An AI analysis of my own practice · still forming

David Bain & Incrementic

Twenty years of building things, and I've spent the last few weeks asking AI to make sense of all of it — what I sell, what I've built, where the evidence is thin. It read everything public about me and produced the analysis below. It is confident, it could only see what I'd published, and it has already been wrong thirteen times over — and it cannot see where I'm taking this next. That's why it's here rather than in a drawer. I'd like some human perspective before I act on it.

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12
Products and productised services
5
Brand systems shipped as live sites
12+
Production AI skills authored
12+
Public web properties, at last count

Before you push back — ten minutes of audio or thirteen of reading gets you the fuller picture this page can only summarize.

Audio overview 10 min

An AI's podcast-style take on the analysis below, not a recording of me — if you'd rather listen than read.

The long version 7pp · ~13 min read

Capability evidence, the portfolio matrix, and every open question in full.

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What it says I sell

Digital ProductsDesign, validate and build. The strongest-evidenced line — and now with a fixed-price front door in App in a Day.
Web DevelopmentWebflow and Plone; the long-running client base, some of it running since 2016.
Fractional CTOBest revenue-per-hour and best fit for a senior principal — and the thinnest public evidence.
Training & EventsTwo decades of teaching behind it, and the only line that scales past my own hours.
Brand systemsNot one of the four I advertise — but five shipped, as living sites rather than PDFs. Incrementic, QRTick, Afforrd, Particular Presence, TheLeap.

What it says I own

Events & venues platform

QRTickOnline ticketing with QR entry. Proven — live 2026 inventory across dance, sport and gala events.
QRTick PassMembership and physical access. Live at Tye Fitness in St Elizabeth and L.I.F.E Academy — neither of which the analysis could see.
FestiiaFestival management. Built in 2026 for the Liguanea (say: Lig-gah-knee) Art Festival; first edition delivered, one customer.
ProjectionsAnalytics inside the QRTick ecosystem; not listed as a product.
Stream appLaunching this week: paywalled 45-minute livestreams for audiences from dozens to a few hundred, paid to a Jamaican bank account. The platform's remote-attendance arm.

Bookings & payments — a quick experiment

Expert.com.jm"Get Booked. Get Paid." Scheduling and JMD payments for independent professionals; onboarding early customers this month. Priced in public from day one.
AI Receptionist"Nuh miss a call." The Expert booking flow shipped as an agent skill — a product whose interface is an AI skill, installable on Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and 30+ agents.

Productised services

App in a Day$100 scoping session, then a working app built in one day for $1,000 flat. The methodology sold at a fixed price.
Steady DrummerWebflow development delivered on subscription rather than as projects.

Games — Incrementic Game Studio

TwinbecilesDigital multiplayer word game — "great minds think alike." The shipped title at Incrementic Game Studio; two further concepts sit behind it as early experiments awaiting polish and playtesting.
Speaky SpokeyPhysical card game, 100 Jamaican words. $29.99–$75.00.

Partnerships & standalone

AfforrdHealth insurance comparison, selection and signup, built with Baymac. "International health plans that fit your monthly budget."
RenewStickerJamaica vehicle registration renewal.

Where it says the evidence is strongest

Design sprintsIDB "Creative Tech Lab"; convened the online Momentum Tiny Conference during lockdown — Jake Knapp, creator of the Design Sprint, was among the presenters; sprint training for eGov.
Public sectorMOHW COVID-19 portals; Go.Data and ICD-11 (WHO-authored software) implemented for Jamaica's Ministry of Health, not a direct WHO engagement; UNEP; DBJ.
TeachingCARIMAC programme lead; CXC Chief Examiner; three editions of WebCraftConf.
Long-cycle platformsPlone for the Texas Bar's Business Law Section since 2017, UNEP and several other clients; Plone Conference speaker.
AI skill authoringA dozen-plus production skills — payments, accounting, auth, encryption, Shape & Ship — plus four published on skills.sh for Claude Code, Cursor and other agents.
Brand systemsFive live brand sites. The Incrementic one ships CSS, Tailwind and JSON tokens plus machine-readable data for coding agents.
Unix automationTwenty-five years of daily scripting — Prosoft, LPI, RHCSA, a chapter in The Official Ubuntu Book, and the shell I still live in.

