Projects

Web and mobile apps I have built for campus workflows, everyday interests, and family use. Project links lead to the application or a walkthrough.

App Store

Independently built and shipped iOS apps. Three are live on the App Store right now.

AI-powered habit building · Available on iOS · v1.4.1

Resolution Companion

An iPhone app for identity-based habit change: define who you're becoming, complete small daily actions, and review progress with an AI coach. Version 1.4.1 is now live on the App Store.

Current social card from resolutioncompanion.com, captured September 8, 2026. The site also shows Today, Journey, Plan, and Coach screens from version 1.4.

  • Identity-based plans, not streak counts
  • One small habit at a time, with a two-minute version of every action
  • AI Coach: build your starting plan in two steps, then chat-based check-ins
  • Journey calendar with direct habit editing and recovery for interrupted replies
  • Plans and progress stay on the device

Independent race-day analysis · Available on iOS · v1.0.2 · Bing Crosby fall meet ready Nov 6–29

Horse Racing Companion

An independent iPhone app for Del Mar race days: one pick per race with the reasons, every horse's estimated win chance, and a saved record of each final pick beside the official result. Version 1.0.2 adds the fall Bing Crosby meet schedule and a Pool money card that shows exotic-pool prices beside the pick.

The app's launch banner from the public app site, horseracingcompanion.com.

  • One pick per race: Win, Show, or a three-horse Trifecta box
  • Estimated win chance for every horse in the race
  • Odds, scratches, and post times rechecked until just before post
  • Final picks saved before post and kept beside official results
  • Summer record: 47 of 105 final picks matched (44.8%) across 13 tracked cards
  • Pool money card: exotic-pool prices beside the pick — information only, never a bet slip
  • Fall Bing Crosby meet, November 6–29, included in the season pass

Sports group experience · Live on the App Store · Fall 2026

Steel City Gameday

A private iPhone app for Steelers fans: invite-only Crews share game-day chat, pregame picks, timed live polls, and season-long standings. Now live on the App Store for the 2026 season.

Screens from the public app site, steelcitygameday.com, captured September 8, 2026.

  • Invite-only Crews — no public feed
  • Pregame picks, editable until kickoff and private until they lock
  • Timed Flash Picks while the game is live
  • Season standings, receipts, and quarter races
  • The Wire: Steelers headlines from original publishers, refreshed every 15 minutes

Campus tools

Applications and prototypes for campus workflows, student and visitor services, document preparation, and AI planning.

Student services · Web and mobile prototypes

Student Experience

A student-experience prototype that brings academics, money, campus life, and services into one web portal, alongside a mobile adaptation of UC San Diego Campus Mobile.

Live web prototype captured September 7, 2026. Student records shown are the application’s built-in sample data.

  • Daily priorities and next steps
  • Academic and financial views
  • Synthetic student scenarios
  • Companion mobile prototype

Visitor services · Web prototype · walkthrough

Passports Visitor Management

A campus visitor-management prototype with a location-based check-in entry point for passport services.

Live visitor check-in entry page captured September 7, 2026.

  • Location-based check-in
  • Campus service entry page
  • Visitor-facing web interface
  • Employee dashboard entry

Service-desk identity verification · Restricted web prototype

TritonVerify

A service-desk prototype for organizing remote identity verification into scoped sessions, email challenges, policy checks, and audit records.

Captured from the running local app on September 7, 2026. The session form is empty and the staff directory is disconnected.

  • Scoped verification sessions
  • Email-link challenges
  • Policy checks and escalation
  • Audit records

Voice interviews · Private web app · walkthrough

Process Discovery / Fable

A voice-interview platform that collects descriptions of administrative work and organizes them into an evidence-backed backlog of possible automation projects.

Cropped from the running local app on September 7, 2026. This is the built-in administrative-workflow template; no staff interviews are loaded.

  • Configurable interview templates
  • Consent and interview flow
  • Evidence-backed opportunity backlog
  • Themes and review reports

Autonomous meeting coordination · Live assistant · email-based

TritonAI Meeting Scheduler

A scheduling assistant built with TritonAI that handles meeting coordination by email: it checks my calendar, negotiates times with attendees on its own, and books the agreed meeting with a Zoom link.

Captured from the live scheduler page on brettcpollak.com, October 4, 2026.

  • Email-first coordination on existing threads
  • Reads my Exchange calendar and proposes real availability
  • Negotiates directly with attendees without copying me on every exchange
  • Books the meeting with a Zoom link once everyone agrees
  • Asks me when details are unclear; brings me back in after three unsuccessful rounds

AI usage planning · Public web app · planning model

TritonAI Token Budget Planner

An interactive web app for exploring staff AI usage and cost scenarios. Adjust cloud and on-premises routing, growth, onboarding, and contingency assumptions to see how they affect a fiscal-year forecast. The model uses a July 2026 baseline; projections are planning estimates.

  • Cloud and on-premises routing scenarios
  • Growth and staff onboarding controls
  • Monthly usage and cost forecasts
  • Adjustable contingency assumptions

Accessibility and compliance · Available online

PDF Accessibility Remediator

Automated accessibility checks and remediation for UC San Diego PDFs. Runs 17+ checks across 9 compliance categories and reduces remediation time from hours to minutes with built-in evidence packs.

