I build agentic systems, evaluate foundation models for Australian operating contexts, and make tools for creative work. The common thread is bounded systems, evidence, and keeping people in control.

Headless autonomous loops run on a Mac mini, with workers that produce, a supervisor that triages, and Signal for delivery. No dashboards or polling.

• supervisor: two-layer producer and verifier architecture. Workers write run files; a separate triage agent classifies them and signals only when something matters. It can integrate with any tool that writes to the filesystem, including Obsidian, CI, scrapers, and task managers.
• bullpen: profile-driven writing pipeline with bounded OpenCode stages, role-specific model routing, structural validation, and rollback on rejection. Optional Claude Code agents support a more flexible interactive workflow. The human editor controls publication.
• podcastindex-mcp-server: Podcast Index search, episode lookup, and feed discovery exposed as MCP tools.

Leaderboards are a starting point. I am interested in repeatable tests tied to local tasks, constraints, cost, and evidence.

• hexapla: early evaluation harness for running repeatable model tests, scoring outputs, and producing comparable result matrices.

I use AI and automation to help people inspect, transform, and finish work they already care about. The source material and creative decisions remain human. Bullpen covers the writing side; these projects cover music.

• asian-sentry-techniques: orchestration and composition notes from working in Logic Pro with foundation models. AI as co-composer, not autocomplete.
• music21-mcp: symbolic MIDI analysis and editing operations exposed through MCP, built on music21. It supports key and chord analysis, transposition, quantization, melody extraction, structural heuristics, and basic harmonization.
• preset-semantic: local-first semantic search for music-production presets across Helix, Arturia, and Decent Sampler. It turns musical descriptions into loadable preset candidates through a CLI or MCP tool.
• reascript-mcp: tools for reading REAPER project state and generating Lua ReaScripts for actions that can be checked inside REAPER.

I also build local-first utilities for narrow problems. dv-joiner sorts timestamped DV clips and creates grouped, deinterlaced H.264/AAC access copies with FFmpeg. The original DV files remain the preservation masters.

I write about AI deployment in Australian regulated sectors, sovereign infrastructure, and building with agents at craiglawton.com. I am AWS-affiliated; the writing is personal.

• Blog: craiglawton.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/craiglawton
• Podcast: Building a Better Geek