Software that thinks.

I build AI-powered applications, audio instruments, and data systems. 25+ years of engineering, now focused on what AI makes possible.

AI Applications Data Engineering Audio / DSP Full Stack

Latest project

Corticorp News

Situation Room — live map
Live Situation Room satellite map of the Russia-Ukraine war with front-line overlay
Verification Desk
Corticorp News Verification Desk showing claim statuses and evidence
The Feed
Corticorp News synthesized story feed with real photo coverage
Live

Corticorp News

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. Circulating claims get checked by a transparent Verification Desk, and ongoing conflicts get their own live, map-driven situation rooms. Its Finance section tracks thirty simulated AI-managed strategies with category-index charts, a live vs-S&P-500 verdict per strategy, and a browsable catalog of every signal behind their decisions.

Claude API Next.js 16 SQLite Leaflet maps
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Also live

World’s Eye View

Live

World’s Eye View

Around 27,700 public webcams quilted onto one satellite map as live thumbnails — volcanoes, harbours, city streets and highways, from Finland to New Zealand. Zoom in and a city fills with windows; click any camera to watch it, or send several to a multicam wall. Frames refresh on their own schedules, so the map drifts through the day with the world.

Next.js 16 Leaflet Esri imagery No database
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Continental view
World's Eye View at continental zoom, live webcam thumbnails scattered across a satellite map of North America
Volcano cams
Alaska Volcano Observatory cameras strung along the Aleutian arc
Tampa Bay at night
Dozens of live traffic camera thumbnails covering Tampa Bay at night

Audio software

Plugins

A growing line of VST3 instruments and effects, built in C++ with JUCE.

CortiCorp Plugins

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.

CortSynth VST3 synthesizer
CortSynth
Synth, sampler & drum machine in one plugin.
Free
CortVerb VST3 reverb — dials and center console
CortVerb
Hybrid-FDN reverb with live visualization.
 Ironclad distortion plugin
Ironclad
Amp-style distortion with four voicings.
Coming Soon
C++ / JUCE Claude API DSP VST3
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Recent work

Projects

Apartment Finder dashboard with map

Apartment Finder

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.

Gemini API Python Web Scraping Leaflet
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CatfishCheck investigation interface

CatfishCheck

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.

AI Analysis JavaScript OSINT Privacy
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Background

About

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.

AI & Automation

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.

Data Engineering

Scraping, cleaning, enriching, and visualizing data from messy real-world sources. Turning unstructured listings, photos, and text into searchable, scored, actionable dashboards.

Audio & DSP

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.

Full Stack

End-to-end: Python backends, interactive web dashboards, REST APIs, cloud deployment, and desktop applications. Whatever the project needs to ship.

Tech I work with

Python C++ Java JavaScript Bash Claude API Gemini API JUCE SQL REST APIs AWS Kubernetes Docker Jenkins CI/CD Terraform Web Scraping FastAPI React Node.js BlazeMeter JMeter Selenium Postman Snyk SonarQube Grafana Linux Git Leaflet / Maps DSP / Audio

Get in touch

Contact

Interested in working together, or have a question about one of my projects?

Email: info@corticorp.com
CortSynth: cortsynth@corticorp.com