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Brendon · 2026 portfolio

I build agentic systems for real businesses.

Agents, dashboards, headless commerce, ranking systems — production software that runs daily for hemp shops, painting crews, dispensaries, field-sales teams, and SEO operators.

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Agents

Production agents in real use

BMH retail ops

Daily inventory, order-state machine, and customer-comms agent for Big Moose Hemp. Runs unattended; flags edge cases to Slack.

AUTONOMOUS AGENT — field-sales dashboard

Magic-link Next.js dashboard + SMS dispatcher running as an autonomous agent for a field-sales rep (e.g. John Doe). Per-brand opt-in via AlpineIQ + Twilio, order parser, shipment tracking.

Let's Go Paint headless

Migrated a painting-services site to Next.js + headless commerce; agent drafts quotes from job photos and pushes approved estimates to clients.

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Before / After

Sites rebuilt without losing the rankings

cbd.restaurant — Headless Hemp & THCa E-Commerce Rebuild

Replaced a legacy BigCommerce storefront with a purpose-built Next.js headless e-commerce platform for hemp-derived CBD/THCa products. The rebuild emphasizes compliance-first design, dual-mode order fulfillment (card checkout for legal hemp/THCa; pay-on-delivery for future marijuana SKUs), real-time inventory, and multi-channel customer notifications (email/SMS/web-push). Achieves feature parity with BigCommerce while reducing compliance surface and enabling direct control over payment, fulfillment, and customer journeys.

  • 50 products live (6 hemp + 44 THCa)
  • 7,228 lines of TypeScript code
  • 16 Postgres tables, dual-mode fulfillment logic
  • 3 notification channels (email/SMS/push)

Big Moose Hemp: Wix Platform Prison to Headless Medusa

Big Moose Hemp migrated from a locked-in Wix storefront to a fully-owned headless architecture — Medusa 2.x commerce backend on Railway + Next.js 15 storefront on Vercel, live at new.bigmoosehemp.com. The rebuild was forced by a hard regulatory deadline: the November 12, 2026 federal hemp ban (P.L. 119-37) that outlaws ~86% of the current catalog, making Wix's V1 schema, deprecated APIs, and single payment rail a business blocker. A three-phase compliance strategy (Liquidation → Sunset → Post-ban) is baked into the schema so the cutoff is driven by per-SKU total-THC data, not a midnight content edit. The team shipped 551 TypeScript files across 229 commits with complete parity to legacy order/customer data (142 historical Wix orders materialized + a consent-stratified 23,924-contact archive), compliance automation (total-THC per SKU, state ship-block enforcement), real payment rails (Clover high-risk processor), an IMAP-verified transactional email + SMS chain, a live Medusa-backed mobile admin, and a 24/7 Slack-fed AI approval queue where agents draft and only the owner ships. The same backend that started as a survival migration is now the operating spine for the whole brand.

  • 229 commits from Apr 19 → Jun 30, 2026
  • 142 historical Wix orders + 16,881 customers migrated with consent
  • 551 source files (TS/TSX); 8 test suites
  • Live at new.bigmoosehemp.com (Vercel) + Railway backend

Porto Verde — a parked domain to a B2B cannabis-lab operating surface (plus a zero-downtime domain migration)

Porto Verde is a licensed Long Beach micro-processor and co-packer — extraction, co-pack, packaging, and METRC-compliant labeling for cannabis and hemp brands. It had no web presence: the domain sat on a registrar parking page and buyers found the lab by referral. Built from scratch on Next.js 15 — a facility hero shot on the real C1D1 floor, nine service deep-dives, an equipment-transparency page that names the actual CTM and FlexPackPRO machines, a compliance surface (21+ gate, METRC, Prop 65, COA positioning), and a quote funnel with drag-and-drop artwork upload — then shipped to production the same day. When the owner realized the domain was misspelled and bought the correct one, the entire stack — site, DNS, self-hosted email, SES, env — migrated to it with zero downtime, and the typo domain was left as a path-preserving redirect.

  • Registrar parked page → full Next.js 15 operating surface, live same day
  • 0 → 9 service deep-dives (distillate, resin, diamonds, THCA + 5 co-pack lines)
  • Quote funnel with drag-drop artwork upload (PDF/AI/PSD, up to 100 MB)
  • One-letter domain typo → 8 live systems migrated, zero downtime, old domain 308-redirects

Velcro.music — a record-label hero that actually swings

Rebuilt velcrowrecords.com — a 2,338-line single-file static site on Netlify — into velcro.music on Next.js 16. The signature chain-and-skull pendant used to be a flat image on a fixed CSS keyframe; now it swings on a real verlet pendulum through a drifting SF-fog band, with the skull's diamond eyes glinting at each apex. Under the hero: a typed product catalog, consent-first notifications, and a hardened header set — plus a per-link articulated-chain engine reconstructed from the single product photo.

  • Single-file 2,338-line Netlify/Snipcart site → Next.js 16 App Router on Vercel
  • Hero: fixed 4s CSS-keyframe swing → verlet pendulum + drifting SF-fog + diamond-eye glints, 60fps
  • Per-link articulated-chain engine reconstructed from one product photo — pixel-exact at rest
  • Hardened: CSP + HSTS + 5 more headers; products as Zod-validated records; reduced-motion fallback

WordPress → Next.js for a regional SEO leader

Took over the #1 organic site in its market — a 5.0-star Best-of-Southland SEO operator running on aging WordPress + Elementor. Migrated to Next.js without losing a single ranking, then added a client dashboard the legacy stack couldn't support.

