For any small business, from construction contractors to restaurant chefs, a recorded interview about the craft, business, family, and why the work happens. The story becomes digital, interactive, audio or video, easy to reach in seconds from a QR code. Sets a shop apart from giant corporations, and memory brings customers back.
What do you need built?
What problems are you having right now? Let me see if I can help with a free consultation.
Package: Accessibility Compliance
A scan, a fix list, the remediation, and the documentation a procurement office will ask for.
Package: AI Training for Staff
Trains the people, drafts the use policy, and runs a tabletop fraud drill against deepfake scams. Draws on current 2026 AI developments.
Package: AI for Educators
Consultation for 2026 AI developments for teachers navigating all this. Private, outside, freelance. Better information, better approaches to legal and epistemological concerns, engagement with administrations, students, parents, and colleagues.
Living With AI — How to Survive the Coming Times
A workshop on staying human in the age of artificial intelligence, drawing on ancient texts and practical tools.
Mythology for Community Conversations
A facilitated session built around a myth cycle relevant to the moment a group is in.
College Applications Without AI Slop
Potent and authentic storytelling in a world of fake AI slop and oceans of other applicants. Help from a successful grant-winning PhD from a big ten program. Stand out, get chosen.
Online Course Accessibility Audit + Fix List
A course reviewed against accessibility standards, with a plain-language report and a ranked fix list. Right for course-level review and good-faith conformance documentation.
Content Audit + Fix
Content of any kind audited across seven categories: Accessibility, Sensitivity, Provenance, Veracity, Privacy, Transparency, Security. Preventative maintenance against legal issues and AI slop. Good for educators, businesses, and offices as a quick check and fix of documents, signs, or digital work at risk for online security or privacy concerns.
AI Use Policy and FAQ Pack
A one-page policy and a ten-question FAQ aligned to labor principles and reasonable-care standards, customized for any class, group, or business.
Omeka Exhibit Starter
A gallery becomes a public-facing digital exhibit on Omeka, with a handoff training for the staff member who maintains it.
Real Talk About Higher Ed and AI
Real advising and coaching for working-class college students. Things are changing fast; get smart. An hour-long interview about the situation by a former professor with a PhD, an MA, a BA, and an MS in progress, specialist in education and AI, with years working in the real world. Learn how higher education is shifting around AI and what that means for your path through it.
Affordable Class Materials
Worksheets, exams, and assignments made digital and interactive by a professional: open-source educational resources of any kind for students. The teacher says what is needed, it gets made. Not corporate, away from big publishing, easy via Pressbooks or Canvas or any other system. Audited for ethics, sensitivity, and accessibility for student concerns.
One-Course Redesign for AI Age
An online course rebuilt to serve students in the AI age when they all have chatbots, to keep them critically thinking and deeply focused, informed by cognitive learning. Outcomes, sequence, assessments, accessibility floor, finished sample, easy to put on Canvas or wherever.
Curriculum Consultation for AI Age
An interview and a talk about how smart trainers and educators are dealing with the AI crisis.
Pressbooks Activity Retrofit
Knowledge checks and graded activities added to an existing Pressbooks book, with completion data sent to the gradebook.
Adjunct Course Shell Pack
A ready-to-teach template for a department, audited for the AI age: syllabus frame, weekly modules, readings folder, welcome sequence, digital elements.
Digital Humanities Publication
A workshop, gallery, article, or archive made digital as a public-facing reader for non-specialists.
Exhibition Extension Microsite
A scrollable web companion that stays after the physical show comes down.
Docent Tour Helper
Fun educational tour or gallery activities in a simple QR code and URL.
Educator Resource Packet
Pre-visit questions, in-gallery activities, and post-visit prompts tied to a specific exhibit.
Digital Exhibit Storyboard and Metadata Plan
The narrative arc, object selection, metadata scheme, and accessibility notes, sold before the build, not after.
Nonprofit Impact Report Story Pack
The annual impact report rewritten as story instead of statistics, with accessible visuals.
Meeting Rewrite & Summary
The conflict-of-interest policy, the annual disclosure form, and the board-meeting language rewritten in plain English.
Omeka Team Training Workshop
Deep understanding of an Omeka instance with an in-house collection: building items, shaping exhibits, and planning metadata.
Interactive Gallery
Gallery labels rewritten for readability, accessibility, and narrative pull, and made into a digital accompaniment for phones with interviews of artists.
Small Business AI Starter Kit
A working session with the owner that ends with a written use policy, a fraud drill against accounts payable, and a curated tool list with real prices.
Storyline 360 Build
A digital learning module for any content imaginable with branching narrative, code blocks, and interactive design with limitless potential.
Single-Topic Staff Module
A short module on a single topic, built from supplied sources and branded for the room.
Multi-Module Course
Several short modules building toward a single learning outcome, with course map, assessments, and certificate.
Workshop Conversion
An in-person workshop rebuilt for self-paced delivery: narrated, accessible, packaged for any major learning system.
Volunteer Onboarding Academy
A short module on the role, the protocol, and a knowledge check, white-labeled for a library or nonprofit.
Board Onboarding Micro-Course
A short self-paced onboarding for new board members covering mission, bylaws, financial filings, and conflict-of-interest policy.
