Hire me for contract work

I'm Peter. I design, build and run software from Western Pennsylvania: web apps, AI tools that work from your own material, online stores, and the servers underneath them. I take contract projects with a written scope and a fixed price.

What you can hire me for

Each of these is something I have already built and run in production. The portfolio shows the working examples.

AI tools on your own material

Search and question-answering over your documents, recordings and video, with every answer linked to the page or the second it came from. Agents that do multi-step work and ask for approval before anything public or expensive.

Example: Memex Media Library, with 160 tools that outside AI agents can call.

Custom web apps and internal tools

A tool shaped to how your business works: quoting, scheduling, intake forms, dashboards, customer portals. Built to load fast on a phone.

Example: Composer, a music app that plays and remixes 111 songs in the browser.

Online stores and payments

Storefronts with Stripe checkout, automatic order fulfillment, order email, discount codes and an admin screen for the owner.

Example: westernpa.photos, a print store that sends orders to the printer by itself.

Servers you own

Your apps, mail and files on a server you control: setup, security updates, encrypted off-site backups, and a tested way to restore them.

Example: five virtual machines on one server that run everything in the portfolio.

Media and video pipelines

Transcription with speaker names, automatic clips and captions for social media, and AI video generation with a review step before anything is published.

Example: an AI video pipeline that plans shots, renders them on rented GPUs and cuts them to music.

AI coding setup for your team

Custom skills, tools and checks so an AI coding agent follows your process and proves its work with tests instead of claims.

Example: more than 35 custom agent skills I use daily, each with its own pass or fail checks.

How it works

Four steps, in this order.
  1. We sit down. In person anywhere in Western Pennsylvania, or on a call. The first meeting is free. You describe the problem and I tell you whether I am the right person for it.
  2. You get a written scope and a fixed price. It lists what will be built, what will not, and the delivery date. Nothing starts until you agree to it.
  3. I build, and you see it working every week. Half the price is due at the start and half on delivery, paid by card through Stripe.
  4. You own it. You get the code, the accounts and a written guide. I can host and maintain it for a monthly fee, or hand it to your own people.

Rates

Contract work only. I do not take employee positions.

Fixed-price project

from $1,500

A defined build with a written scope. Most projects land between $1,500 and $10,000. 50% to start, 50% on delivery.

Hourly

$85 per hour

Consulting, fixes, reviews and small jobs that do not need a full scope. Billed in half-hour steps with a two-hour minimum.

Monthly support

from $150 per month

Hosting, security updates, backups and small changes for something I built for you. Cancel any month.

Need a website for a local business?

That is a separate, simpler offer with its own prices.

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