Why I'm Building Something Different in the AI Space

In 2024, I walked away from my 18-year career in hospital administration, including one of the most dedicated, resilient teams a Director of Operations could ever hope to work with at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Emergency Department.

I spent nearly two decades watching nurses, doctors, registration reps, and housekeepers give everything they had to care for sick children and their families.

We did it because we believed in service. We believed in impact. We believed in helping people. And even though my path has changed, that part of me hasn't.

The Shift Into AI

Over the last two years, I've watched AI evolve from a niche curiosity into a global force that is reshaping how we think, work, and create.

But here's what stood out to me: most AI tools today are reactive. They wait for you to push a button. They complete a task. And that's it. That's not enough.

Why World Models Inspired My Work

Recent AI research describes something called a world model, essentially an internal predictive simulator that helps a system understand how actions shape the environment (Zhao et al., 2025).arxiv.org/html/2508.09561v1

This means automation can and should become proactive, context-aware, and continuously improving. Not just a tool, but something closer to a partner.

Why I Built The AI Handyman

My goal is to help people and small businesses build workflows that don't just complete tasks. They learn, respond, and evolve. Systems that scale with you. Tools that actually improve the more you use them. Processes that start to feel less like technical overhead and more like how you naturally work.

"This isn't about hype. It's about building the next generation of intelligent, anticipatory systems that actually help people. Using technology in service of people."

The Bigger Vision: Building AI With a Global Perspective

One of the biggest gaps in agentic AI today is this: we're building world models using data from only a very small part of the world. The systems we call intelligent are shaped mostly by whoever is producing the most digital content, and that leaves enormous cultural, economic, linguistic, and geographic knowledge out of the model.

Anthony Bourdain spent his life traveling the world not just to talk about food, but to show people that the world is much bigger and richer than the perspective they already knew. He expanded global understanding by listening. That's the part of his mission that resonates deeply with me.

While I'm starting here in my home office in Southern Florida, my long-term vision is much bigger. I want to work with people from everywhere: different regions, industries, languages, and lived experiences, so that the tools we build don't just reflect a narrow slice of humanity, but the whole of it.

I don't have all the answers yet. I don't know exactly how to capture a true global world model yet. But I do know this:

"By connecting with as many creative, motivated, brilliant people as I can, we can build AI that becomes a force for connection, compassion, and equity, not just efficiency."

If this vision resonates with you, whether you're a creator, a business owner, or someone building the future of AI, this community is for you. The next decade of AI is going to be shaped by whoever shows up to help build it. Share your story and let's build something worth building.