gives teachers a review dashboard, and captures something schools have never had: real data on the questions students actually ask. The safeguarding, consent and deployment are all me.
Takes the IT jargon out of managing Active Directory. Built for MSPs and small businesses that can't afford a dedicated IT person, or those who've pushed the burden onto someone who shouldn't have it (the overworked receptionist doing AD work is more common than it should be). The hardest part wasn't building it. It was figuring out how to get it in front of the people who need it.
A self-hosted AI news scheduler named after the Greek goddess of news. Pick topics, a tone and a time; Google Gemini with Search grounding fetches real, sourced headlines and delivers a digest to your terminal, a file, or your inbox. Open-source CLI done, hosted dashboard demo built.
Local web-dev for businesses on the Mornington Peninsula. The client trust and the early builds are all me, but delivery is largely automated now: a form on my site fires a webhook into the AI Command Center, which spins up a fresh agent and a new project folder on my machine and starts building the site. I stay the human in the loop; the boilerplate builds itself.
A self-OSINT footprint scanner, sibling to Pheme and named after the hundred-eyed giant. A consent-gated CLI that runs username enumeration across 28 sites, then uses Gemini 2.0 Flash with Search grounding for live, cited web intel, and writes it to an HTML/JSON report. Run it on yourself before someone else does. Essentially complete, and now also an MCP server so any agent can run a scan as a tool.
A Claude Code skill I built that security-audits vibe-coded SaaS apps, the kind shipped fast with AI where "it works" and "it's safe to put on the internet" are very different things. 50 recurring ways these apps get owned, turned into a repeatable audit: scope, walk a 9-category checklist, prove the findings, score by severity, fix, re-verify. Pretty much entirely me, and the clearest case of my security judgment covering for the machine.
Research-grade benchmarking for local LLMs: quality × hardware × dollars, measured on the machine you actually own. The headline result: on a single RTX 3060 8GB, qwen3:8b reaches 87% of Claude Sonnet 4.6's quality, and routing local-first (only coding escalates to Claude) runs the suite for about a sixth of the all-Sonnet cost. Named after the titaness who got swallowed and kept advising from the inside. My deepest project, so it has its own hub.
Zero delay USB encoder wired into real arcade machine controllers, running MAME on a PC. Building something that makes classic games actually feel classic: proper hardware, proper input lag, proper vibes.
03 / Updates
The auto-router picks the cheapest capable provider per task — and a new /providers endpoint plus a live dashboard strip now show why: reachability, headroom, and Claude's spend at a glance. Shipped alongside fleet-hardening guardrails so an agent can't overwrite its own server.
Built Metis to measure local LLMs on quality, hardware, and dollars at once. The payoff: qwen3:8b matches Claude through depth-5 tool use on an 8GB GPU, and that routing claim now drives the Command Center's --auto lane — safe text work goes local, the rest stays on Claude.
The AI news app that curates and schedules your day is live at phemenews.netlify.app. Now reworking it into an MCP so any agent can pull curated, scheduled news on demand.
Visit the live app →The portfolio itself is a live exhibit. Pixel intro, a branching project map with a wandering Clawde, a written constitution, and at least three easter eggs. Built the same way everything here is built: my architecture and review, the agents' volume. Yes, the little guy in the corner is watching you read this.
Checkout, customer portal, and webhook idempotency wired in. Launch-grade billing for a Windows AD SaaS built solo, getting closer to the first paying customer.
Read the full log →04 / Contact
For automation builds, AI workflow systems, or local web work, reach Lachy directly!
