I build AI-powered applications, audio instruments, and data systems. 25+ years of engineering, now focused on what AI makes possible.
Latest project
An AI-curated digest that reads dozens of paywall-free outlets and gives you one synthesized summary per real-world event — not ten near-duplicate headlines. It clusters stories by section, then expands ongoing theatres into situation-room deep dives with live tactical maps.
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A growing line of VST3 instruments and effects, built in C++ with JUCE.
Real-time audio plugins with hand-crafted interfaces and zero-allocation engines. Three are here so far — with new instruments and effects almost ready to ship.
Recent work
An AI-powered rental aggregator that scrapes listings from Craigslist, Zillow, Apartments.com, and more. Gemini Vision scores photo quality and identifies flooring, natural light, and kitchen style. Interactive map + filterable dashboard with work-commute scoring.
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A self-service investigation tool for verifying online identities. Upload photos, phone numbers, social handles, and messages about a suspected scammer and get a report highlighting red flags. Includes reverse image search, carrier lookup, and a geo-verification beacon.
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I'm Cort — a software engineer with 25+ years building systems for Fortune 500 companies and startups across finance, energy, healthcare, and marketing. These days I'm focused on what happens when you put AI at the center of an application, not bolted on as an afterthought.
Building applications where Claude, Gemini, and vision models do real work — generating content, scoring data, analyzing images, and driving decisions that would take a human team days.
Scraping, cleaning, enriching, and visualizing data from messy real-world sources. Turning unstructured listings, photos, and text into searchable, scored, actionable dashboards.
Real-time audio synthesis in C++ with JUCE. Oscillator design, filter modeling, physical-string simulation, zero-allocation audio threads, and shipping a full VST3 plugin.
End-to-end: Python backends, interactive web dashboards, REST APIs, cloud deployment, and desktop applications. Whatever the project needs to ship.
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