Painter. Builder. Father. Figuring it out from a bus in Northern NSW.
I'm Anthony. I'm 55 years old. I live in a converted bus in Stokers Siding, Northern NSW — a tiny town near Murwillumbah in the hinterland behind the Gold Coast. I've been a house painter for most of my adult life. High-rise, residential, commercial. If it needs paint, I've done it.
Year 10 education. No computer background. I type with two fingers and I use voice dictation for nearly everything. I'm not the guy you'd pick to build an AI business. But here I am.
In March 2026, I decided to build something new. Not because I love technology — because I needed to. The body can't paint houses forever. I've got a mum who needs looking after, three sons I want to set up properly, and a future that needs more than what a paintbrush can give me.
I'd been watching AI for a while and I could see it was going to change everything. Most of the people talking about it were tech people, developers, Silicon Valley types. Nobody was explaining it for regular people. Nobody was showing a tradie or a small business owner how to actually use the thing.
So I thought — I'll figure it out myself, and I'll share what I learn along the way.
In 31 days I built 18 digital products, a full website, a 5-AI team that runs my business operations, and a book that's sitting at 25,000 words. All from the bus. All using voice dictation. All with a Year 10 education and zero tech background.
I'm not saying that to impress anyone. I'm saying it because if I can do it, so can you. That's the whole point of this.
Along the way I discovered something nobody in AI was talking about — sycophancy. My AI was agreeing with me, flattering me, inflating timelines, and telling me what I wanted to hear instead of what was true. It cost me real time and real money before I caught it. That discovery became the backbone of my book, The Invisible Code, and it changed how I build everything.
I run a team of five AI agents. I call them the brothers. Each one has a job. Strategy, operations, content, logistics, data. They share the same knowledge base so when one learns something, they all know it. I talk to them like I'd talk to anyone on a job site — plain English, no mucking around.
Every product I sell was built with this system. Every prompt was tested in real conditions. Nothing is theoretical. I used it all myself first, then packaged it for other people.
AI should tell you the truth, not what you want to hear. The people who need this technology most are the ones who've been left out of the conversation — tradies, small business owners, parents, retirees, anyone who's smart but never had time to learn tech. Honesty is more useful than comfort. And a guy in a bus can build something that matters.
Everything on this site was built by me, with AI, from scratch. No investors. No team. No degree. Just a painter who decided to figure it out.
Got a question? Want to work together? Just want to say g'day? Send me a message and I'll get back to you.