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Projects · The workshop Things in various states of real

Stuff that isn’t finished yet.

Some of it is a business. Some of it is a house. Some of it is a napkin that says “could this fucking work?”

This is what’s occupying my brain right now. I don’t keep a strict border between business, technology, family, property, food, vehicles and random ideas. If something interests me long enough, I start figuring out how it would work.

Some of this will turn into something. Some of it will die on the bench. Nothing here is pretending to be further along than it is.

Scaffolding · Under construction

You are standing in one.

JeremySwink.com is one of the projects. It’s being rebuilt into an interactive autobiography, a personal headquarters and a living archive, all at once.

So right now you’re inside the scaffolding. If a wall looks unfinished, it probably is.

jeremyswink.com/projects
  • HomeRebuilt
  • StoryRebuilt
  • WorkRebuilt
  • ProjectsYou are here
  • The restGetting there

Ink · Planning for real

The Swink Family Estate. A home we’ll grow old in.

A long-term family project in the Philippines, planned around how we’ll actually live there. Not a real-estate business. Not construction-ready. Land is coming together in phases.

The rule

Don’t just build the thing. Think about what happens when something breaks ten years from now.

Sheet A · Land, in phasesNot to scale
Site plan. One lot of about 330 square meters is under contract. Two adjacent lots are intended for the estate but their contracts are not executed. Pencil notes on the far lot sketch a possible farm: chickens, rabbits, maybe a horse. Two dogs are on the first lot. LOT 1 ≈ 330+ M² UNDER CONTRACT ONE STORY 2 DOGS LOT 2 LOT 3 NOT UNDER CONTRACT YET farm, maybe? chickens, rabbits horse?? N PHASED · ONLY LOT 1 IS UNDER CONTRACT
  • Lot 1, roughly 330+ m², is under contract. That part is real.
  • Two adjacent lots are intended for the estate. Not guaranteed until their contracts are executed.
  • If enough land comes together: animals with room to actually move. Breeding pairs of chickens and rabbits to start. Maybe a horse, if one can realistically be found.
Sheet B · Section through the houseHow I think about outlets
Cross-section of a single-story house on a raised floor with an accessible crawl space, conduit in the walls, solar on the roof, cameras, drainage and typhoon rain. Numbered notes are listed below the drawing. “Put some outlets in.” ACCESSIBLE CRAWL SPACE OFFICE OWNER SUITE LIVING 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

That’s it. That’s the whole plan.

  1. 1Single story. Everything for daily life on the main level. Aging in place.
  2. 2Owner suite.
  3. 3My office, near the owner suite, with enough separation for quiet work.
  4. 4Whole-house centralized hot water.
  5. 5Properly grounded outlets. All of them.
  6. 6Conduit for power, network and security, so wiring can be repaired or upgraded later.
  7. 7Pull boxes and service loops. Future me will want the slack.
  8. 8Network infrastructure, with separation.
  9. 9Security and camera infrastructure.
  10. 10Solar and control infrastructure.
  11. 11Accessible crawl space and service routes, for inspection and maintenance.
  12. 12Drainage built for typhoon-driven rain.
  13. 13Humidity, termites and pests. Plan for all three.
  14. 14Flooding.
  15. 15Room to expand. Maintainable for decades.

A normal person says, “We’ll put outlets in.” I start thinking about grounding, conduit, pull boxes and inspection access under the house.

None of this is built. It’s planning, sheet by sheet, while the land comes together. I’d rather argue with a drawing now than with a wall later.

Pencil · Exploring, testing pieces

A company with AI departments.

A normal person thinks, “AI could help my business.” I started drawing an org chart. Not one chatbot. Roles, departments and handoffs, with a human at the top.

MeFounder · Director · Human
COODirector-style agent
SalesAgent
OperationsAgent
MarketingAgent

Being explored with n8n GoHighLevel

  • Can AI actually help operate parts of a business?
  • Can agents hand work from one department to the next?
  • Can it do useful work, not just generate text?
  • Can it create leverage without creating another mess someone has to babysit?

It’s an experiment. Not a finished autonomous company. Nobody has been replaced by a robot, including me.

Napkin · Could this work?

The napkin pile. Could this fucking work?

Ideas I can’t stop thinking about. No capital, no company, no promises. Just a problem I keep noticing and a question I keep asking.

Napkin · Research only

Business debt that eats the business.

I keep seeing service businesses with real revenue trapped by Merchant Cash Advances. Daily or weekly withdrawals chew through the cash flow.

So they take another advance to survive the first one. Then it gets worse.

Napkin sketch: a cash balance chipped down by daily withdrawals, topped up by a second advance, then chipped down faster. cash advance #2, to pay advance #1 daily withdrawals time →

Could a properly capitalized financing model restructure that into something with a payment a viable business can actually live with? Give it room to breathe?

Not a lender. Don’t have the capital. Not an offer.
A problem I noticed, and a question.

  • Napkin

    Contracting in the Philippines? Would need an appropriately structured Philippine business. Curious. Exploring. Nothing is operating.

  • In use

    The U.S. side is real. Jeremy Allen Swink, LLC is registered for U.S. federal contracting. That lives on the Work page.

  • Napkin

    Unnamed. Not everything on the bench gets a name. Some of it shouldn’t.

Not business projects

Garage. Crate. Kitchen.

Same brain, different rooms. I get interested in something, then I start building a system around it.

Parking, three spotsOnly one is filled

  • In use

    NMAX

    The one I actually have.

  • Napkin · Considered

    XMAX

    Considered. Not bought. Dashed lines for a reason.

  • Napkin · Family idea

    Piaggio

    A family vehicle idea. How would it actually fit daily family life?

Scaffolding · Under construction

The DJ library

I rebuilt the Swink Entertainment website. Now I’m rebuilding and organizing the music library and the rest of the entertainment setup.

swinkentertainment.com

Scaffolding · Slowly

The kitchen

I like cooking, and learning food. The kitchen setup is getting better, slowly.

I keep my favorite recipes. Someday they might become a printable collection. That part is still a napkin.

Also on the bench, frequently.

No names, no stages. Just what tends to be lying around.

  • Websites
  • CRM architecture
  • GoHighLevel workflows
  • Automations
  • Internal tools
  • AI systems
  • Operational docs
  • Business concepts
  • Family plans
  • Gov’t opportunities
  • Media projects
  • Property ideas
  • Random systems that solve annoyingly specific problems

A normal person

Me

“We’ll put outlets in the house.”

Grounding, conduit, pull boxes, service loops, network separation, inspection access.

Buys a file box.

Buys ten. Reorganizes the room.

“AI could help my business.”

Draws an AI org chart.

Enjoys a good meal.

Keeps the favorites. Might make them printable someday.

Closing up the shop.

Lights off. Everything stays exactly where it is: half-drawn, half-built, half-sorted.

By tomorrow there will probably be three more ideas on a napkin somewhere. Some of these will become real. Some won’t. I’ll find out the same way I always do. By working on them.

Napkin · Tomorrow

Idea

Why

What breaks

Could this work?

Where these show up as they change The Swink Chapters → The notebook, kept as things happen.

Write to me

[email protected]

It’s — in Zamboanga City. If I don’t answer right away, I might be asleep.

Still writing the story.

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