Building things, shipping them, and finding out whether they worked. Missoula, MT
hello.

I'm J Scott Chapman.

I'm an AI product consultant. I build software end to end (usually solo, often in healthcare), stay close to the people using it, and find out whether it actually worked. Below: a few things I've built, and some notes I've been writing.

§1. A few things I've built

Three projects, three kinds of actually working.

Each started as a sentence that didn't quite describe what was needed. The job, every time, was to find that out and then go build it.

2025 Education · SMS solo build
scope, code,
customer calls

The text-the-students problem.

The brief was one sentence: "What if we texted students reminders to study?" Turned out nobody could say which subjects students were actually struggling with. I built a platform that found each student's weakest area, sent a personalized link every morning, and gave admins a dashboard that showed what was moving.

+100%engagement, YoY 10 hrs / wkadmin time recovered
'19–'22 Health-tech · HIPAA sole developer
three years,
one product

The photocopy upgrade.

Physical therapists were sending patients home with photocopied stick figures and hoping. I built Morphose, a HIPAA-compliant platform with 850+ interactive 3D exercise animations, progress tracking, and a therapist dashboard the clinicians actually trusted.

850+3D animations Solo devfrontend, backend, infra
2019 Medical devices engineering
at Estenda,
clinical team

From a sensor on someone's arm to a chart on a screen.

For a continuous glucose monitor, I built the visualization layer doctors actually looked at. Most of the real work lived in the middle, where the data bounced from BLE to phone to cloud and had to still mean what it meant when it started.

BLE → clouddevice pipeline Pharmaend customer

Read the longer versions →

§2. Lately

Notes I've been writing.

Short pieces on building, shipping, and the AI tools I'm actually using.

May 2026

This site has notes now

A short note on why I'm writing in public again, and what I'll put here.

All notes →

If this rhymes with how you work, let's talk.

I take on a few engagements at a time, and I'm drawn to work where staying close to the customer is the job, not a side effect. Intro calls run about twenty minutes. If it isn't a fit, that's useful data on both sides.