Plain-Language Orientation Companion
A new-member or new-employee orientation document rewritten for the reader who has thirty seconds.
Staff Onboarding for Small Teams
A short, branded onboarding for a team that does not have a training department. Variants available for new hires, members, program participants, and volunteers.
Course Digital Makeover
Course materials prepared for the artificial intelligence age: interactive, digital, audio, accessible, with guardrails and integration without bells and whistles. Quick turnaround.
Better Testing in the AI Age
Students can cheat on everything with chatbots now. Assessment design for any learning system that helps students focus, learn, and progress, and saves grading time.
AI Literacy Workshop for Staff
A workshop on what artificial intelligence actually does, what it fabricates, and where the lawsuits are.
Docent Training Micro-Course
Short modules for new docents: object list, tour script, and practice scenarios built from in-house scholarship.
Better Training Modules
Staff will not sit through boring training and learn anything. Cognitive design that is interactive, memorable, and short.
Pocket Curiosity
Patrons scan a code, pick a way of looking, and get a scholarly take on an object from a collection. Licensed to libraries and museums.
Interactive Mini-Readers for Texts
Short, accessible digital editions of texts built for general readers.
Fellowship and Grant Applications Without AI Slop
Potent and authentic storytelling in a world of fake AI slop and oceans of other applicants. Help from a successful grant-winning PhD from a big ten program. Stand out, get chosen.
Grad School Applications Without AI Slop
Personal statements and writing samples for the application.
Cover Letters and Resume Storytelling Without AI Slop
Job application materials that read like a person and not a template.
The Complaint Box
What is the most annoying, stupid, or dehumanizing thing about living in the big tech and AI age right now?
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Humanities Lab
Have you heard of Pandora's jar, Prometheus stealing fire, Daedalus and Icarus, the bronze giant Talos? Ancient stories and myths help us reflect on what happens when technology gets out of control.
I spent a decade as a Classical historian, reading texts in the dead languages of people who lived thousands of years ago. I teach mythology, ancient philosophy, and civilizations in a prison, shelters, colleges, and community spaces.
I am building online courses and interactive accessible readers on ancient texts at the same time as I bring that creative insight to my work in design, so we can face the AI age without losing what makes us human.
AI Policy
Provenance. Where did this come from, and who owns it? I don't use scraped art or cloned voices in my Open Educational work. When I use generated visuals, it's limited, intentional, and clearly documented. Every image, audio file, and text source carries a traceable chain of custody back to its origin — whether that's a museum's open-access collection, a public-domain archive, or a properly licensed dataset. Nothing scraped. Nothing obscured behind a model trained on unconsented work. If you ask where something came from, I can show you.
Veracity. Is this actually true? Language models are prone to invention — they fabricate sources, misattribute quotes, and present guesswork as fact. I don't pass that risk on. Every historical claim, citation, and quotation in my work is verified against a primary source. If it can't be substantiated, it doesn't make it in.
Accessibility. Can everyone use this? Every deliverable meets WCAG 2.2 AA standards — the current legal baseline in the U.S. That means readable contrast for low-vision users, alt text for every image, captions for every video, and a semantic structure that works with screen readers. Accessibility isn't an add-on; it's built in from the start.
Privacy. Who sees the user's data? Before anything goes live, I answer four questions in writing: What is collected? Who has access? How long is it retained? What happens if a user wants it deleted? I follow FERPA for student data, COPPA where minors are involved, and GDPR principles for anyone accessing from abroad. No ambiguity, no hidden flows.
Sensitivity. Does this cause harm? Content is reviewed for its potential impact across communities. Indigenous materials involve tribal consultation. LGBTQIA+ topics are grounded in expertise in gender and sexuality. This isn't a symbolic check — it's a baseline standard of respect for the people represented in the work.
Transparency. How was this made? Every project includes a production record suitable for trustees, boards, or skeptical stakeholders. It documents which AI tools were used, at what stage, which models were involved, and how the work was tested and delivered. If you're licensing the work, you deserve a clear account of how it was produced.
Security. What are the risks? AI expands the attack surface as much as it expands capability. I treat security as a core requirement, not a final checklist — reviewing data handling, access controls, and potential vulnerabilities before release. If there's risk, it's identified and addressed upfront, not discovered after the fact.
I am not an advocate for AI and not connected to any corporation or billionaire. I run a one-person independent design shop out of a house in Salem, Oregon, with an elderly cat named Titty and a PhD in ancient languages. I grew up without internet or phones, earned my education the hard way, with a three-hundred-page pen-and-pencil dissertation on two thousand years of scholarship across five languages and many archives. I spent a decade in construction and retail before I set foot in a college classroom as an instructor. I sell contracts to help teachers make their materials accessible to disabled students, and to help libraries build interactive events for digital audiences. I am a working-class musician and writer who loves art and nature.
Typical costs might be hundreds to thousands depending on scope. Simple one-page contract. Payments accepted via check, ACH, PayPal, Stripe.
Payment
Payments accepted via check, ACH, PayPal, or Stripe. Simple one-page contract. Typical costs run hundreds to thousands depending on scope.