A fiddly job eats part of every week

Jobs that eat part of every week

Timetables, packing lists, reports, the spreadsheet everyone's scared to touch. These are often the most useful things I build, because they hand back hours every week to someone who'd rather be doing their actual job.

I start from how you do it now, keep what works, and automate the boring part. When a decision really needs a person, the tool stops and asks rather than guessing.

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Stories

Real jobs, what was wrong and what I did.

Scheduling · constraint solvingA piano teacher's timetableTwenty-four students, two campuses, a fifteen-minute walk between them, and a school calendar that never sits still.

A food co-op's weekly packingBoxDivvyEvery week a food co-op turns a spreadsheet of orders into four sheets of paper that tell volunteers what goes in which box.

Radio monitoring · a bit lateThe Kyle & Jackie O reportsI built a machine to listen to a breakfast radio show so you didn't have to. It was seven weeks old when the show ended.

TinnyGo

Ride and boat sharing for Dangar Island and Brooklyn: 129 people signed up by August 2026.

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Sound like you?

Tell me what you’ve got and what’s in the way. I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help.

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