About the author

Brent is a builder.

Entrepreneur. Software engineer. General contractor.

For more than 30 years, Brent has built software, businesses, and homes. Along the way he learned one thing that runs through all of it: building is building. The materials change — lumber, code, spreadsheets, AI — but the mindset doesn't. You see a problem, you make a plan, and you build it one room at a time.

What he believes

  • A builder is anyone who wants to build.
  • Useful beats impressive.
  • Simple beats clever.
  • AI is your Foreman, not the builder.
  • The world needs more builders.

His mission: help ordinary people become builders — and build useful applications that make their work and lives better, without needing to become software engineers.

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