You drive. I steer. In a few sessions you'll have a working tool for your home, family, career or business, and you'll know how to build the next one yourself.
75 minutes, live online. 50 seats. No coding experience needed. No sales pressure.
Five years ago, a custom tool meant hiring a developer for months. Today you can describe what you want and have something working in an afternoon. Everything people want usually falls into one of five categories:
"Tell me when something happens."
A campsite opens up, a price drops, a permit gets approved, a new listing appears.
"Sum up what came in."
A Sunday-night "what's due this week" from all those school emails.
"Show me where things stand."
Household spending, a parent's medications, home maintenance.
"Get this from A to B, cleaned up."
Bank exports into a spreadsheet with the account numbers stripped out.
"Answer my question, my way."
"Can we afford this?" Comparing contractor quotes. A meal plan from what's in the fridge.
What do you copy and paste every week? What emails do you open just to find one fact? What do you check over and over to see if it changed? That's usually your first app.
Tutorials show you someone else's project. Here you build yours, with someone who has spent 30 years learning where software goes wrong.
We work on the thing that actually eats your time, not a generic demo.
AI never logs into your bank or email. It builds a small tool that you run, which passes along only what you choose to share.
AI sounds just as confident when it's wrong. You'll learn what it can't see, and how to check it.
Sometimes the right answer is a spreadsheet, or nothing at all. I'll tell you before you spend money, not after.
There are two ways to use AI: try it (find out fast, cheaply) and trust it (something you can rely on). Most disasters come from mixing them up. I'll walk you from one to the other.
See what's possible, where it goes wrong, and walk through real builds step by step. Leave with your own list of ideas.
Your first session. We pin down what should be different, what has to be true, and whether it's worth building at all.
You drive the AI; I steer. Every session ends with a readiness card that shows exactly where your tool stands.
Maintain it yourself, or have me monitor and fix it monthly. Either way, you own every account and every line.
Like a good teacher, the goal is to make you not need me. Some people need two sessions, some need six. You decide, and I'll always tell you honestly whether your tool is ready to rely on.
Your first session is discovery, online. After it, you get an honest estimate of how many sessions your tool will take, and you choose online or in person from then on. Short fixes for existing clients: 1 hour, $199.
First-session guarantee: if it isn't worth it to you, I'll refund it in full.
I monitor your tool, fix it when banks or websites change things, and check in every quarter on whether it's still worth paying for. If it isn't, I'll tell you.
Founding clients: my first 10 clients get $299 two-hour sessions for six months. Use code FOUNDING10 when you book. In exchange, I ask for a short testimonial and permission to share an anonymized version of what we built.
| Group workshopFor an HOA, church, club or team, up to 20 people. Everyone leaves with something working. | from $1,500 |
| Private ClientA full year: discovery and up to six builds, everything maintained, quarterly reviews, priority scheduling. | Contact me |
Own a business? AI for a company is different work, with different stakes. See thoriumdev.com.
You pay any tool costs (Google, hosting, AI subscriptions) directly, in accounts you own. I never resell them.
I'm Mike Coon, and I live here in Tampa Bay. I've been building software for almost thirty years: data platforms, large-scale systems, and AI products. I've led engineering teams and co-founded three companies.
Most of my work today isn't writing code. It's helping people figure out what's worth building before they spend money on it. A company once asked me to build them an AI system. After a week of testing, the right answer was to build nothing and fix their sales process first. That saved them months.
I'd like to bring that same honesty to my neighbors.
I also run a small software consultancy, Thorium Development Group. This is separate: it's for people who want to build something of their own.
"AI can build it. Deciding what's worth building, and knowing when to trust it, is still on you. That's what I teach."
No. You'll describe what you want in plain English. The skill you'll learn is saying it clearly and checking the result, not programming.
No. We build a small tool that runs in an account you own. It pulls only what you choose and strips out things like account numbers before AI ever sees anything.
A laptop (Mac or Windows), an internet connection, and an idea, or just a frustration. We'll turn it into an idea in the intro.
Most personal tools take two to five. After your first session you'll get an honest estimate, and you can stop whenever you feel confident.
Yes. Your first session is online so we can get started quickly. After that, you choose: online, or in person around Tampa Bay at a library study room or your home (a $50 travel fee applies for home visits).
Cancel or reschedule at least 24 hours ahead for a full refund or a new time. Inside 24 hours, you get one free reschedule. And if your first session isn't worth it to you, tell me within 7 days and I'll refund it in full.
Every tool we build sends you an alert when something goes wrong. You can book a one-hour fix session, or have me keep it running for a monthly fee.
Public apps with sign-ups or payments, app store apps, or anything that handles other people's sensitive data. Those need a different kind of project. Ask me and I'll point you the right way.
Come find out. The intro is free, it's 75 minutes, and seats are limited.