Founder of Shorebreak Co. I build software that pays attention. Three products — SteadyKit, Lila, and Tiny — each designed to notice on the user's behalf, not wait to be asked. Every product ships with an exit door. The app's purpose isn't to keep you.
A 180-day iOS companion for anxiety. A 179-skill library spanning ERP, ACT, and CBT, with belt progression earned by skill proficiency, not calendar time. Sage (the AI companion) validates and reflects — never reassures or fixes. The app's job is to make itself irrelevant to your nervous system. SteadyKit ends — your dependence on the app for managing anxiety.
One brand, two surfaces. Lila: Life OS is a native iOS productivity app — a generative working-memory home screen produced by nightly LLM-driven consolidation over a custom episodic/semantic memory layer with source-ID receipts on every surfaced item. Lila Core is the open-source, MIT-licensed persistent-operator runtime that powers it: a headless Claude Agent SDK runtime with model routing (Sonnet for shaping, Haiku for classification), scheduled cognition, and forward-compatible Postgres (pgvector-ready). Same runtime serves the iOS client and the open-source SDK use case. Lila ends — having to be your own attention layer.
A SwiftUI habit tracker built on BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits method — anchor, tiny behavior, celebration, shrink. Not a streak counter. A scaffold that comes down once the behavior is load-bearing on its own. Tiny ends — when habits become automatic.
I'm a founder, a classroom teacher, and an IT consultant — and those things aren't as disconnected as they sound. I've spent 8+ years in K–12 classrooms teaching multilingual learners and building educational tools at mattwalker.education. I run an IT consulting practice serving 50+ clients across Northern Virginia. And I run Shorebreak Co., a software studio building AI software that pays attention.
Most software waits for you. It stores what you file, retrieves what you search, generates what you ask. It's responsive in the literal sense — it responds. None of it notices. I build the opposite — software that pays attention.
The three things aren't as separate as they sound. Teaching is product design with the user in the room. Consulting is change management at small scale. Building is both, without the meetings.