I build things. Including this page.
Fixed-price AI software, features and tools for tech companies — defined scope, fixed price, shipped in 4–6 weeks. Now grab a block.
↗ Everything here was built. This stack has real weight — throw it around.
Things I do well.
Five engagement shapes. Pick the one that matches your problem; I’ll tell you honestly if none of them fit.
Scope it. Build it. Ship it.
One scoping call, a fixed price, and working software in your codebase in weeks — not quarters. No retainers, no scope creep.
Scope
One call to get specific about the problem and what “done” looks like. Then a written fixed price — no hourly billing.
Build
A senior practitioner end-to-end on your feature, MVP or internal tool. Locked scope, changes negotiated in the open.
Ship
Working software handed over in 4–6 weeks. You accelerate; I move on to the next build.
I build things, not just decks.
The reason I take on so few engagements.
What I’m doing this month.
An honest log of what’s shipped, what’s building, and what I’m turning over. Updated when there’s something to say.
Finished a client build for a refrigerated trailer company. 50 years of paper process transformed into tablets and dashboards. The visible win is that the paper is gone and the office has a live picture instead of a day-old one. The quieter win is trust: the numbers are current, so people believe them, so they get used to make decisions instead of sitting in a drawer. I don't think this project is remarkable because of the technology. I think it's a good example of the kind of work that's easy to underrate — an unglamorous internal tool, scoped tightly, built to be reliable, shipped in weeks rather than quarters. Most businesses have a version of the paper time card somewhere. It's rarely the exciting problem. It's often the one worth fixing first.
Bogey Mates is now live and in public beta testing. After months of work, the golf social network is now live at www.bogeymates.com.au. The app is a social network for golfers to connect with friends, find new courses and play together. The app is free to use and is available on iOS and Android.
Built admin panel for office staff to get an operations overview of the business to make more informed decisions.
Bogey Mates — Built out Bogey Mates website and is now live at www.bogeymates.com.au
Bogey Mates — Finalised scoring data, course data and polygon mapping for Bogey Mates. Now in beta with testers.
BirdieBlast 1.2.0 — Built out the ability to add alignment to the square golf launch monitor connector and kids games software I open sourced.
Plans v0.12 — Built a proposals and forms section for the travel agent tool.
Built tool for workers to log time and sync with back of house staff to manage rosters and payroll.
Bogey Mates alpha shipped to four golf friends. Still working through getting lat/long gps data and tees for courses around Australia.
Three slots remaining for July–September. After that I’m heads-down on Plans for the rest of the year.
Pitched for work on a golf swing analysis tool using AI and Machine Vision technology.
Started Savora prototyping. Group payments are gnarlier than I remembered — that’s the point.
Notes from the workbench.
Field notes from the practice — build-in-public, client builds, and the occasional bit of theory.
Fifty years of paper, four weeks of build
For fifty years, a Melbourne manufacturer tracked its work on paper time cards and a spreadsheet that was always a day behind. A field report on replacing all of it — tablets on the workshop wall, a live office dashboard — in about four weeks.
Why I shifted from designing software to building it
The job most senior designers do in 2026 isn't designing software — it's coordinating the design of it. AI changed what I want to do for work. This is what re-energised me.
What I learned shipping four fixed-price AI builds in a year
A quiet pattern emerged: the projects that worked had one decision-maker, one outcome, and one deadline. Everything else is preamble.
Chris Jack.
Design and AI leader, Melbourne. StackCraft is the practice; the products are the long game.
I’m Chris. StackCraft is a deliberately small practice — a small number of fixed-price AI builds a year for tech companies that want a senior practitioner end-to-end on their feature, MVP, or internal tool. After AI tools drastically changed how we build software, I shifted from leading design work and teams to actually shipping product code again — the work I love and missed.
Outside the practice I’m building products under my own name: Plans (an AI itinerary tool for travel agents), Bogey Mates (group golf-trip organisation), Savora (group event funding), and BirdieBlast (open-source golf-simulator games I build with my kid). The practice and the products exist because building things is what I love and want to be doing.
Twenty years, listed.
Senior product-design roles at established Australian businesses. Listed as career history — none of them are StackCraft clients.