portfolio · atlanta, ga · 2026
Founder, builder, marketer, actor, producer.
Two production SaaS products, a film studio, and a decade of making things people watch. Every product here was designed, built, shipped, and grown by one person. Every number below traces to a repository, a database export, or a live page.
Brands pay per view. Creators feature the product inside content they were already making, add a campaign hashtag, and Bounty_OS finds the post, counts the views, and pays out through Stripe. No follower minimum, no scripts, no ad reads.
creators are paid on complete blocks
at a $1,000 per-million rate
the partial block is the margin
the machine · 1
A campaign hashtag is the only handshake. Posts are discovered and scraped across TikTok and Instagram, ownership of 373 social accounts was verified automatically, and a five-tier velocity scheduler decides how often each post is re-measured, documented at roughly 49% fewer API calls.
the machine · 2
A Gaussian naive-Bayes bot detector written in pure PL/pgSQL, with sigmoid calibration and self-retraining population statistics. Review is importance-sampled by creator reputation, and reputation itself is a trigger: +0.05 per approval, −0.10 per rejection, so it cannot drift from outcomes.
the machine · 3
Escrow and payouts through Stripe Connect, a resumable nine-step campaign-finalization saga, integer cents end to end, and a double-entry invariant checked continuously: total_earned = pending + available + paid_out. Optimistic locks and a circuit breaker stand between a bad batch and a double release.
the machine · 4
Lifecycle email runs on a Thompson-sampling bandit over 85 variants, with a hand-rolled Beta sampler in an edge function. Landing pages run epsilon-greedy. The top variants clicked at 2 to 2.5× the blended rate.
the machine · 5
41 documentation pages in a Windows-95 explorer, an earnings calculator, a public campaign directory, six comparison pages, ten niche landing pages, a 5% referral program, a blog, a live investor pitch page, prerendering, JSON-LD, and an llms.txt so the assistants can read it too.
traction · production database, 28 jun 2026
the build · repository, 20 sep 2026
Moodboards, shot lists, lookbooks, scripts, and schedules on one infinite canvas, edited live by everyone on the production. Built by a film studio for its own work, then opened up: a public API, its own OAuth server, and an MCP server so an AI assistant can build a board for you.
engineering · 1
Yjs CRDTs over PartyKit, one Durable Object per board at the edge. Every connection is authenticated with a Supabase JWT and checked against row-level security before it joins; viewers are read-only at the protocol level. Every update is appended to a per-board op log, compacted hourly into R2, and an in-room anomaly detector watches for mass deletes.
engineering · 2
50 REST endpoints, 18 OAuth 2.1 endpoints, 9 webhook events, and an MCP server with 33 tools and 3 prompts, published to the official MCP Registry as com.soleilpictures/clusters and to npm as soleil-clusters-mcp. The hosted endpoint signs you in over OAuth, so there is no token to paste.
engineering · 3
Capacitor shells for iOS and Android wrap the same Vite build. And Scout: text photos, clips, voice notes, PDFs, or links to a number and they land, arranged, on a canvas; voice notes are transcribed and photos keep their capture time. It runs on Fly.io because iMessage needs gRPC, which a Worker cannot speak.
the build · repository, 20 sep 2026
in production
There should never be a final product on a theater screen, TV screen, or even phone screen that was created by AI.
andrew, in filmplatforms’ industry spotlight · 27 jul 2026 · read it ↗
Soleil Pictures develops original features and television. It is also where Clusters came from: the tool was built to run the studio’s own productions, then offered to everyone else’s.
on paper · read the work
Deep Dive
short film script · final draft, 10 jul 2025 · 4 pages
written by Christopher Perez and Andrew Conklin
read the script ↗
Deep Dive
shot list · 4 pages
boards, lens, angle, movement and gear per shot
open the shot list ↗
Lost Time
onyx scene storyboard · 8 pages
dialogue and action beside every frame
open the storyboard ↗
Both products exist because the funnel was already familiar: recruit creators, verify them, nudge them into posting, measure the post. That was the job first.