  • 17+ automated checks
  • WCAG 2.1 AA validation
  • Evidence packs
  • TritonAI Developer API foundation

Academic workflow · Available online

Dissertation Formatting Agent

Validates doctoral dissertations and master's theses against 84 UC San Diego GEPA formatting rules across 13 categories. Auto-corrects common issues and separates results into Fixed For You, Action Required, and Please Verify.

  • 84 GEPA rules checked
  • 13 formatting categories
  • 17+ auto-corrections
  • Accessibility checks

Academic workflow · Available online

BioBib Formatter

Turns a faculty CV into a draft UC San Diego Academic Biography and Bibliography document. Breaks CVs into review parts, routes section work through TritonAI, and produces a downloadable Word file.

  • 20-part section review
  • Model-routed UC San Diego TritonAI review
  • BioBib-compliant Word output
  • Conversion recovery links

Campus community · Available online

AI Use Case Meeting

A full-stack session management platform for a biweekly AI knowledge-sharing forum at UC San Diego. Handles presenter submissions, agenda generation, calendar sync, and recording archives.

  • Automated session scheduling
  • Presenter submission workflow
  • MediaSpace recording archive
  • Admin dashboard

Personal apps

Apps and websites for everyday interests and family use. Private projects have public walkthroughs.

Fantasy football · Private iOS app · walkthrough

Numbers Game HQ

A private iOS app for managing a fantasy-football team, with lineup, waiver, trade, and standings views plus an assistant that can work with league context.

Actual iOS simulator capture from September 5, 2026. The QA session uses test players and values, not a live league.

  • Lineup and roster views
  • Waiver and trade workflows
  • League-aware questions
  • Background processing and notifications

Family organization · Private web app · walkthrough

School Brief

A private family dashboard that brings assignments, grade reports, and selected school notices into one place through read-only collectors.

Cropped from the running app on September 7, 2026, with no student data connected. Counts and lists show the empty state.

  • Assignment overview
  • Grade-report context
  • Selected school notices
  • Private parent access

Housing research · Public web app

Rock Hill Property Radar

A web app for comparing housing options in Rock Hill, South Carolina. It brings listing sources, rental evidence, and adjustable planning assumptions into one place, with dated research and explicit gaps where facts still need checking.

  • Source-linked property comparisons
  • Adjustable cost and rental scenarios
  • Dated research snapshots
  • Unknowns kept visible for follow-up

College recruiting · Public website

Cason Pollak. Track & Field Recruiting Profile

A collegiate athletic recruiting website for Cason Pollak (Class of 2027), a track and field athlete from Del Norte High School. It includes personal bests, race film, season progression charts, a conference points projector, and a college fit matrix for six programs.

  • Personal bests & athletic résumé
  • Race film with meet-by-meet context
  • Season progression charts (100m, HJ, LJ, 4x100)
  • Conference Points Projector tool
  • College Fit Matrix (6 target programs)
  • Academic profile (4.02 W GPA)

College recruiting · Private · walkthrough

Cason Recruiting CRM

The private operations backend behind Cason's public recruiting profile. A separate family workspace for running the outreach itself. Every target school, coach contact, conversation, and next step lives in one Google-authenticated place, organized from first email to commitment. Because it is invite-only, here is a walkthrough of what it does.

Actual dashboard captured locally on September 7, 2026, with an empty database. No coach contacts or recruiting conversations are loaded.

  • Private, family-only access (Google sign-in)
  • School & coach outreach pipeline
  • Conversation & questionnaire tracking
  • Next-step task management

College funding · Private · walkthrough

Scholarship Agent

A private family workspace with a background agent. It checks a registry of sponsors and foundations each day, reads each program's page, and compares the requirements with a stored student profile. It retains requirements only when it can quote the source. The walkthrough shows the workflow without exposing private account data.

Actual console captured locally on September 7, 2026, with an empty database and the background worker disconnected. No private applications are loaded.

  • Private, family-only access (passkey or Google)
  • Daily autonomous discovery across 65 sources
  • Evidence-backed eligibility screening
  • Inbox-driven status updates
  • Profile-grounded essay drafts, never auto-submitted

Experiments

Projects exploring personal AI systems, drafting workflows, and media authenticity.

Performance-review drafting · Local prototype · walkthrough

ReviewDraft

A local prototype for drafting staff performance reviews and self-assessments, with an editable document, a conversation panel, and supporting context.

Captured from the running local app on September 7, 2026, with an empty database and disconnected private sources. The form shows the app’s default review period.

  • Review and self-assessment flows
  • Editable drafting canvas
  • Supporting-context sidebar
  • Rating and narrative checks

AI agent system · Personal setup · documentation

Henry. Personal AI Operating System

A personal AI setup built on Hermes Agent, with scheduled automations, a knowledge graph, vector search, model routing, and institutional integrations.

  • 92 scheduled automations (September 2026 snapshot)
  • Multiple model routes
  • Software blueprint pipeline
  • Persistent working context

Media authenticity · Available online

Is This AI?

A lightweight media provenance triage app for uploaded images, uploaded videos, and media links. It separates deterministic watermark or provenance checks from heuristic AI-likelihood scoring so uncertain results are labeled honestly.

  • Image and video upload flow
  • Media link scoring
  • C2PA and generator metadata scan
  • Transparent evidence breakdown

Other projects are in progress.

I'm also working on software for education, productivity, and enterprise use. I'll add projects here when there is enough to document.

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