Together we have already made exciting progress, largely thanks to analysis from Claude Code.

By loading in Google Ads numbers from their existing agency, we found large savings caused by inefficient targeting and administration fees that were too high. It was a case where management had placed complete trust in the agency, and I don't think I'll find savings like these as easily in most companies.

We moved Google Ads in-house and cut the cost considerably, with no loss of quality. My fee came to 25% of the annual savings, thanks to the high efficiency of using AI. Win-win!

My goal with Athena is to save a life.

That's all there is to it.

The idea came from my brother's wife's brother, who told me straight away which app I should build after I said I build apps.

He had been called by an old lady who had fallen and lain on the bathroom floor for several days. His surname starts with A, so he was at the top of her list.

He said "you should build an alarm that makes checking in a natural part of everyday life" - and I agreed.

Not all older people use an alarm, but enough of them do for it to help. Versions of this kind of app already exist, but they can be improved in many ways.

He owns an undetermined half - an idea is an idea - but I have priced it at server cost only, so we will each earn about 1.80 NOK a month per family using it. I would have liked to make the app free, but I want to be able to reach as many people as possible without having to subsidise server costs.

I have long-term visions for making it bigger and giving it many legs for branding, but version 1, with the look above, is almost ready.

I got it into my head that I would tune my mother's grand piano, and I was curious about how it worked.

I asked Claude about the technical side of it. My intuition was that "if a human can hear it, a microphone should be able to hear the same".

I wanted to test Fable 5.1, which had just come out, and gave it the heavy task of building this app. It turned out very well.

Grok build 4.7 came out right after, scoring best of all in music theory, and it found a few adjustments.

This is my main project, and I have put more work into it than into anything before.

I have a "product first" philosophy where I keep asking myself one question along the way

"If we could freeze time for a million years, how would we build this with today's technology?"

For example, I have separate versions based on hardware. Apps often say "it's too much work to support the old phones", but I believe this app will do good and I want to reach as many people as possible, so I have rebuilt key features to work across hardware, from iPhone 8 to 18 Pro Max, without degrading the experience for people with modern phones - which makes this a lot of work across iPhone and Android.

I'm not looking for investors, but I am looking for consulting work to give me runway, and I have become very skilled with iPhone, the differences between models and just about every feature imaginable.

The goal is to build the best app in the history of the world for what it does, and I believe I'm doing it.

This isn't an "Uber" or "Instagram" kind of big app, nothing revolutionary, but it is big to work on.

An acquaintance came to me with a case where a friend of his had had some of his accounts hacked, had received unsettling messages, and was very worried about surveillance and further hacking.

I checked many systems and networks for threats, with a lot of help from a system I built with Claude Code, using tools like LuLu and KnockKnock to produce reports run through Claude Code, plus a tool of my own called ACHILLES.

Once security falls, everything feels like a threat, and part of the job was to listen, teach the client about possible attacks, and build new systems from the ground up.

We set up new devices together and created new accounts using secure methods.

Proton, Starlink, Lockdown Mode, dedicated Revolut cards, several phone numbers, several email addresses, physical password management.

We went through operational security in the settings and permissions on iPhone.

It was a gradual process, where step by step we created accounts to return to a normal and safe everyday life.

It was important that the client could keep using the systems they were used to, so we did not set up things like Tails and Monero.

I still prepared a Tails USB stick for the client, partly as a symbolic gesture of doing everything I could.

Because of the nature of the assignment, I keep the client's identity hidden.

Interested in this kind of work?

I really like cases like this, because they let me bring calm to people's everyday lives, which is meaningful.

It also makes me something of an activist when it comes to the right to digital privacy.