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Horeb
A stock-market companion for premarket selection, technical discipline, and cleaner decisions under pressure.
Faster premarket selection
without more noise
without more noise
High Desert, California / building in public
I build useful systems for real work.
Finance-trained, service-grounded, and currently building with AI, automation, and code.
I turn messy workflows, scattered information, and good ideas into tools people can actually use.
The throughline
I have worked the front counter, taught children chess, handled janitorial work, studied finance, and built systems from scratch. That range is the point.
Selected work
Useful beats impressive.
A growing ledger of tools, websites, and systems built to remove friction from real work.
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Cura
A YouTube knowledge workflow that extracts high-signal ideas and maps them into an Obsidian vault.
Less manual research
more usable notes
more usable notes
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Lucerne Valley, online
Websites that help a small town raise money, find local resources, and preserve its own history.
Built from the ground up
Systems thinking starts with seeing the whole room.
Customer service teaches you where a process breaks. Operations teaches you what has to happen next. Finance teaches you to respect risk. Building with AI gives you another way to respond.
That is the approach I bring to every project: understand the people, find the repeated friction, then make the next version simpler.
See Dan PlansThe last five years
Service and operations.
The work that taught me how people, places, and processes actually behave.
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Jul 2026 - now
Spirit Halloween
Seasonal retail work, customer service, and the fast-moving operations of a live store.
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Apr 2024 - May 2025
Day & Knight Chess / Pomona School District
Chess Instructor. Taught elementary school students how to play chess and helped maintain a tidy learning space.
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Jan 2023 - now
Congruent Creations
Head of AI Automation and Administrative Assistant. The bridge from operational problems to practical systems.
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May 2022 - Aug 2023
Jan 2026 - nowLucerne Valley Market & Hardware
Current employer. I worked here in high school, then returned in January 2026 after graduating university. Cashier, operations, customer service, janitorial work, and food distribution.
Alongside the timeline
6+ years of self-directed trading, finance study, and building with AI.
How I work
Three things I keep close.
Start with the person.
A tool is only useful when it respects the person doing the work.
Make the next step clear.
Good systems reduce hesitation. They do not create another dashboard to babysit.
Ship the useful version.
Small, working, and honest is a better beginning than perfect and theoretical.
Start a conversation
Have a messy process worth making clearer?
Tell me what is taking too much time, losing too much information, or keeping a good idea stuck in your head.