Real projects, done right.
Every job I take on, I treat like it's my own business on the line — clean, reliable, and built to last. Here are a couple of recent ones.
From cable chaos to a clean, reliable setup
A local business had years of equipment and cabling piled on a desk — power bricks, routers, and cords everywhere, hard to manage and easy to knock loose. I rebuilt the whole thing into an organized, wall-mounted setup on battery backup, and got them onto dependable high-speed internet while I was at it.
- Rebuilt a tangle of cabling into a clean, organized layout
- Mounted the gear neatly, on a UPS battery backup
- Upgraded to reliable high-speed internet
- Wi-Fi and network tuned so every device stays connected
The machine I run the business on
I spec and build the computers I put in front of clients, so it would be strange not to do the same for myself. This is the workstation everything at Level Up Technologies runs on — client sites, service reports, invoices, backups, remote sessions. Nothing in it was chosen to win a benchmark. It was chosen to still be working in five years.
- AMD Ryzen 9 7900X, 12 cores, running at 4.70 GHz
- 64 GB of DDR5 at 6000 MHz
- 360mm liquid cooling, so it doesn’t throttle under load
- Three 27-inch 1440p displays
- Cable management done properly, because I’d be embarrassed otherwise
Most business computers aren’t built, they’re bought — whatever was on sale, in whatever case it came in, with cooling sized for the cheapest possible configuration. Then they get slow in two years and everyone assumes that’s just how computers are. It isn’t. It’s what happens when nobody plans it.
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The software I run the business on
Five days ago my invoices were written by hand, one at a time, with no template and no numbering. Today a customer taps Pay and the invoice marks itself paid before I’ve set the phone down. I built the whole thing — because nothing I could buy fit how the shop actually works.
- Job reports with photos, opened from a link — no app, no attachment
- Drop-off authorization the customer signs on their own phone
- Invoices generated from the job and linked back to it
- Card payments that reconcile themselves, with no re-typing
- No monthly software fees, running on my own domain
Most small businesses run on a stack of subscriptions that almost fit, plus a spreadsheet holding the rest together. That gap is where the time goes — and it is exactly the gap worth building into.
Read the build log →
More project stories coming soon as I wrap them up.
