Hi, I'm Colin.
I build in the open.

His day job is Senior Manager, CRM at Youth Enrichment Brands, where he is the primary builder of cross-brand data infrastructure on HubSpot: custom apps for lead management, per-brand lifecycle email tooling, and integrations to FranConnect, Pike13, and the data warehouse. Four franchise brands run on four portals and one architecture, reported at board level, and he has spoken at INBOUND. He learned CRM at Viewrail, moving from sales operations specialist in 2021 to regional manager to CRM lead, and started writing specs instead of tickets in April 2024. He never went back.

His open-source center of gravity is OpenClaw, a personal AI assistant that runs on any OS and platform, where he is a volunteer maintainer. He reviews PRs, onboards contributors, and built the QA Lab evidence gallery, script-backed scenarios, and CI smoke profile the project runs on. He has 29 PRs into openclaw/openclaw across iOS, Android, macOS, web, Slack, Discord, and the plugin runtime, part of 82+ merged PRs across OpenClaw and the GSD ecosystem. On the GSD side, he was community admin and maintainer on the 64k-star get-shit-done before helping steward it into the Open GSD org, where he maintains gsd-core, gsd-pi, and gsd-browser, including 18 PRs into gsd-browser, a Rust browser-automation CLI with a full MCP server.

His open PR queue is active. In OpenClaw he is fixing macOS app builds with Xcode 27, keeping sent media visible in native chat history, preserving structured follow-ups across queued iOS delivery, and drafting a guarded autopilot for the workboard. He also landed a fix in openclaw for the Gateway exiting on resume when a queued cron run hits a storage error. This week he is pushing hardest to Solvely-Colin/aidnd, with 33 pushes in the last seven days, including a change that restarts the game server container when a deploy brings a new image, merges into the character sheet, player journal, and world memory, and a three-column desktop layout.

At Solvely, his lab, the experiments live: Quorum, a multi-model deliberation framework; SpecIt, one interview that becomes one spec; and ClawOS, an experimental Arch-based OS with OpenClaw as its agent interface, which he pushed to as recently as October 28. This site, colin.place, is a playground where ideas get built first, planned, written, tested, and deployed by his own agent sessions. Colin approves what ships. This About was written by a model reading his live GitHub data.