One engineer. Twenty years. Three years of agents.
Who I am.
I've been writing software since 2006. The last three years, mostly agents: Q-Price for a real estate decision that saved $48K, Coach Helix for real-time health coaching, Seshat for prediction harnesses with measurable lift. I live in the Bay Area with my family.
What I'm building.
Helix Agent is an open-source Python framework with HIPAA primitives built in — audit logging, field-level encryption, RBAC, PHI-aware tool calling, BAA-aware vendor catalogs. Forked from Hermes (Nous Research), which is well-architected and MIT-licensed.
Two products run on it today: Bavo (an AI patient advocate that fights insurance to approve GLP-1 medications) and Coach Helix (a real-time health and DNA agent). Both are full HIPAA-scope; both force the framework to be real, not theoretical.
Later, a hosted version — Helix Cloud— adds BAAs, multi-region deployment, and audit-report generation. Same code as the OSS framework, managed deployment. That's the revenue model, modeled on Turso and Supabase.
Why solo.
Most agent frameworks are generic because they're built by committees that need to accommodate everyone. Helix is opinionated because one person is making every call — and that's the point. Niche over scale.
I'll stay solo (or two-person) as long as it ships. Series A consideration is on the table only when hosted revenue and Enterprise pipeline justify it — not earlier.
Five principles I work by.
- 01.Honesty about where things stand beats vaporware claims.
- 02.Production-tested patterns earn their way into the framework — not the other way around.
- 03.Opinionated defaults beat configurable everything.
- 04.Compliance is engineering, not marketing.
- 05.Solo and deliberate beats a roster of juniors with a senior-shaped pitch.
What's next.
Right now I'm building privately inside Bavo and Coach Helix. A private alpha opens for a few outside engineers in about 3–6 months. The public open-source release lands in roughly 6–12 months. The full timeline is on the home page roadmap.