What it keeps telling me to do

  1. Name the platform. Three products, one buyer, one login, modular pricing.
  2. Publish what already exists. The skills library (four are on skills.sh already — nothing links to them), the brand systems, the customers, Afforrd. Built, blocked on nothing, invisible.
  3. Prune before growing. Every line terminates in one person — though that is exactly the assumption I'm now testing.
  4. Price in public. It said nothing was priced but the card game. App in a Day and Expert.com.jm already do — so the real question is why the platform products still don't.
What it admits it cannot see Revenue by line for the last 24 months, and my hours by line for one representative quarter. It says almost everything else follows from those two numbers.

Thirteen things it missed, and a human had to put back

Worth saying plainly: none of these were stupid mistakes. They were things I had never published. The analysis was as good as my public record, which turns out to be the actual finding.

Jake Knapp & the conferencesIt knew WebCraftConf 2018–19 from the CV. It missed the 2020 edition, the still-live webcraft.com.jm, and the online tiny conference we put together during lockdown — where Jake Knapp, creator of the Design Sprint methodology I facilitate, was among the presenters.
The stream appLaunching this week: paywalled livestreams paid to Jamaican bank accounts — the events platform's remote arm. A whole direction the public record never hinted at.
Expert.com.jmA whole booking-and-payments platform, priced in public, onboarding early customers this month — with an AI receptionist that ships as an agent skill. The clearest sign of where this is going, and invisible to the analysis.
The published skillsIt concluded none of the AI skills were public. Four already are — on skills.sh, installable by anyone. Even I under-publicise this stuff, which rather proves the point.
The Linux yearsFiled a 2014 certificate as the end of the story and called it "a supporting capability." I've scripted and automated on Unix every working day for twenty-five years — which is the substrate the agent work runs on.
The brand systemsMissed entirely. Five live brand sites — Incrementic, QRTick, Afforrd, Particular Presence, TheLeap — none of them mentioned on the site that sells the work.
App in a DayNever saw it. Told me to start pricing in public while I was already selling a $1,000 one-day build off a $100 scoping session.
QRTick Pass customersRecorded as "built, no named customers." Tye Fitness and L.I.F.E Academy are both live on it — behind a login the analysis couldn't reach.
AfforrdAn insurance comparison platform built with Baymac. Invisible: the site is password-protected and credits neither partner.
The game studioFound one card game and filed it under "standalone." Missed that there is a studio behind it, with digital titles too.
Festiia's ageRead a sixteen-year-old festival as a sixteen-year customer relationship. Flagship, long-standing. Built this year, one edition delivered.
The podcastsCounted as live surfaces competing for attention. They're paused — which changes how thin the attention really is.
Business intelligenceFramed as an open strategic fork. It isn't; I've retired that positioning. The analysis kept re-litigating a settled call.

The one thing it can't factor in yet

I'm betting the capacity ceiling moves

Every version of this analysis reaches the same conclusion: everything terminates in one person, so cut before you grow. That has been true for twenty years. It is becoming less true.

I've started running real work through AI agents and coding tools, and the change is not incremental. As I write this there is a report being drafted, three products being coded and correspondence being composed — at the same time, by me. The next step is to go all in on it.

It helps that I've spent twenty-five years scripting and automating on Unix. Orchestrating agents is shell, filesystem, processes and version control — I can read what they did and fix it when they're wrong, which is where most people stall.

The goal is to spend less time as the person doing the work and more as the one orchestrating it. If that holds, the breadth this analysis reads as over-extension may turn out to be the point rather than the problem. If it doesn't hold, the analysis is right and I should be cutting. That is the single most consequential open question here, and it is the one an outside view would help most with.

Where would you push back?

An analysis built from public evidence is confident in exactly the places it should be least confident. It can see what I published; it cannot see what I earn, what I turned down, what a client actually said, what I've quietly stopped doing — or, as it turns out, whatever I shipped last month.

If you've worked with me, hired me, been taught by me, or just have a view — the useful thing isn't agreement. It's the correction.

Send me a correction Book twenty minutes
The full analysis: Conversation Starter, 7pp. Assembled from public properties and 2024 CVs, then corrected by hand. Last revised 3 August 2026.