i build things
i can't stop
thinking about.

— The Plumb Mark. Build with intention.

Skyler. Builder, operator, and slow-cooking writer. Small, opinionated products and working notes. Made with intention, on my own time.

Now.

Updated Jun 19 · 2026
01
Pushing Coverly toward its first real pilot
No-show prediction for restaurants. Talking to operators. Building the version that earns the seat at the table.
02
Naming the reservation economics category
Published the thesis. Earnest and Posted are the next two products in the cluster. Both in the workshop, both quiet.
03
Writing more, in public
Aiming for one substantial note per week. The Notes feed below is where they'll land.
04
Rereading Marcus Aurelius. Reading Bruce Lee.
Striking Thoughts is doing things to me. Meditations remains the bedrock.
05
Family first, always
Bennett is one. Victoria is the reason any of this works. Everything else stacks below this line.

Building.

These are mine. Built on nights and weekends, framed as creative practice rather than commerce. Some are live. Some are in beta. Some are ideas I haven't been able to put down. None of them are for hire. None of them are a pitch. They're just mine.

01 / Pilot
Coverly.

AI-first no-show prediction for restaurants. Scores every reservation, intervenes before the seat goes dark. Built for operators who know exactly what a missed cover costs them.

coverly
02 / Concept
Earnest.

The intervention layer. Takes Coverly's prediction and turns it into action. Smart, friction-tuned deposit collection that protects the seat without damaging the brand. Operators set the policy once.

in the workshop
03 / Concept
Posted.

Operational intelligence for restaurants. Posted up, watching the floor when you can't be there. Daily anomalies, surfaced.

in the workshop

Notes.

The kind of writing that doesn't fit on LinkedIn. Working notes from inside hospitality data, the side-project workshop, and whatever else I'm thinking about hard enough to put words around. Four notes in. More coming.

Jun 19 · 2026
Reservation economics: why hospitality is missing a category that should already exist
Hospitality
9 min
Jun 18 · 2026
The PREDICT framework: what most CRM teams get wrong about signal
Framework
8 min
Jun 18 · 2026
Why no-show prediction is the hardest interesting problem in hospitality
Hospitality
7 min
Jun 18 · 2026
Operator and builder: how I think about being on both sides of the table
Practice
5 min

Reading.

— Now

Striking Thoughts
Bruce Lee
Reading
The Lean Startup (rereading)
Eric Ries
Rereading
Working Backwards
Colin Bryar, Bill Carr
On deck

— Influences

Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Bedrock
The Four Agreements
don Miguel Ruiz
Daily
Built to Last
Jim Collins, Jerry Porras
Career
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Operating

The builder.

— Where I'm from

Florida by way of the South. Twelve years inside hospitality, restaurants, and travel data. Operator background. Builder by patient inclination. Family man first.

— What I'm good at

Reading data for what it's actually saying. Translating between operators and engineers. Building things on nights and weekends. Holding two ideas in mind at the same time.

— What I value

Faith, family, finances, fitness. Slow compounding over fast wins. Work you can sign your name to. Saying things clearly. Building things that should exist.

— What I'm not

A consultant. A pitcher. Someone with a thing to sell. The notes are free. The work is for its own sake. If you want to know more, the writing is the surface area.