Directed influencer and social campaigns for artist releases with a three-to-four-person team. One fully documented TikTok creator campaign: 48 creator videos, 956,650 views, $7,750 spend, $0.0081 per view, best creator at $0.0016. Seeded releases through a 14.6-million-follower Instagram meme-page pool with per-post view, engagement, and ROI tracking. Took an artist from 20K to 250K Spotify monthly listeners in six months.
Ever see the “They did surgery on a grape” meme? That was me. Grew an Instagram page from 0 to 35K followers organically. Produced music-production content that earned 1M+ organic TikTok views. Managed pages totalling 550K+ followers.
Organic-growth and content strategy for two Atlanta production businesses, and trained their teams on content workflows and performance optimisation.
Documented Atlanta’s entertainment scene on assignment.
Built a 5K+ community, ran online tournaments for hundreds of participants, and managed branding and operations for semi-professional teams in Rocket League, Rainbow Six Siege, and CS:GO.
georgia entertainment
Cut to pitch a potential client: the kind of video I make.
watch on youtube ↗Acting is where the products came from: the studio needed tools, and the person on set built them. Working actor since 2023, training in Chubbuck, Meisner, and at Michelle Danner’s studio.
no love lost · lead · capped films
| title | role | production |
|---|---|---|
| Where It Hurts | Lead | SCAD |
| Papercut Boi | Lead | SCAD |
| No Love Lost | Lead | Capped Films |
| Noise Complaint | Lead atlanta horror film festival | Ion Films Studios |
| Pumpkin | Lead | Georgia State University |
| De-Escalation | Lead | SCAD |
| Lifeline | Supporting buried alive film fest | made for the Buried Alive Film Fest |
| TGWTGH | Supporting | Ram In A Bush Productions |
| Model UN | Supporting | Evil Twin Digital |
| Still Here | Supporting | Georgia State University |
| Devour | Day player | Digital Thunderdome Studios |
uncredited · on set
Marvel’s Thunderbolts. DC’s Man of Tomorrow. Tulsa King. Will Trent. Southern Bastards. Gorilla Grodd.
among others · sets of that size, from the inside
training
on the page
Not products. Practice, curiosity, and the occasional two-day sprint that turned into eighteen thousand lines.
simulation · rust, python, c++
An emergent-behaviour civilisation simulator where every citizen is an autonomous agent with memory and interests, and the player is the president. Fourteen Rust crates (24,912 lines, 275 tests, 90 systems), a PyTorch pipeline that trains tiny agent brains, and an Unreal Engine 5 client. Then re-implemented as a 78-commit Cataclysm: DDA fork that runs the city in spectator mode with policy dials.
game · luau, roblox
A PvP rock-collection game: mining, refinement with a wager feel, fusion trade-ups, theft, auto-miners for offline progression, procedurally generated mythical rocks players get to name. 18,107 lines of Luau across 39 server modules, 126 tests, a 20-section design spec, and a Rojo, Wally, StyLua, Selene toolchain.
automation · python + claude
Researches investor candidates, de-duplicates them, scores and ranks them by configurable weights, writes them to a sheet, builds a digest, and verifies employment, on a launchd schedule. 53 tests.
prototype · next.js
The February 2025 prototype of what became Bounty_OS: brands fund a budget for views, creators onboard and choose how to get paid. 103 commits and a five-step campaign wizard, a year before the company existed.
data · cloudflare workers + d1
A movie, credit, and person database on Cloudflare D1 with a search front end on soleilpictures.com, fed by a TMDb crew scraper. Built to answer one studio question: who worked on the films we love.
personal · one html file
A 4,067-line Classic Mac OS desktop for rating films: TMDb search, IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic pulled into a weighted public score, a watchlist with streaming providers, a rating-distribution chart, a startup chime, and flying toasters when it idles. Lives on this site, behind a password.
this page
One HTML file, no framework, no build step, like the rest of this site. The sticky showcases, count-ups, morph, and reveals are about two hundred lines of vanilla JavaScript, and all of it switches off under prefers-reduced-motion.
