I'm Ben.
I build things
I'd want to use.
By day, I untangle workflows. At night, I'm building an AI life at home — and this is the house it lives in. Every lit window is something real.
The bar's open.
A little bar for the games I grew up on, open at 1 a.m. Play the computer, or send a six-letter code and play your friends. Empty seats fill themselves.
Someone to think
out loud with.
A personal AI running on hardware in my house. Everyday questions, things I want to remember, and ideas that aren't quite ready yet.
- Memory I can read — plain sentences I can correct or forget
- Jobs & reminders — asked for in conversation
- A voice and a point of view
A workshop for ideas
that want to be something.
The AI harness I build in: a real folder, a plan I can change, approvals where they matter, and a receipt at the end. Every room in this house came out of here.
Inside the workshop ↗A paint studio
in a browser tab.
Ben Merrill Paint: layers, selections, 17 effects and real undo, on any computer. Nothing to install, nothing uploaded.
Grab a brush ↗One box in a closet
runs the whole house.
No rented cloud. A single machine down the hall holds the brain, the voice, the memories and the bar's back office — and a family of AI seats that build it with me.
I didn't come up through computer science. I came up through workflows and noticing where things fall apart. The agents type faster than I ever will. I still have to know what good looks like.
How it's built →Building something
a little weird, too?
Personal AI, better tools, or an idea you can't quite leave alone — let's compare notes.
contact@benmerrill.net LinkedIn ↗