Uses

The gear, tools, and software I use daily. Updated occasionally as things change.

Current Hardware

Apple M2 Max Studio — Primary machine. Handles everything I throw at it.
Apple M3 Ultra Studio — Local LLM Inference Server (SSH access)
Apple Mac Mini M2 — Dedicated to running OpenClaw.
Apple Studio Display x2 — Dual monitor setup. Sharp, colour accurate, and pairs perfectly with the Studios.
Apple MacBook Pro M1 — Travel machine. Five years old and still going strong.
Apple iPad Pro & Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 — Tablets for reading, annotating, and quick tasks on the go.
Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max — Daily phone.
Apple Watch Ultra 2 — Notifications, workouts, and staying connected on the move.
Apple AirPods Pro 3, AirPods Max & HomePod — Sound setup across desk, travel, and home.
Apple iCloud 2TB, Oyen 4TB & Samsung T7 SSD — Backup strategy across cloud and local drives.
Meta Ray-Ban Wayfarer — Camera, mic, and speakers built into normal looking glasses. I use them with OpenClaw for hands free voice queries and quick photo capture while on the move. Gift from the lovely team at Rank Math.
Meta Quest 3 — VR headset for mixed reality and immersive demos. Also a generous gift from the team at Rank Math.
YubiKey 5C NFC — Hardware security key for two factor authentication. Phishing proof and works across USB C and NFC.

Apple Vision Pro — Spatial computing for immersive workflows. Not enough value for the price right now. Waiting for the second generation before committing.
MacBook Pro M5 — The M1 has earned its retirement. The M5's unified memory bump would make it a proper portable LLM machine.
NVIDIA DGX Spark — Desktop class AI supercomputer with 128GB unified memory. Local inference without compromise.
Apple Studio Display XDR — The Pro Display XDR but hopefully at a less offensive price point. Whenever Apple decides to ship it.

Keyword Insights — Keyword clustering and content brief generation. Co-founded this one.
Ahrefs — Backlink analysis, keyword research, and competitor tracking.
Screaming Frog — Technical SEO crawling and site auditing.
SEO Testing — Running controlled SEO split tests on live pages.
AlsoAsked — Visualising People Also Ask data for content planning.
PromptWatch — Monitoring AI generated answers and brand visibility.
Rank Math — On page SEO plugin for WordPress projects.
SEOGets — Check multiple Google Search Console properties at the same time. Very handy.

I also use many of the tools listed on my resources page.

Rowboat — Rowboat extracts context from my emails and meetings and turns it into long lived, editable Markdown notes. The goal is not to store everything, but to preserve the context that stays useful over time.
Pinecone — Vector database for semantic search and retrieval.
Manus AI — General purpose AI agent for autonomous research, data analysis, and complex multi step tasks.
OpenClaw — Runs on my Mac Mini M2. Anthropic Opus 4.6 as the primary model with MiniMax 2.5 as backup.