Salt Bay Labs is my side project and personal lab — a place to build small, useful tools, test ideas, and solve practical problems I run into through work, data, compliance, and everyday life here in The Villages.
I've spent years working around complex data, compliance, retailer programs, operations, and the messy handoffs that come with real work. Salt Bay Labs is where I can experiment with tools and ideas that make those problems a little easier to handle.
Notice the problem. Build something useful. Keep it simple.
That's the lane: practical software, grounded in real experience, built at a human scale.A home base for the next chapter — work, life, golf carts, house projects, and the kind of everyday problems that spark useful ideas.
Built by someone who has lived deadlines, exceptions, customer pressure, audits, spreadsheets, and the need to get clean answers quickly.
This is being built carefully alongside my full-time work — thoughtful, practical, and not pretending to be bigger than it is.
Some ideas may become tools. Some may stay experiments. The common thread is solving problems in a practical way.
These tools are simple by design: paste data, upload a file, get clean output. They are meant to solve specific problems without turning the task into a project.
Look up product GTINs one at a time, paste a list, or drop in a file. Results come back as clean Excel output.
Search and validate National Drug Codes quickly, with export-ready results for the work that needs to move.
Compress and process PDFs in the browser. Drop in a file, get a cleaner result, keep rolling.
Match products to marketplace classifications and reduce manual category hunting.
A central portal for monitoring Salt Bay Labs tools and keeping related work in one place.
Pharmaceutical hazmat lookup for human Rx, OTC, and veterinary drugs — waste codes and DOT transportation data in one place.
Some projects are live tools. Others are early ideas, experiments, or things I'm still thinking through. I'd rather describe them honestly than make them sound finished before they are.
A cart-friendly navigation concept for The Villages — focused on routes, town squares, neighborhoods, gates, tunnels, and the places people actually drive to by cart.
A broader local-life concept for organizing the useful stuff: home projects, cart routes, local notes, favorite places, and practical tools for living here.
Experiments around product classification, human review, rules, and AI support — aimed at reducing repetitive work while keeping judgment in the process.
Salt Bay Labs is intentionally modest. It is not a replacement for my full-time work, and it is not trying to be a big loud software company. It is a place to explore useful ideas, build small tools, and learn by doing.
Years inside enterprise compliance, retailer data, and operations — learning where work gets harder than it needs to be.
Building focused utilities around GTINs, NDCs, PDFs, classifications, data cleanup, and other practical workflows.
Exploring ideas that connect professional experience with daily life in The Villages — including navigation, routing, and community-focused tools.
The tool should make the task easier. Clear input, clear output, and as little extra work as possible.
Real work still runs through Excel, CSVs, PDFs, exports, and emails. Good tools should meet people where they actually work.
A small utility that saves time is worth building, even if it never becomes a big platform.
Compliance data issue, messy file workflow, retailer product data challenge, Villages idea, or something practical worth kicking around — send it over.