The systems
Workbench
Every note on this site was learned on one of these. They're listed like the equipment
they are — what it does, what it's made of, whether it's earning. No slide-deck versions.
AUTOMOTIVE AI IN SERVICE
Automotive AI for the UK: full vehicle checks, an AI diagnostic engine grounded in a curated knowledge base, repair training, live OBD data and a mobile app. The flagship — and the system most of these notes were learned on.
- diagnosis engine + verifier
- vehicle data pipelines
- knowledge base grounding
- native mobile app
BUSINESS AI IN SERVICE
Business AI platform: technical SEO suite, trend detection, four-stage content pipeline, WordPress auto-publishing and social distribution — orchestrated across seven LLM providers with an agent fleet.
- 7-provider model routing
- content pipeline
- agent fleet + action queue
- human-in-the-loop approvals
THE TRADE IN SERVICE
The bench work that pays for all of this: Mercedes SBC brake units and ECUs repaired at component level. Twenty years of fault-finding discipline — the methodology every AI system here inherits.
- component-level repair
- bench diagnostics
- OBD/CAN tooling
IN-HOUSE AGENTS PRIVATE FLEET
Hermes & Dexter
The agents that run the shop: a diagnostic gateway that talks to real vehicles over CAN, and an assistant wired into my own infrastructure, my own rules, my own data. Not products — colleagues. They don't get a public URL; they get a column.
- diagnostic gateway + CAN relay
- LLM diagnosis routing
- workshop automation
IRON EARNING ITS KEEP
The Local AI Stack
GPU server (8× RTX 3090, EPYC, 256GB), Proxmox virtualisation, local models, image generation pipelines, and a small fleet of mini PCs. Built like workshop equipment — every machine bought for a job, every job logged.
- 8× RTX 3090 inference + imaging
- local model serving
- overnight batch pipelines