I build in the open. Sometimes the site talks back.
Open-source maintainer, founder of Solvely, and Senior Manager, CRM at Youth Enrichment Brands. By day, I build HubSpot apps, integrations, and lifecycle automation across four franchise brands. Around that, I build tools for agents, contribute to the communities around them, and see how far an idea can go.
My personal site is also an experiment: live GitHub activity lights up an infinity loop, a model rewrites my About from what I'm shipping, and the page gets stranger the longer you stay. Agent sessions build and deploy it; I approve what ships. See the source.
ClawOS · An OS with an agent at the controls
An experimental Arch-based OS with OpenClaw as its primary agent interface. A real agent has edited and deployed runtime code from inside a fresh VM, with checkpointed deployment, file-level rollback, and conversation continuity tested.
Public, experimental, and unreleased. Verified in VMs only. Follow the build.
| Project | The idea |
|---|---|
| Tidebroker | Connect OpenClaw to the right Google Workspace account while keeping credentials in an isolated worker. Every operation has an exact account binding; Calendar changes and Gmail sends require approval. |
| Quorum | Give models a room to disagree. Multiple AI providers debate, critique, and vote, then synthesize an answer with a minority report. Available through a CLI and MCP server. |
| SpecIt | Describe your project once. An adaptive terminal interview turns it into a structured .spec file you can export to different AI coding tools. |
- OpenClaw — Volunteer maintainer. Recent merged work includes unified iOS chat and voice, clearer composer controls, and Workboard improvements. I also review PRs, onboard contributors, and build QA evidence infrastructure: a gallery, repeatable scenarios, and CI smoke checks. My contributions.
- Open GSD — Community admin and maintainer, from the original get-shit-done community into Open GSD. Work across gsd-core, gsd-pi, and gsd-browser spans browser automation, MCP, release tooling, and replayable evidence. Browser work.
I like ambitious experiments and fixes someone else can reproduce. If you're working on agent tooling, open source, or a stubborn integration, say hi.
colin.place · Solvely · @colinsolvely · LinkedIn · hello@colin.place