  • 0% ranking drop across 600+ tracked keywords
  • 9× faster TTFB (1.8s → 200ms p75)
  • Client dashboard added (formerly unsupported)
  • Headless content pipeline (Notion → MDX)

Fuel1st — 2014 WordPress brochure to a 2026 Next.js operating surface

Fuel1st had been running on the same WordPress brochure since 2014, designed and maintained by an outside agency. The entire site was four nav links, a tagline, a quote, and a footer credit — roughly fifty words of copy. Rebuilt from scratch on Next.js 14 + Tailwind in a 43-hour sprint: six structured services, hero stats, self-hosted aviation photography, a four-source aviation news aggregator with a competitor filter, and three motion polish passes — all on operator-owned infrastructure, deployable in seconds.

  • ~50 words → multi-page operating surface
  • WordPress (2014, third-party agency) → Next.js 14 (operator-owned, 2026)
  • 0 services listed → 6 (Fuel Supply, Trip Support, Logistics, Flight Planning, Ground Handling, SAF)
  • 0 hero imagery → self-hosted aviation photography throughout

Ballair / Fuel First / 7Air — operating-group brochure + allowlist admin + federal bid agent

Stood up the digital footprint for a three-entity aviation operating group: Fuel First International (fueling + bunker, CAGE 77SM4), Ballair Aviation Holdings (Boeing 767F + holding entities), and 7Air Cargo (three 737-800SFs, FAA Part 121, acquired May 2026). The deliverable is three layers: a public brochure at ballairaviation.com, a hard-allowlist admin dashboard for the operator, and an Anthropic-backed federal-bid drafting agent that scouts SAM.gov on the operating-group's real CAGE/UEI and drafts compliant bid sections without ever inventing a capability or auto-submitting.

  • 3 federal entities under one ops surface
  • 28 SAM.gov keyword-scope categories — one-click into live searches
  • Drafting agent: 7 bid sections, Anthropic-backed, hard never-invent rules
  • Allowlist admin: zero signup surface, sessions in Postgres

BMH payment rails — Wix payments to a two-rail Medusa module with hard caps

Big Moose Hemp ran customer payments through WIX-PAY-PRO + Square. Hemp/CBD is a high-risk MID category and the federal hemp ban (P.L. 119-37, effective Nov 12 2026) accelerates the need to move off a stack that doesn't expose payment-policy controls. The rebuild ships a two-rail payment provider abstraction inside the BMH Medusa 2.x backend — Clover (card, capped at $250) via Global Payments Solutions ISO for the high-risk MID, and Aeropay (ACH) for any purchase over the cap and for the 50% deposit on bulk clone orders. Hard caps are enforced at three levels — admin, API, and storefront — so no path can bypass them.

  • 2 payment rails (Clover card + Aeropay ACH) under one Medusa module
  • Hard $250 card cap enforced at admin + API + storefront
  • 13-method contract surface across the two providers
  • Feature-flagged rail toggle (FEATURE_CLOVER_CARD_RAIL)

Buck Mountain Cannabis — buckmountaincannabis.com → buckmountain.farm

Brand restart on a new domain. The legacy site was a static brochure; the rebuild restructures the catalog around the actual sales channel — flower, rosin, extracts, trim, smalls, plus a pharma category that ships when its supply line is ready. Wires Nabis (wholesale), Metrc (batch compliance), and OgLife.app (QR rewards) into one storefront.

  • Domain cutover with 301s from buckmountaincannabis.com
  • Nabis wholesale API + Metrc batch compliance integrated
  • OgLife QR rewards wired in for cross-brand identity
  • Shared chat widget with BMH and LGP

Let's Go Paint — pottery brochure to Square-source-of-truth headless commerce

Seal Beach paint-your-own-pottery studio (1065 Pacific Coast Hwy). The legacy site was a brochure with limited booking. Rebuilt on the same headless stack as BMH and Buck Mountain — Next 15 storefront + Medusa 2.x backend — with Square as the catalog + payment source of truth so anything ringing through the POS lands in the storefront automatically. Multi-domain strategy (.com, .art, .space, .org) collapsed into one storefront with brand variants per host.

  • 4 owned domains → 1 storefront with brand variants
  • Square is catalog + payment source of truth
  • Klaviyo (email) + Shippo (fulfillment) + Synthflow (voice) + Plausible (analytics)
  • Phase 1 visual contract pinned to a static HTML reference

OgLife.app — one identity layer across a 17-domain portfolio

Each brand in the portfolio had its own opt-in, its own chat widget, its own customer record. A customer who liked two brands ended up as two strangers in two databases. OgLife.app is the cross-business identity + preferences + live-chat layer that sits between the brands and the customer — one opt-in, one preferences page, one inbox. Built on Cloudflare Workers + Durable Objects + Neon, with an embeddable 7KB chat widget that any brand storefront drops in.

  • 1 identity layer across 17 brand surfaces
  • 7KB embeddable chat widget
  • AI autoreply at 45s when no agent is online
  • Inquiry → push notification: <30 seconds

DJ Jackie J — bland WordPress to orchestrated revenue stream

Took over a 12-year wedding & event DJ's online presence — a half-built WordPress site, three Instagram handles she manually managed, inquiries that took 24+ hours to answer. Shipped a real marketing site, wired SMS opt-ins for repeat-booking, and stood up an agent backbone that posts ads, scrapes local OC event listings, and pushes inquiries to her phone the moment they land — so her brand keeps working while she's asleep.

  • 5★ across The Knot / WeddingWire / Thumbtack preserved through cutover
  • Inquiry → notification latency: 24h → <30s (push)
  • Bid submission flow: manual → draft-for-review agent
  • Live event-vendor scraping across OC public listings
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