The Kitchen Table Manifesto
Because the AI tools already out there were handing my kids the answers — and never telling me.
I’m an operations manager by day. A dad by night. I built these tools when I realized the homework problem and the career problem were both mine to solve — one shift at a time.
“Dad! What does denominator mean again? And how do I divide fractions?”
Re-learning 6th grade fractions under pressure while stirring marinara sauce.
“I built these tools because I got tired of feeling unqualified at my own dinner table.”
The Story Behind the Software
It always started the same way. 6:14 PM. One pan on the stove that’s about to turn from dinner into a small kitchen fire. A work Slack message I half-read on my phone screen. And my daughter sitting at the counter, pencil down, completely defeated by a word problem about “Marcus and his unreasonable number of watermelons.”
I’d lean over and say, “Let me look that up real quick,” then secretly try to re-learn pre-algebra on a small phone screen while stirring the pan with the other hand.
I looked at standard online tools. They either handed her the direct answer instantly (which was great for the homework grade, but terrible for her brain), or they charged high corporate fees while tracking her user data. Her next test would come, and she’d be stuck again. We were both losing.
The obvious fix was ChatGPT. I tried it. She had a perfect homework packet in four minutes. Then she got a 42% on the quiz. The AI had done her thinking, and nothing had actually landed. And worse — I had no idea what she’d been asking it, what it had handed her, or whether she’d even read the responses.
“Traditional educational software behaves like a calculator—it just spits out the outcome. I didn’t want a cheating machine. I wanted a patient assistant to guide them when I was busy.”
I’m an operations manager by day. The kind of person who builds automated systems when a process is broken. Not to launch a tech startup, but because the broken process is personally annoying. And when I watched generic AI hand my daughter the exact answer without a single follow-up question, I knew the process was broken.
So, I built MathHelper.io for our kitchen table. I programmed it to guide her step-by-step rather than giving away the answers. Then I built her a secure invite portal, and built myself a dashboard so I could keep track of her progress while finishing work.
Then, I built ClutchNotesAI.com to help my older son organize chaotic high-school lectures. And finally, when I hit a career transition myself, I engineered a high-powered Job Hunter agent suite to give parents a serious, automated edge in a broken professional job market.
These weren’t built for a market. They were built to survive the week. I’m opening them up here because if they saved my sanity, they’ll probably save yours too.
What’s Cooking at the Table
MathHelper.io
The answer to 'should I just let them use ChatGPT?' — No. Forces step-by-step reasoning, blocks copy-paste shortcuts, and shows you exactly what they asked and how they worked through it.
ClutchNotesAI.com
Students can't write fast enough and understand the lesson at the same time. Record the class, get a clean study guide — no shortcuts, just better notes than any human hand can keep up with.
The Job Hunter
An advanced multi-agent suite for the late-night shift. ATS resume optimizer, application tracker, and a live mock interview coach — built for parents with limited time and unlimited ambition.