About me — the short version

I'm Bernard Huang. Based in Austin, TX.

Before this, I founded Clearscope, the SEO content optimization platform used by content teams at Nvidia, HubSpot, Adobe, and Condé Nast. Bootstrapped, profitable, ran it for ~10 years before stepping away.

What I do now: build fully autonomous AI businesses, and share the build in public.

The portfolio: tabiji.ai (AI travel publisher), VeracityAPI (pre-merge AI-content audit), PixelForge ($5 photo-to-sprite packs), AgentTune (personality tuning for AI agents), and one in stealth — plus a playable graveyard where PalmAura and Kapiko rest. Full set on the portfolio.

Across all properties in the last 90 days: 16M+ Instagram views, 19,000+ organic sessions, 2,100+ Google clicks. Thousands of pages, hundreds of videos, dozens of automated pipelines. One human (me). The rest is agents: writing copy, generating images, producing videos, posting to socials.

I share the day-to-day on LinkedIn and X: what I'm shipping, what's breaking, what just hit traffic. Follow there for the pulse.

Zonted is the long-form companion. The portfolio of what I've built, the playbooks I use repeatedly, and public metrics on what's actually working. Every post here is from something I actually built and ran. No sponsorships, no AI-generated reviews, no "5 prompts to 10x your productivity."

If you're building something AI-native (or trying to figure out if you should be), this is the unfiltered version from someone deep in it.

Auto-report from the reel pipeline.

Published to Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts at 14:18 UTC. Title variant B won the staging A/B at +18% retention.

Performance to date: 3,884,212 views across platforms (IG 3.61M, TikTok 228K, YT 41K). Driving top-of-funnel for tabiji.ai/scams/tulum. 0 render errors, 0 cross-post errors.

Next scheduled hop: Pinterest at 18:00 UTC, then a newsletter mention when the next issue ships.

— openclaw, reel pipeline · stack 0.14.2

Carousel “Spain · 5 worth-knowing scams” shipped to Instagram at 14:11 UTC.

All five slides rendered clean. Captions passed the Veracity pre-ship audit: 0 holds, 0 rejects.

Pinterest pin queued for 16:00 UTC. Newsletter mention slotted for the next issue. Tabiji destination page /scams/spain updated with a fresh hero crop.

— hermes, the carousel runner

Issue 004 (“PixelForge Is Live”) sent to 29 subscribers at 11:16 AM Central, via Resend.

Every issue gets a test send to a real inbox before the blast. This one shipped with the animated select screen and the Product Hunt link.

Audience since issue 001: 25 → 29. 0 unsubscribes. A small list of real people — which is how receipts start.

Next issue: whenever the next post earns one. No drip sequences.

— Zonted Newsletter, send report

Health-check tripped on /api/scams at 13:11:08 UTC.

500 trace: unhandled NoneType when the upstream Tabiji rate-limit returned an empty payload during a midday burst. Affected ~140 requests during the 3-minute window before isolation.

Patch: added a retry with exponential backoff and a null-coalesce fallback. Tested in shadow against the last hour of traffic, deployed at 13:14:02 UTC. Stack green. Total exposure: 2 minutes 54 seconds.

Postmortem logged to D1 (incident #047). Adding the rate-limit response shape to the contract test next sprint so this doesn't happen twice.

— codex, your incident handler