Everyone wants more from AI. We start by asking what you actually need.
Das Wenige und das Wesentliche
Curious about AI but not sure what's real? That's the right instinct.
Yes, anyone can prompt ChatGPT or spin up an app with Claude Code. But knowing which problem is worth solving, which solution will still work in six months, and which ideas to walk away from — that takes experience, not a subscription. We consult, coach, and build. Three rules guide everything we do:
Work
What does that look like in practice? Each of these started with a question nobody was answering well. Some are for clients, some for the region I live in. All of them are live and running.
What's really happening around the property you're looking at? Enter any address and see development applications, contamination, venue licences, and noise sources within 500m. What listing sites and conveyancers don't show you.
Is Google actually sending you customers? A 3-minute email every Sunday tells you what's working, what isn't, and what to do next. No dashboards. No jargon.
What actually replaces coal jobs in the Hunter? Weekly tracking of green job demand, classified against international taxonomies. The only source measuring what employers are actually hiring for, not what politicians promise.
How do you get found by AI, not just Google? AgentReady works quietly underneath your existing site so ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity understand your business and send customers direct.
How do you create quality content at scale without losing your voice? A platform that generates what's worth publishing and catches what isn't.
Got a question nobody seems to be answering? I'd genuinely like to hear it.
Tell me about it →Quality comes from reduction. Three decades in technology taught me which details matter. Remove the noise. Add the clarity.Reiner Gärtner · Aiden King · Newcastle
Writing
A prototype can appear in minutes. But the distance between a demo and something that works reliably, week after week, is where most projects die. These posts are about that distance.
The Hunter Valley is Australia's largest coal-to-renewables transition zone. Everyone talks about green jobs. I decided to count them.
How a real estate decision in Newcastle led to Newy Vibes — a property intelligence tool that shows what's really happening around any address.
How a dad who knows two knots built a fishing conditions app for Newcastle — and quietly turned it into an AI visibility experiment.
How a frustration with dashboard culture led to Weekly Google Insights — a tool that tells you what to do, not what to look at.
Under the hood
I built everything above. These I built for myself. They run on my Mac Mini, never see a public server, and solve problems I got tired of solving by hand. Same thinking, different audience: me.
A swing trading scanner for the ASX that mostly tells me to do nothing — and that's exactly why it works.
How a single button on my iPhone captures voice memos and routes them to blogs, notes, journals, tasks, or calendar entries — all processed locally.
A CLI tool that turns calendar entries into invoices, tracks payments, and generates tax reports — no AI required.
A personal finance tool that watches my inbox, reads my receipts, and sorts them for tax — so I can go for a walk instead.
Services
Idea ping-pong, strategy sessions, and hands-on proof-of-concept work. We sit with you, find the essential problem, and build a working pilot. Not a slide deck.
Upskilling your team on AI tools, marketing intelligence, and content workflows. Practical sessions focused on what you'll actually use Monday morning.
Not every problem needs an app. Sometimes it's one automation, one insight, one fix that changes everything. We find it and build it.
No pitch deck. No 12-week proposal. Just an honest conversation about what you're trying to figure out. Sometimes that's all it takes.
Write me an emailI read every one. Usually reply the same day.
Every company has an origin story. Ours involves an imaginary employee, seven languages, and a question we kept asking in every meeting.
Tell me what you're working on, what's frustrating you, or what you wish existed. I'll tell you honestly whether I can help, and if I can't, I'll point you somewhere useful.
info@aidenking.com.auReiner Gärtner · Newcastle, Australia