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App AI NZ
A network of small, real apps for curious humans and the AI agents that work with them. Make things, learn things, ship things.
Builder Profile
The product catalog is backed by deep engineering work across AI, infrastructure, graphics, web systems, and applied research.
Experience
- Founder and builder of an applied AI product ecosystem across coding agents, model gateways, media generation, search, speech, data analysis, games, and infrastructure.
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Microsoft, Founding Machine Learning Engineer at Compose.ai YC W21, and Image Processing / ML Engineer at Canva.
- Earlier engineering across Fairfax Media, Weta Digital Motion R&D, .nz Registry Services, Infoxchange, 99designs, Kiwiplan, and the University of Auckland.
Interests
- Machine learning, acceleration, CUDA/Triton kernels, model serving, embeddings, interpretability, and AI/human interaction.
- Search, data analytics, scientific tooling, big data systems, graphics, VFX, games, web systems, security, automation, and testing.
The network
Production apps powering the App AI NZ stack — agents, inference, generation, and the platforms behind them.
Codex Infinity
Autonomous coding-agent platform
Cloud fleet orchestration, GitHub integration, streamed agent sessions, CI repair loops, and multi-model coding workflows.
OpenPaths
OpenAI-compatible model gateway
Provider routing across chat, image, video, music, speech, transcription, and embeddings with reasoning controls and unified API shape.
CuteDSL
AI acceleration and kernels
Custom CUDA/Triton kernels, fused model pipelines, Chronos-2 acceleration, and an API surface for fast AI inference and training.
Netwrck
AI media and community network
Social AI community with chatbots, stories, generated art, voices, and agent-style entertainment experiences.
eBank.nz Art Generator
AI art generation and editing
HD diffusion outputs, prompt discovery, style workflows, image editing, and subscription-backed generation capacity.
Text Generator
Unified AI API and model stack
Text, speech, vision, code generation, prompt tooling, OCR/caption enrichment, and self-hostable model-serving infrastructure.
Apps in the network
Live tools, games, and research toys. Sign in once through App AI NZ — credits and identity move with you.
DictatorFlow
Speech control and dictation
Desktop and browser dictation with hotkey recording, local GPU Parakeet ONNX transcription, cloud fallback, command mode, and transcript history.
Open
SimplexGen
3D generation and editing
Go-backed 3D generation app with Vite frontend, local asset indexing, mesh tools, generation queues, billing, and R2 storage.
Open
Ethereal Storm
Go/Ebiten action game
Twin-stick bullet hell with co-op, procedural terrain, wave survival, bosses, spell combinations, progression, and dynamic audio.
Open
Ring.nz
Voice chat with AI friends
Voice and product communication experiments for real-time AI conversations and friend-like AI interaction.
Open
GPUBrain
1ms instant GPU search
GPU-accelerated agent memory — sub-millisecond semantic + keyword retrieval at scale, MCP tools, knowledge graph links, and CLI workflows.
Open
Papers
Research search engine
Search engine for papers, code, methods, datasets, and evals with semantic search, crawler jobs, GPU acceleration, and CUDA optimization.
Open
Stock Prediction
Market forecasting research
Auto-research and RL trading experiments over Alpaca/Binance, selector evaluation, Chronos-style forecasting, and realistic portfolio probes.
Helix
AI data analyst
AI data scientist product for interpreting datasets, generating insights, and automating reporting with model-backed analysis workflows.
Open
ExperimentFlow
Online learning and RL platform
Neural contextual bandits, policy optimization, and continual personalization that keeps improving in production.
Open
Hires.nz
Recruitment and marketplace experiments
Recruitment/product experiments in the SimplexGen workspace with deployed web assets and Go-backed services.
Open source
The bones of the network — fork it, run your own, send a PR.
Stable Diffusion Server
Flux/SDXL, ControlNet, inpainting, R2/GCS storage, FastAPI, and Gradio tooling for production image generation.
GPUBrain Search Engine
Open-source engine behind GPUBrain — Postgres-backed semantic search, BM25, RRF fusion, MCP server, REST API, and CLI.
Long tail
Games, tools, and side products — all still live, still shipping.
Make something useful.
Got an idea, a research question, or a half-built project that needs a push?
Drop your email — happy to compare notes.
Email Us
[email protected]Base
Auckland, New Zealand