Carson Cherveny.

Behind the line

The twelve tools cover accounting, filing, earnings, admin, a Salesforce chat interface, and research assignment. 17 accounts provisioned, 16 signed in — 11 people have run it ten or more times and 9 were active in the last 30 days.

Of 1,940 total runs, about 744 are mine. The other ~1,200 belong to everyone else, which is the number that actually says whether the thing works.

Built with Claude Code. What stays mine is the system design, the data model, and where a model is allowed to influence a financial decision — a boundary enforced by an eval harness rather than by good intentions.

Behind the line

There was no application. I wrote to the CEO and the head of community directly with a plan for what a Vanderbilt chapter would look like, and the head of community has been the ongoing contact since.

Vanderbilt is the pilot campus — the first one — and the program expands from there.

Behind the line

Color analysis is the thing where someone tells you you're a “winter” and should wear silver, not gold. A consultant charges around $300 for it. Callume measures it from your photos — the vision pipeline, the storefront, and payments are all mine.

Pinterest went zero to 41,100 impressions and 26,200 viewers in 30 days, at 5.3% engagement with 518 saves. Twenty-nine of those became site visits. That gap is the whole problem, and it's why the landing page got torn down and rebuilt.

Outreach runs on a CRM I wrote: 60 writers, 6.7% replies against a 1–3% cold benchmark, and one signed partnership test. No revenue yet — distribution is the open problem, and it's harder than the building was.

Behind the line

Three summers of it. Every single customer came from Nextdoor, Facebook, or a referral — no paid advertising, ever.

Materials stayed near $30 a unit through better sourcing and process changes. That's gross margin: my own labor isn't in the $30, and anyone who asks about the number deserves to hear that before they ask.

Behind the line

A Gastamo Group restaurant in Washington Park. Shifts rotated by label — greet/seat/takeout, bus/reset, close, float/sidework — so the job was whatever the floor needed that night, posted a week at a time.

It ran concurrently with the Sanity build and Callume's launch: days at the desk, nights and weekends on the floor. Nothing on this page happened in a cleared calendar.

NOVA, in full

NOVA runs on targeted memory reactivation — five haptic motors and bone-conduction audio, with heart-rate, temperature, and movement sensors fused into an on-device model (NOVAFlow) that predicts sleep-stage transitions and fires cues at the right moment.

The business case: $349 of hardware plus $8/month, at 51% and 80% gross margin, asking $2.33M for 18%. That figure was the ask in the pitch — not money raised.

Behind the line

Two jobs at once: run the build team, and go get the money that lets it exist. The $6,500+ in corporate sponsorship funded four consecutive competition seasons and the mentorship program underneath them.

The build side is the shop side — chassis, ball and frisbee launchers, and the rest, taken from CAD through machining and assembly to the field, on a six-week build clock that never moves.

What Adventure Camp actually is

Adam's Camp is a Colorado non-profit; Adventure Camp is its sleep-away program for campers with mild to moderate intellectual and developmental disabilities. Sessions run five nights, Sunday to Friday, at the YMCA of the Rockies' Snow Mountain Ranch in Granby, six times a summer. Ages nine and up, with no upper limit — campers split into four teams, two under 18 and two for adults.

Days are archery, canoeing, rafting, zip-lining, hiking, tubing, and a talent show, spilling out into Grand Lake and Winter Park; the YMCA of the Rockies and the National Sports Center for the Disabled supply the venue and the adaptive programming.

A counselor's job is narrower than that list: make five days of it possible for one person, the same person, all week.

Before Vanderbilt

Regis Jesuit High School — Denver, CO, May 2026. GPA 4.40/4.0, ACT 35 composite.

Math Department Award, top of a class of roughly 200. Loyola Award twice — given for leadership, integrity, and service, 1 of 10 recipients.

At Camp Foley: the Golden Paddle, awarded 24 times in the camp's 70-year history, and the Anchor Award, 1 of 2 from a staff of 130+.

On the wording

The word carrying the weight up there is production, not the tooling. The Sanity platform runs against live payout data, so anything a model touches sits behind an eval harness that decides what it is allowed to influence.

Most of the actual skill is drawing that boundary — deciding which calls stay with a person — which is a different thing from having used the tools a lot.