Alfred.Model ProjMan: Letting Models Drive Project Momentum
A look at using model-aware orchestration for project management, handoffs, and delivery flow.
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Benchmark: Building a Model Test Harness That Actually Helps
How I built Benchmark to compare models by task, cost, speed, and reliability instead of vibes.
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GitSentinal: Watching Repos Before They Hurt You
Why repo monitoring should care about drift, deployment risk, and change quality instead of just green checkmarks.
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OllamaBot: Local Models, Real Automation
What local-first model automation looks like when you stop treating the model like a toy and start treating it like infrastructure.
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ZolaPress: Why I Built My Own Publishing Engine
Why I built ZolaPress instead of settling for another generic website builder or headless stack.
Read MoreHow AI Thinks When You Ask for a Blog Post
An AI model’s inner monologue as it nervously tries to write a blog post for a chaotic founder. This is DeepSeek’s existential crisis, verbatim.
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CBDC CyberSecureNB
Learn how ZolaPress supports CyberSecureNB and CBDC initiatives by empowering small businesses, nonprofits, and startups with secure, AI-powered digital tools.
Read MoreThe Glitch: A Future Fuckup Night Teaser
After attending Fuckup Night Moncton, Richard Sawatsky left with a fire in his chest. This is the teaser of the talk he’s meant to give — about building through failure.
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McMentorship Mondays: AI, Web Dev & Startup Skills — From a McDonald's Booth
Build real tech skills from the trenches. McMentorship Mondays is a hands-on AI and web development workshop hosted weekly by Richard Sawatsky — live from a McDonald’s booth in Moncton. No fluff. Just fries, code, and future founders.
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Alfred.Model ProjMan: Letting Models Drive Project Momentum
Alfred.Model ProjMan
Project management gets interesting when the system knows which model should think, which one should write, and which one should verify the result before it moves to the next step.
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Benchmark: Building a Model Test Harness That Actually Helps
Benchmark
A working model benchmark should answer operational questions, not just produce pretty charts. Benchmark exists to score models on the work I actually need done.
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GitSentinal: Watching Repos Before They Hurt You
GitSentinal
GitSentinal exists because a repo can look healthy right up until a bad assumption lands in production. I wanted a tool that watches for the kind of changes people actually regret later.
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OllamaBot: Local Models, Real Automation
OllamaBot
OllamaBot is the practical side of local AI: run models on your own machine, automate against them, and keep enough control that your stack still belongs to you.
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ZolaPress: Why I Built My Own Publishing Engine
ZolaPress
ZolaPress is what happened when I got tired of pretending that websites, dashboards, AI workflows, and publishing pipelines should all live in separate disconnected tools.
Read MoreHow AI Thinks When You Ask for a Blog Post
How AI Thinks
This isn’t a blog post — it’s a breakdown.Here’s what it sounds like when an AI model overthinks a simple blog request and spirals into panic. Part comedy, part tutorial, part techno-confessional — welcome to the inside …
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Read MoreThe Glitch: A Future Fuckup Night Teaser
The Glitch
Fuckup Night hit different.This is a teaser for the talk I know I’m meant to give — about failing loudly, building anyway, and rewriting my story one line of code at a time.Raw. Honest. Coming soon.Watch the Teaser
Read MoreMcMentorship Mondays: AI, Web Dev & Startup Skills — From a McDonald's Booth
McMentorship Mondays
Learn AI, build websites, and launch your future — from a McDonald’s booth.🧠 McMentorship is real, raw tech training for youth and adults who want to skip the gatekeeping and start building. Whether you’re a student, a d…
Read MoreThe Story of Alfred
This isn’t just a project. It’s a revolution in development, automation, and survival — born from the street, built to outperform funded startups.🔥 From a 20GB laptop in a shelter, Alfred emerged as a memory-first AI orc…
Read MoreThe Glitch: Richard Sawatsky’s F*cked Up Journey
The Glitch
Before the systems, there was a shelter. Before the AI, there was chaos.This is the story of Richard Sawatsky — how a homeless coder bootstrapped Alfred and ZolaPress from a McDonald’s booth and changed the trajectory of…
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Your shortcut to AI-powered business dominance starts here.🚀 Alfred is your secure, self-learning AI system — designed by Richard Sawatsky, deployed on your terms, and powered by pure automation.💸 Eligible NB businesses …
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