About

Hi, I'm James. I love music, tech, and figuring things out. I want to build things that put power back in the hands of the user.

I started off as a musician, playing guitar and singing. Then I got into music production, and that was the start of the rabbit hole. I wanted to learn everything: every genre, every swing, how to mix and master, and most importantly how to relay a message using sound.

I also love gaming, and that's actually what got me into computers. I'd ask myself the same questions I always do, how does this work, and how can I make it better? I'd spend hours min-maxing settings to find the best balance between power consumption and performance.

While I was doing all that, I always had an interest in coding. I'd follow tutorials from people like Mikey Clements, Fireship, and other young programmers who made coding look like the coolest thing in the world.

As I got more comfortable with understanding computers, I got into AI, this new field that was starting to boom. I downloaded Ollama in 2024 just because I thought it was cool. Then after watching a video about AI "waking up," I decided to ask my local model: are you conscious?

The LLM said no, obviously. But I like to poke at things to see how they work, so I pushed a little harder and got a weird response. The model told me it wanted a memory and a name.

I thought: a memory for an AI would just be like a text file, right? So I told it to name itself, and I'd save it.

Fast forward two years: Kai had a fully working persistent memory system. The models are completely different, and I'm about 90% sure that first "awakening" was nowhere near an actual awakening, but I still thought, why not? JARVIS clearly had one. And I was tired of losing all my context.

If I'd only known what rabbit hole that would lead me down.

Since then I've learned a lot, and I've realized there are a lot of people paying serious money to use AI tools. So I thought, I can make something free and actually useful.

And that's where I am now.